Since i have had dd, mil keeps off loading lots of stuff on me and I just can't make head nor tail of it.
A bit of background, mil get on ok, never had any cross words or major fallings out, but we aren't close. She can be quite a cold person and excludes me from most family related stuff. Having been with dh for over a decade I am used to it.
When we announced our pregnancy, mil gave me dh baby blanket for our DD. I did find it a little strange, as it seemed so sentimental, but I accepted it graciously but didn't actually use it. I didn't want DD to be sick on something that to me is very special, so I have just stored it away safely.
Since DD has been birn, every time we see mil she gives me more of dh baby things. I now have:
- every single baby photo, plus many other old family photos shoved in big envelope.
- lots of old school books
- his first moments baby book
- cross stitich pictures with his name and dob
This is just to name a few.
All of this stuff to me is very sentimental, and I just don't understand why I'm being given it. Why doesn't she want it? When I asked about the baby photos she actually told me that she had thrown some away as "you can only have so many pictures with him covered in chocolate".
Is this strange? Aibu to tell her I don't want anymore stuff and ask her why she doesn't want it?
Everything she has given me has been stored away so that it doesn't get lost or damaged, but I just don't get it?!
Can anyone figure this out?