To think my Mil has some strange ways of thinking!

[clare458]

Yesterday we got Christmas cards from my mil. One card was for me and dh and my 3 ds had one each. But nothing for dd who is 7 months.

I know she's a baby and couldn't care less but mil could possibly have put her name in our card if she didn't want to pay for a card.

Yet for general friends etc she writes all the dc names in the card? I know worse things happen but it does annoy me!

No explaining the mystical Logic of the MiL.

I know, I do try to understand her ways but she is a real mystery!

That is a strange one! I can't wait to be a MIL one day, and do all sorts of bizarre things

Maybe she forgot to put it in the envelope, or perhaps if she sent them separately it has gotten lost or delayed.

Or perhaps, like me with at least one person every Christmas, she will believe she has given you all the cards and then find it somewhere in the house sometime in January when it's far too late to send it on.

My MIL does that too! One for me and one for DS (DH deceased).... two lots of postage and two personalised cards! Weird

She did the same thing when my ds had their first Christmas'???? I should have mentioned that.
She only lives down the road so hand delivered them. I appreciate it's very easy to forget someone when you've got lots of cards to post and write.
I did mention it when one of my ds was 'forgotten' one year and she told me to stop being so ridiculous because he's only a baby???

I am concerned at my (relative) normality as a MIL at times. I now realise that there's a positive conference worth of bonkers behaviour that I could indulge in...

But to the subject in question, it does sound most peculiar to leave one child in a family out of the card giving. That your dd is 7 months is immaterial, imho. Surely it should be all or none?

I can see her point really. Find it a bit odd that anyone would buy a baby a Christmas card. Im sure she'll buy her a nice present!

MiL sends my DC individual cards as she likes them to have something personal to open. I can see that a baby wouldn't be bothered about this so there would be no point.