Easter wishes

[Luxme]

I've sent my niece and nephew an easter egg/gift and a card every year for the past 5 years. i sent this years and got a 'thanks for the parcel' which I normally get.

However this year, we also have a child (11 months) and they haven't even bothered to send her a card or contact her. Its not a money issue at all.

AIBU- to be a bit peeved and AIBU to not send the kids anything next year as perhaps they don't want to do easter wishes? Or am I being a bit petty/hormonal? Im only copying what my uncle and auntie used to do every year.

Dunno ... some people wouldn't send a baby chocolate, and I think that's fairly normal. But I think if next year they're still not reciprocating it might be time to ask your sibling if he/she wants to keep this up as a tradition, or not.

Im not sure if they are really into gift giving. DD's christmas presents arrived from amazon unwrapped with an email from SIL asking us to wrap them for DD. Though we were late one year with a birthday present for DN and I got an email asking where it was!

Think I'll just sent a card next year.

Part of me doesn't want their kids to lose out though!

Yeah, it's difficult because presumably they're now old enough to notice if you don't send it.

I judge your brother a bit, actually. Especially if you get email reminders! I'd raise it in a jokey way, I think. No sense feeling irritated and doing nothing.

I would carry on with your gift giving, to your niece/nephew, and ignore the fact that your brother seems to not bother about gifts.

I probably should, they are 5 and 7 so would probably notice not getting anything and then would wonder where the gifts are.

That said the youngest opened my DFIL's christmas gift this year, said she already had it and threw it on the floor!

I think that if you want to give presents to your niece and nephew and can afford to do so then you should, regardless of whether their parents reciprocate. I would treat your own child as well, of course.