A while ago, it was one of my children's birthdays and I had some cards on display.
I always display them for a few days and then file them away. Eventually they get lost in the house and some get thrown out.
Mil was looking at the cards and I said that I do love cards but also don't like them, because it makes me sad to throw them away. I'm not British, neither is MIL and in our cultures, cards aren't a big thing.
MIL said she understood what I meant and that she also had to get used to the card thing in this country when she moved here.
She seemed a bit miffed though when I said I throw them away and said I should keep the ones she and her children ( aunts and uncles to my kids ) give them, for when they grow up.
Then a few weeks later she was at my house for some reason, I can't remember why and I had already got rid of the cards, but had stacked some of them away in some obscure cupboard.
When I came back, she had taken the cards that she and her children had given out of the stack and put them on display. I thought that was really really strange and kind of like a message or something. There were a good 20 cards in the stack.
Anyway, recently it's been another birthday and my SIL gave a card of course and when I read the inside it said ' I hope you'll read this card when you're older '... or something to that effect.
Am I being paranoid that she's spoken to MIL and they're miffed that I have thrown some of their cards away for the children ?
I have some knocking around but I definitely haven't made some sort of memory box of cards from auntie and grandma.