Oh dear, Spanna hope you had a good holiday despite the strops. Totally not worth buying perfume duty free anyway, and I would be the same re: gummy bear outrage so don't feel like a bad parent. It amazes me sometimes how my DD can be so rude to me seconds after I've bought her something - she switches on the smile when she's getting yet more clothes and make up and then when we get home and I ask her to take the carrier bags out of the hall and put the new things away on hangers I get 'the atttitude'. I often find myself using the 'if I'd spoken to my mother that way....' rant which makes me sound about 90 and makes my mum sound like an ogre, which she totally wasn't and I suspect know I was a vile teenager myself. Often wish my mum were still around so I can apologise. Fast forward 25 years or so when DD has a teenage girl of her own and I just hope I won't be too senile to gloat!
Hope you are all having a good bank holiday weekend (hate them personally). Kids both out ATM and happily so is WB. SIL has had a strop today as WB didn't ring her about DS's GCSE results. We don't often talk to her anyway (I try not to average more than 3 times a year) but she likes everything to be about her and was pissed off that other family members were aware of it first (only cos they saw a vague congratulations on my FB page as I felt left out being the only mother of a Year 11 child not to do one! We are not overly soppy, plus I did congratulate him to his face as he actually lives in my house 
) However, not being phoned doesn't sit with her (false and ludicrous) self image of being the family matriarch. Now she wants us all to go out for a meal on Tuesday (her, us, MIL, old aunt) to celebrate - no doubt so she can put it on Facebook for all the other cousins who probably don't give it a second thought. Honestly, it's hardly a treat for a teenage boy who probably has something way more fun planned. It's also 'in honour' of me and WBs wedding anniversary (which those who know me will realise is not a huge cause of celebration and untramelled joy for me anyway, but even if it were it has F all to do with her). I really, really do not want to do this. In fact I am utterly pissed off. I bought champagne to toast DS, got him an XBox game and he was made up and has been out with his mates ever since. Job done.
Also despite it being mis-labelled as a 'treat' (boke) for us she's not even offering to pay despite being filthy rich on her ex-husband's money and I actually feel I am being made to go through with a punishing ritual which is taking the shine off my happiness at the lazy sod doing so unexpectedly well 
God I can't wait to be in full time work again! Off to look at job advertisements which promise long hours and nights away in hotels!!!!
Well done to all of you moderators and abstainers out there. Sorry not to namecheck - oh no, they are heading back up the path!!!! Over and out!