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parents just don't understand
My mom knows the ideas we're going with for our nursery, depending on the sex. We're thinking either jungle for a boy or a light pink/romantic/french inspired room for a girl.
So my mom says that she has the perfect painting for our nursery. It hung in my dad's nursery as well as my own, so it's an antique.
The painting is of a baby sleeping, just from the shoulder up and you can see a little bit of a blanket. It's not watercolors, but think soft like that. The matting is a very light green and it has a gold frame. It's pretty, just really NMS.
Now I get that this is special to her and my dad, but really? It just doesn't go! Plus, DH thinks it's kind of weird to have a painting of a random baby in our nursery. He's like "do your parents realize that we could just take a picture of our own baby and put it up?"
I think we're going to have to put it up though. At lease when my parents are here.
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I can see why it's special to them.
I know they live far away, but would they consider having a special room in the house for when you guys travel to them and visit? Maybe they could put it up there to be a special reminder....
Is there any where else you could put it?
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Now I get that this is special to her and my dad, but really? It just doesn't go! Plus, DH thinks it's kind of weird to have a painting of a random baby in our nursery. He's like "do your parents realize that we could just take a picture of our own baby and put it up?"
This made me LOL. And it's pretty much what I was thinking. Creepy stranger baby is there when you sleep...
Me three with this. Sometimes I think people are doing something special and they don't realize its not really your taste or vision.
I told my mom and all she said was "it will go." So that kind of means "hang it up or else!" Lol!
They already spent the money to ship it to us, so it'll stay here and I'll probably put it up because I'm a good daughter like that. Boo.
*Oh, and, this is a theme for them. They have a painting of a sailor above their fireplace. We don't know who he is and it's definitely not a family member. My Dad's great great Grandpa was the captain of a whaling ship, but we do have framed photos of him. So I don't know why they're glorifying some random person.
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It is kind of weird to have a painting of a random baby in the nursery. I didn't have one as a baby, but my grandma gave my sister and me a painting (print) of a little girl to hang in our room when we were young. I'm pretty sure it was donated to Good Will, and someone bought it for the frame...
I don't know how I'd handle it if Mom wanted to give us a family heirloom antique type painting that we didn't want. Something like that probably has a lot of emotions attached to it, at least in my family. TBH, I would put it up.
I think I actually know what you're talking about for pictures, because my mother has a set that's very similar to what you described, and she's saving them for me.
I think I would be the good daughter and just hung it up when they came if it doesn't match your theme.
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Does the baby room have a closet that it can hang nicely in there? That way you can say, "see momma, I see this lovely painting everyday I pick an outfit for LO"
i would hang it up, too. we definitely have stuff in our house was given to us and i feel the need to display.
would it be better in the hallway near the baby's room? or in your bedroom? i'm sure she wouldn't be offended if it wasn't actually in the nursery. but i was given a mommy and baby bear figurine, and a daddy and baby bear figurine from my MIL that will be put in the nursery even though we have a fish theme going. oh well.