Colorado Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Oh sh!t. Spoiled Christmas.
SO's mom came by last night to drop off some gifts for the kids. We're having them over for Christmas Eve since we have the girls.
Can I just say OMG?!? We have a gate up around the tree. It is overflowing with gifts only for the kids. There are packages shoved under the tree and piled up all around against the gate. That doesn't include the little people track and garage for DS or anything from my parents. Where are we going to put all this crap? Three kids do not need this much stuff!! I'm not even kidding when I say each kid has at least 20 packages to open plus stockings 
(for those who aren't mathematically inclined that's 20x3= 60 gifts!)
Next year we definitely have to find a nice way to say don't buy so much for them...
Re: Oh sh!t. Spoiled Christmas.
If you find a way to convince grandparents not to buy your kid a ton of stuff let me know. I told both my mom and MIL to go light because DD doesn't need a thing and MIL was here last week and got her a ton of stuff and my mom informed me the other night she bought so much she started putting stuff to the side for her birthday in July.
It's just the nature of grandparents.
Growing Up Olson
I have the opposite problem. I go crazy for DD because I know she won't get much otherwise. My MIL doesn't buy her gifts, my family gives her money for college and a toy or two and she may get some small things from DH's family.
Last year I bought some stuff that was a little old for her and stashed it in the closet after she opened it. Then in june when she was getting bored I pulled out the new stuff. For us this works great because her bday is november. I'm sure you could do this and they wouldn't even notice.
Honestly, I've been totally Grinchy and told all of the grandparents in no uncertain terms that we only have so much space, and if the kids receive more than we can fit, we'll be donating those toys elsewhere and to please save us the hassle of driving that stuff around by not overbuying.
Seriously, take a hard line if you feel you need to. Plus it's harder to teach your kids not to be totally materialistic if they're inundated with too much sh!t.
<><
Tizzle 10/07 ~ Boppy 7/09 ~ Chicken 1/12
2014 Reading Goal: 85