God how I have grown to hate parts of Chrustmas. Use to be one if my absolute favorite holidays. Over the past 8-9 years I've learned that it's become a game with the skids who's house is better. They really make out well bc BM has open house on x-mass eve & all relatives ( including their stepdads family) and everyone gives them gifts. Then on chrustmas they get gifts from BM & stepdad, then come over to our house & get our gifts. Must be nice. Every year I have to hear about what great gift aunt so and so got them, or what mom got them. They always find the perfect time to say it too, like when they are opening up one if our gifts. Without acknowledging what we got , they say, oh did I tell u I got such & such??! This year SS14 dud not give us a list & we ask him multiple times if he might like certain items & he just said na, I don't really want / need that. So come to find out he gave the list to his mom & her family. The entire list. So we gave an educated guess on items he may like and the rest of the money went to gift cards. Well he didn't give a crap about the gifts we bought but dud say thank you and all that but just left them on the floor and proceeded to pace the house & ask when we was going back home. Sorry if we didn't get you a new flat screen tv like your mom did. I refuse to play this game any more. Also so nice how the skids came over with 1 little gift for me & 10 for DH. The one gift was from SS18 and DH told him to get it SS14 didn't even get me a gift but just put his name on one. Also I do all the shopping with SS14 for DH for b-days & fathers day. But for some reason he wanted to go with mommy to get gift for DH. I still don't understand why SS18 who had a job & car can't take him shipping for dad. I really don't like DH's ex wife to be buying gifts for him. But whatever. Hopefully skids will b leaving soon & DH and I can have a nice christmas together - what's left of it anyway.