LEFSElover
Executive Chef
I'll cut to the chase. My/our DIL and I aren't very close. There have been issues almost from the start. I’ve tried all ways to fix but have continued to fall short. I love her. That much is true.
My son and his wife are having a baby.
It'll be their first boy, due in March.
They have two little darling girls.
In an effort for me to appear the MIL she'd like to have, I sent a package with Halloween things for our DGD's [and stuff for her as she enjoys scrap booking]. In that same package I enclosed 3 little darling blue boy things, seeing as they're having a baby boy. This was all before Halloween. I even enclosed the receipt in case she didn't like what I'd gotten for the little guy, but how could she not, all 3 things were soft/cozy/baby blue, and right up her alley > pricey. They were no real big deal, but something to start a little collection for their soon to be son. They have all pink stuff obviously.
I never heard a thing from her.
I just wrote her an email about this. But, after reading it and it was not a big deal and kind of short, I didn't do it and thought I'd come in here and ask for much good advice on how to approach this subject.
They need me to baby-sit for a week in January, which I also brought up [but also isn't sent yet awaiting your words of wisdom].
I've sent her emails about the January thing, the dates she'd hope to have me there that would suit her needs most, and I've not heard. Our son is out of state until February in school which is why she needs me to help her with the little dolls.
Please advice me what to say to her in an email. Please help me with my words because this is a tender piece of very thin ice that I'm treading on. I don't want to seem like I'm demanding a thank you, but I would like an acknowledgement of receiving my gift, otherwise, I don't know it's not lost in the mail.
I'll thank you here for any and all advice.
LL
My son and his wife are having a baby.
It'll be their first boy, due in March.
They have two little darling girls.
In an effort for me to appear the MIL she'd like to have, I sent a package with Halloween things for our DGD's [and stuff for her as she enjoys scrap booking]. In that same package I enclosed 3 little darling blue boy things, seeing as they're having a baby boy. This was all before Halloween. I even enclosed the receipt in case she didn't like what I'd gotten for the little guy, but how could she not, all 3 things were soft/cozy/baby blue, and right up her alley > pricey. They were no real big deal, but something to start a little collection for their soon to be son. They have all pink stuff obviously.
I never heard a thing from her.
I just wrote her an email about this. But, after reading it and it was not a big deal and kind of short, I didn't do it and thought I'd come in here and ask for much good advice on how to approach this subject.
They need me to baby-sit for a week in January, which I also brought up [but also isn't sent yet awaiting your words of wisdom].
I've sent her emails about the January thing, the dates she'd hope to have me there that would suit her needs most, and I've not heard. Our son is out of state until February in school which is why she needs me to help her with the little dolls.
Please advice me what to say to her in an email. Please help me with my words because this is a tender piece of very thin ice that I'm treading on. I don't want to seem like I'm demanding a thank you, but I would like an acknowledgement of receiving my gift, otherwise, I don't know it's not lost in the mail.
I'll thank you here for any and all advice.
LL