If I throw the baby shower ....

[mom'sfolly]

You are hosting, you get to decide. Period!

I'm sorry, but a shower is a gift the host does for the showered person. The honored person might suggest people to invite, but that's about it. I know this is your daughter, but she is behaving in a spoiled, hateful way. Ask yourself this question, if you were hosting a party for anyone other than your daughter, would you allow them to tell you how, where and when to have it? Would they get to decide who to invite? What food to serve? Who not to invite?

Have the party you want for your daughter. She is lucky that she is so loved, and even luckier if someone else decides on a second shower.

 

[The Chicken People]

Camelot farms...She knows but she holds out hope that getting out from under MIL roof this month will help to cut the apron stings! I told her they were probably sewn strong by hand and will need more of a harder pull to seperate the threads!

I have put my foot down and behind it I put my DH! Her daddy sides with me! And she agrees! We host we choose! I spent day with both my daughters today and will be taking expecting daughter to finish her baby registry and to an appointment tomorrow! I cant wait until the 27 th when I get to help her move into her new apartment. Youngest daughter moves into hers around the 12 th! So I will be decorating a Baby and a toddlers room! ONe winnie the pooh and the other cars!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

You might suggest to your daughter that they not give keys to their new place to either set of parents--it needs to be their refuge. This may help with MIL issues.

 

[The Chicken People]

Yes I will suggest that! I don't personally want keys to any of my kids homes! If I needed in say as an emergency I would just break in! LOL! They would never press charges!

I would hope!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The reason I said to not give keys to either set of parents was to make it fair and unbiased. If one family gets keys and the other doesn't, no matter how sensible it may be or seem, it can be viewed as biased. The MIL sounds likeone to exploit that. I do not know or care if my kids' inlaws have keys, but I also do not feel like I am in competition with the other inlaws or my kids' spouses.