Strollerderby

My father-in-law called to inform us that he would be arriving a day earlier and that he was actually driving down (lives 9 hrs away), making a stop at Grandma's house.

He told my husband that he had gotten my mother-in-law a GPS for mother's day and was using it for the trip to "try it out".

My first thought was "why doesn't he just get his name put on it" thinking also of that Simpsons episode.

Now who the heck "tries out" someone else's gift. I could understand if he installed it for her or activated a service, etc., but that's basically USING the gift before giving it.

I wish my husband had said something because he knew there was something wrong with that.

When my father-in-law arrived, my husband was upstairs, so it was just us talking and he pulls out the portable GPS and says "look at the new toy I got".

Yeah. That's what I thought.

(I'm not sure whether he's still going to give it to her or has decided to keep it for himself.)

I am really against Mother's Day.  You never get what you really want... which is a cleaned up  house, good kids, (invisible husband) and to be able to lay around the entire day with no one to bother you.

Hey Grammy, that's *exactly* what we give my mom every year.  Every year I find a way to get her out of the house the Saturday of Mother's Day weekend (usually dad takes her to dinner and a movie) and my brothers and I go to town cleaning the house.  SCRUBBING every corner of it, doing any and all laundry, changing all the sheets on the beds, everything we can possibly clean we do.  Then my parents come home from dinner and a movie to a clean house, mom sleeps in and my brothers and I make a huge family brunch for everyone (and, duh, we clean up after).  We give her a couple of gifts and spend the rest of the day hanging around, watching a movie or playing a board game if it's bad weather, or going for a walk/playing in the yard if it's nice.