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1 hour ago, johnhugh said:

Sort of a nice idea, but I’ve often thought of gift vouchers / cards being lazy presents. Oh I forgot, Teri is lazy. So the grandsons are not allowed to do art and craft I take it.

So going to McDonald’s, how do they explain to the nieces that Lolly the fucking clown is a girl clown and Ronald McDonald is a boy clown? Oh yes just extend the length of Lolly’s skirt.

In a normal world, it's a nice idea. We used to do stuff like that with my nieces & nephews when they were little - instead of gifts, experiences. Gift cards & a shopping day at the mall, or Fun World (bouncy houses, games - think over sized Chuckee Cheese), Hockey games - - whatever they were interested in at the time. They were all so damn spoiled when it came to things, I stopped with toys & clothes once they were old enough to ask for them. 

But, in Maxhell - - first, apparently they think it's some ingenious idea that they had. They don't know how the rest of the world functions so each girl picking out what they wanted to buy seems novel to them. And of course it had to be "practical". Because why give children an experience that is fun for them just because it's fun? Finally, Mary & Anna went along - those poor girls have no life outside co-parenting their nieces & nephews. I'd like to think it's nice to be so close but in Maxhell, it's just not a natural emotional bond. 

Even though it's practical and the kids were with their aunts & grandma, like always, I do hope they enjoyed it for the sake of it & chose to purchase something they truly wanted with no religious or control caveats. 

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1 hour ago, anjulibai said:

The gift from Teri and Steve included a shopping trip with Teri and.....Anna and Mary? Uh, why?

Steve, go shopping with your granddaughters!

Not having to spend time with Coward Steve is a present in itself.

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50 minutes ago, fundiefan said:

In a normal world, it's a nice idea. We used to do stuff like that with my nieces & nephews when they were little - instead of gifts, experiences. Gift cards & a shopping day at the mall, or Fun World (bouncy houses, games - think over sized Chuckee Cheese), Hockey games - - whatever they were interested in at the time. They were all so damn spoiled when it came to things, I stopped with toys & clothes once they were old enough to ask for them. 

But, in Maxhell - - first, apparently they think it's some ingenious idea that they had. They don't know how the rest of the world functions so each girl picking out what they wanted to buy seems novel to them. And of course it had to be "practical". Because why give children an experience that is fun for them just because it's fun? Finally, Mary & Anna went along - those poor girls have no life outside co-parenting their nieces & nephews. I'd like to think it's nice to be so close but in Maxhell, it's just not a natural emotional bond. 

Even though it's practical and the kids were with their aunts & grandma, like always, I do hope they enjoyed it for the sake of it & chose to purchase something they truly wanted with no religious or control caveats. 

I personally love experience gifts for my kids because they have too many damn toys. But yeah, it’s pretty hilarious how the Maxwell’s seem to think they come up with these ingenious ideas that everyone else does too. 

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I won't shit on them for the idea, either.  My 4 year old would have LOVED that gift.  I won't shit on McDonald's, either.  My kids get it so rarely that that would be a gift in itself.  I will shit on the fact that Anna and Mary went in Steve's place.  If the gift is from Teri and Steve, then Steve should be there (and if Anna and Mary want to go also, that's fine).  If Steve's calendar is so full that he can't make a particular day (I doubt it), then another day should have been chosen.  Is a craft shop that emasculating to him that he can't step foot in the door, even for his grandkids?

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3 hours ago, anjulibai said:

Steve, go shopping with your granddaughters!

No. He cannot. If he tries, his dick will shrivel up and fall off.

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I grew up wearing hand me downs from the neighbor girl and a girl from church. For birthdays my aunt, moms older sister, would take us to the movies. She would make a day of it. We would go out to eat, usually food court pizza at the mall, see the movie, then she would buy me some clothes. I loved getting to spend time with her. My birthday is in July so when I got older she started taking me to the Muny. 

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Real life Maxhell moment-today in my local paper's adevice column had a letter from a senior citizen who got over $400 in gift cards from her kids for Christmas which she appreciated but they were all from clothing stores.  She said she would rather have gift cards from American Express, Visa etc so she could use them to purchase a mattress and wondered what the best way was to approach the kids about it without sounding ungrateful.

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27 minutes ago, Hane said:

No. He cannot. If he tries, his dick will shrivel up and fall off.

Being it's so tiny, that won't take long.  And, it won't grow back, but he'll still be a prick.

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3 hours ago, anjulibai said:

The gift from Teri and Steve included a shopping trip with Teri and.....Anna and Mary? Uh, why?

 

Just once, I'd love to see a post with the ABC girls shopping and lunching with grandmas and aunties from both sides of the family--together.  It'll never happen, of course.   The Maher side of the family is never acknowledged which is a shame since I think some of them still live in the area. 

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2 hours ago, fundiefan said:

Finally, Mary & Anna went along - those poor girls have no life outside co-parenting their nieces & nephews. I'd like to think it's nice to be so close but in Maxhell, it's just not a natural emotional bond. 

They went along because Teri could not have coped with all three granddaughters  by herself.

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1 hour ago, Lgirlrocks said:

I grew up wearing hand me downs from the neighbor girl and a girl from church. For birthdays my aunt, moms older sister, would take us to the movies. She would make a day of it. We would go out to eat, usually food court pizza at the mall, see the movie, then she would buy me some clothes. I loved getting to spend time with her. My birthday is in July so when I got older she started taking me to the Muny. 

My dad would take me along on 3-hour car rides to meet his brother for a visit in a central location. Our families lived 6 hours away.  I remember all of those trips, it was such a special treat. 

@Lgirlrocks, “the Muny” as in “The Muny in Forest Park”? I loved that place!!!

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2 hours ago, socalrules said:

I don’t care that they went to Hobby Lobby and McDonald’s. All I want to know is WTH were Mary and Anna wearing in those pictures? 

What I noticed about the pictures was that two different kids were ID'd as Bethany:  one who I presume actually is Bethany (with Anna, I think)  and then a younger girl (with Mary) who reminds me a bit of Mary Ann Jackson of the old Our Gang shorts.

If you aren't familiar with Mary Ann, here's her Wikipedia page:

Mary Ann Jackson

She was one of my favorite members of Our Gang.

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8 hours ago, nastyhobbitses said:

The words "leash", "walk", and "eat" are taboo in my parents' home because if their dog hears them, he goes absolutely bugfuck. "Car" is borderline. Though I have to say, I love hearing the taptaptaptapTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPswisssshhhhhh of my parents' dog barreling into the mudroom so fast that he loses traction between the floor and his paws if he hears or sees someone getting their jacket on.

Do they spell out the words like "Did you e-a-t already?" 

My dog gets up from wherever she's lying down or sitting if she sees me get my coat or shoes on, gets animated and goes to the door with me. She's a Good Girl so when I tell her to sit and stay, she does :) I guess it also helps that she's learned to sit before I attach her leash.

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3 hours ago, Black Aliss said:

They went along because Teri could not have coped with all three granddaughters  by herself.

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Teri Maxwell says:

February 16, 2019 at 6:44 am

That sounds like a great birthday present from the sewing box to the shopping trip to pick out its contents. We sure enjoyed our shopping outing. Having my girls along allowed each of us to help one granddaughter with her purchase decisions. Each granddaughter already knew how she wanted to spend her gift card. Because Bethany wanted to learn to paint, Mary was her natural helper.

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9 hours ago, nastyhobbitses said:

The words "leash", "walk", and "eat" are taboo in my parents' home because if their dog hears them, he goes absolutely bugfuck. "Car" is borderline. Though I have to say, I love hearing the taptaptaptapTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPTAPswisssshhhhhh of my parents' dog barreling into the mudroom so fast that he loses traction between the floor and his paws if he hears or sees someone getting their jacket on. And then he gets comically despondent if we tell him that he can't come and has to be a good boy and watch the house. 

 

1 hour ago, nomoxian said:

Do they spell out the words like "Did you e-a-t already?" 

My dog gets up from wherever she's lying down or sitting if she sees me get my coat or shoes on, gets animated and goes to the door with me. She's a Good Girl so when I tell her to sit and stay, she does :) I guess it also helps that she's learned to sit before I attach her leash.

When I lived with my ex, @nastyhobbitses-style bedlam would ensue if the key words were said within range of dog ears.  So when it was just humans discussing, we wouldn't (couldn't!) say "walk the dog".  So instead we'd say "amble the pooch" -- ie, "what time do you want to amble the pooch today?"  But darn if the smart doggy didn't shortly figure out what THAT meant too!

With both dog and cats, I have always referred to their mealtime as "suppertime" (h/t Snoopy!).  This is just because I like the sound of it, but it also works out nicely because that's just not how human mealtimes are referred to around here, so it's less likely that anyone will inadvertently say the magic-bedlam word except when specifically calling the menagerie...

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2 hours ago, PennySycamore said:

What I noticed about the pictures was that two different kids were ID'd as Bethany:  one who I presume actually is Bethany (with Anna, I think)  and then a younger girl (with Mary) who reminds me a bit of Mary Ann Jackson of the old Our Gang shorts.

 

I think it was Tina (the youngest of the ABC girls) with Anna and Bethany (the older one) with Mary. 

My MIL used to do a similar gift with my kids when we lived closer to her. Only she took each grandchild for the whole day (or even for the night too) and they had a bunch of one on one time with grandma. She's take them shopping or do whatever fun experience they were planning and take them out to lunch/dinner. They'd go back to her house and bake cookies or have a movie night or even both. It just seems it would have been an ever more special gift if the girls had one on one time with Teri or *gasp* Teri and Steve. 

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I wonder if any of the grandkids or great grandkids get to sleep over at GiGi’s? I have a lot of special memories from sleeping at my grandmas apartment growing up. 

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I don’t mind gift cards, personally.

It would have been more special if the girls had gone out individually with Teri. But altogether, with Anna AND Mary too? 

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My quote wasn’t to slam the gift card idea - it was actually the opposite.  I didn’t know why they acted like it was such a clever idea.  I love gift cards for my kids.  I also agree that experiences are great gifts.  It was so Maxwell of them to act like this was such a novel idea. 

I have also taken to giving gift cards to my kids’ friends for birthdays.  Until these “LOL dolls” and other “mystery”* presents came out, it ensured they wouldn’t get lots of duplicated gifts or could save the gift cards for later in the year when their tastes changed.  

*For those without the younger crowd, these are things you can get in Target or other places where you open and get a variety of things. The risk of duplication is pretty low. 

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Man, if Anna or Mary ever leave the house, those kids will feel like they're losing a stepmom. 

On another note, why is Anna's hair always so crunchy? I always want to brush it out for her.

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On 2/16/2019 at 12:06 PM, PennySycamore said:

What I noticed about the pictures was that two different kids were ID'd as Bethany:  one who I presume actually is Bethany (with Anna, I think)  and then a younger girl (with Mary) who reminds me a bit of Mary Ann Jackson of the old Our Gang shorts.

If you aren't familiar with Mary Ann, here's her Wikipedia page:

Mary Ann Jackson

She was one of my favorite members of Our Gang.

Mary is with Bethany.  Anna is with Christina.  Expect a correction in 3...2...1...Hi Steve!

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