So glad I'm not the only one who's less than grateful

The ones that are annoying me the most are: my mil who bought the kids kazoos to open before Christmas Eve dinner so "they'd have something to play with"

Then she also bought noisemakers for the dinner table - it actually ruined Christmas Eve for me - my DD 6 spent the evening making horrible, very loud noises and I kept asking her to stop only to have mil say "well I want her to play with it, that's why I bought them"
Other annoying presents: my mil who asked what to buy DS and I said the Melissa and Doug folding wooden castle. So what does she buy - a bigger, cheaper wooden castle with a million parts that has to be put together with slots and keeps falling apart. DS 4 loves it but now DH has to glue it together which makes it huge.
But the annopying gift of the year goes to my mother, who bought my DD6 a Nintendo Game Cube

. She was going to buy her art lessons and then calls 2 days before Christmas and says "don't be mad - I bought something" When I told her no, she promised to return it but then made a huge deal about it on Christmas so it's going in the basement until they're older. Why she wants to waste her money, I can't imagine.
I feel better already now that I vented - thanks
