Originally Posted By: lizzy
Funny how you say your wife just won't pick up the stuff. I have always done all of the stuff. I even buy and wrap a gift for myself from "Santa". I always get what I want! I hung up a stocking for H too and Santa will fill it and leave him a gift. H wanted to do things the way we always do as far as gifts.


W's Christmas spirit was seriously waining this holiday - She didn't even care enough to put something in D's stocking from her. She just seems really unhappy right now.

My stocking is still totally empty \:\(

Originally Posted By: lizzy

I am hoping that you haven't posted this evening because W is still there. If she didn't stay, I'm sorry. I know I was still hoping today that H would change his mind.


W didn't want to stay the night (said it was too much hassle to bring over her crap to do her hair in the morning - whatever...), but we went out for dinner with D which was nice. We ended up stopping by W's house because she forgot pretty much everything she was supposed to bring; as usual. Got to my house, put D in her Christmas jammies and played for a bit until she was ready for bed.

We put 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' on TV and I put together my gift for D while W wrapped up the gifts she got for me and her family today. When she got here earlier she pretty much freaked out when she saw how much stuff was under the tree - Says I went "all out" \:\) She apologized later that she didn't contribute much because she was so broke right now. I told her it didn't matter and that she didn't have to buy me anything if she couldn't afford it. She still spent a couple of hundred bucks on a camera for me (she basically told me what she got), and a bunch of little things for D. She wrote on the label for my gift "To Daddy. From D and Mommy". She knows I really want a camera because since the bomb I've hardly taken any pictures of D - Lots of friends and family have commented that they want new pictures of D and haven't got any.

W left with the usual hug/kiss/ILY, but she just seemed to have the wind out of her sails tonight. Sometimes she is chatty and interested in what is going on, even if she is depressed, but tonight she didn't hardly say a word. On IM earlier today I just got one word answers from her on pretty much everything.

I've not added it up, but I think I've spent close to five grand this Christmas, including a few non-gift expenses. D has a huge stocking full of stuff (although she stole a stuffy out of the top when she came with D tonight) and W has a stack of really nice things. At the bottom of her pile is an Apple Mac laptop that she has been wanting for two years but we never had the spare money for it.

I have a card here for W - It's just a funny one that doesn't have any H/W reference, but I'm trying to find something nice to write in it. Any ideas? It's in her stocking, but I didn't stick the envelope down yet \:\)

W is supposed to come over in the morning to open gifts with D and I, then we're spending the day together - We'll head over to her parents mid-afternoon after D has had a nap for gifts and dinner.