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“But Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa!”
My husband’s family celebrates Christmas twice a year. The weekend before Christmas everyone gathers at his grandparent’s house, exchanges presents and eats dinner. Then on actual Christmas, we do an ‘immediate family only’ gift exchange, drive to his Uncle’s house and eat dinner again. The reason behind all of this is completely appalling:
Simply put, my oldest niece is a spoiled brat.
My oldest niece is living proof that materialism warps children. She’s been plowed with so many presents over the years that she has piles of crap in the basement she’s never even opened. Every Christmas my in laws scour the stores for the perfect present to impress Her Royal Highness with only to earn an eye roll and a shrug for their trouble. I mean, you may have bought her the hippest CD on the market (according to the salesperson at Best Buy), but her parents just gave her a Karaoke machine, diamond earrings, a Sidekick and a laptop. How do you compete with that?
Instead of teaching her how to accept a gift graciously, the family decided to orchestrate an entirely separate ‘early’ Christmas where everyone has an equal shot at impressing her without competition from her parents.
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