Pen, I just read your post above and I think that’s a very good idea. Unfortunately I gave DIL a lot of beautiful things that I had made and collected for GD before GD was born, I have no idea what she did with most of it, never seen them, one time I asked DS and he said THEY were keeping it in a box to show GD when she was older.
I was a total fool by thinking DS wouldn’t do that to us, we had a room in our house for GD that everyone thought was a dream, fit for a princess, she slept there a few times but in her own ugly playpen that they still bring when they come, I went as far as to decorate it on Christmas with a pink table-top Christmas tree, a princess stocking, Santa, yes, I exaggerate, I go all out in everything I do, I think DIL liked it when she first saw it but won’t give me the satisfaction of saying it, maybe because her mother is not into these things and she has to be loyal to her mother, whatever. I do take pictures of everything that I do for GD now and keep them in a photo album that I made for her, just recently we put a small playground for her in our backyard that she hasn’t seen yet, DS said he was going to bring her sometime this month. DS seems happy when we do things for GD but it wears out fast once he tells DIL.
We think that someday when we have other GC from our other kids, DS will be jealous when he sees all that we’ll do for them that we cannot do for his children then he’ll complain.
