Anything under 2,000. and please, have the jewelry suitable for a mother. imma whip up a lil sumthin, sumthin for her.

my mom’s birthday is later this week and i want to give her a homemade gift. anyone have any ideas?

Should adopters be made to financially compensate adoptees and their mothers when adoptions have been proven to cause emotional distress and suffering in their lives (which is basically all adoptions)?
Adoption is essentially buying a child, which is a business dealing, and if other businesses have to pay to compensate for their mistakes, why not adopters?

What amount would be fair?

For some reason this year I’m having a horrible time coming up with ideas for my mom’s Xmas gift? My brother and I and our significant others are going in on it together, but it’s up to me to go shopping. Looking to spend around 0. Would like one big gift, but a few smaller ones would be fine too. Help! Thanks.

I hope this doesn’t turn into anything long haha. But my mother-in-law can drive me absolutely crazy sometimes.

To start off.. We get along pretty well, but not as well as we could because there have been a couple of times in the past where she and my husband were in an argument and she blew up and said some things about me that I did not appreciate at all. My husband is in the Army and we live in Colorado and she’s in New York so we don’t get to see her often. My family is here in Colorado because this is where we met and got married. She lays the long distance grandmother guilt trip on him all of the time. I understand she wants to be closer to see the baby and everything but she always talks about how we get to spend all the time with my family and never with theirs. It gets so old. She also borrows money from us and never pays it back. She just recently bought a brand new car 3 weeks after we lent 0 to her. So that has caused some tension too because we can’t afford to pay our bills and hers as well, especially with a baby coming.

Well she plans on coming out here after the baby is born which is totally fine with me but my husband leaves for Iraq 30 days after the baby is born. So I’d like to have as much alone time as a family as we possibly can. She wants to wait a week or two after the baby is born to give us time to adjust and everything. But she just told me that she plans on coming for 2 weeks!! I don’t know if I can handle 2 weeks. I will appreciate the help and I know she wants to spend time but I feel like it might be too much.

I was just hoping for opinions on what to say or do? Should I let her come that long.. The next time we get to see her won’t be for a while. I know I’ll be able to buck up and handle it if need be but I was just looking for opinions on what you would do in this situation?

Thanks!!

My mother makes her own ceramic jewelry. She showed some to a local shop, and they said they’d put her works on display and sell them for her. They said 50-50 is a typical profit split for artist/shop, but they offered her 60-40 (60% for my mom). Is that a good deal?

I NEED SOME GREAT WEBSITES FOR BUYING BIRTHDAY GIFTS. i DONT GET ALONG WITH MY MOTHER IN LAW, BUT I DO HAVE TO BUY A GIFT FOR HER. I HAVE NO CLUE WHERE TO START.

My Mom’s birthday is in a week. She likes typical girly/mom stuff and she also teaches pilates. I am wanting to plan something fun and different we can do together, BESIDES a spa day. Any ideas?

The more unusual the gift, the better.

Here’s the deal guys..my mother filed her 2009 taxes and my sister noted an error. They sent the papers somewhere so the error could be corrected (sounds vague because this is all they are telling me). I need to fill out the fafsa form for 2011 which means I need a parents 2009 taxes ( I am 20 years old). But whom ever she sent her copy too has not sent it back and the man who prepared them will not return any of my phone calls even though he knows I need a copy for school. Total douchebag that one. Anyways..i have her 2008 taxes. And since then, nothing has changed much. The amount of money she made is about the same. I’m wondering if I should just use the ’08s. I know it’s not what I’m suppose to do and dishonest and punishable if discovered. My question is do you know anyone who has done it successfully? Is it a stupid idea? I know this is federal aid and I shouldn’t mess with the feds but theres really no difference in what she made..maye a couple hundred dollars, what are the chances they will look up what she actually made versus what I put down? ugggh I just want to go back to school