I'm married to an incredible man who has a 10yr old daughter from his previous marriage. I have no kids of my own, but I do also have a nephew and niece both under age 5. His daughter is an absolutely wonderful child, well behaved, kind, sweet, generous, funny, does well in school, etc. Just a dream, really. She and I have a great relationship.As lovely as his daughter is, she is spoiled rotten. Both parents harbor a lot of guilt over their divorce, and since she is a really well behaved kid overall, they have a tough time saying "no". Her grandparents on both sides vary from "pretty well off" to "filthy rich", and her aunts are very wealthy. They all shower her in gifts on every birthday, good report card, and Christmas.This kid has more clothes in her closet than I think I've collectively owned throughout my entire life. We recently moved, and she filled twelve medium sized moving boxes from Home Depot with all of her toys, books, gadgets, etc. For reference, I filled up 2 for myself, lol.With all of that said, the holidays are coming up. I love the holidays so much, I really enjoy decorating, baking, and gift wrapping/giving. My husband isn't really into it, he enjoys the food and the company but as far as gift giving, he would be all too happy to opt out. It's special to me though, and with his permission, I try to make Christmas special for his daughter too.My family has always celebrated on Christmas Eve, so it's usually my parents, my sister's family, and us celebrating on Christmas Eve and then she goes to her mom's on Christmas Day. So between my family, her dad's family, and her mom's family.. this kid could open her own toy store after the holidays are over.I'm struggling this year thinking about how to handle the Holidays this time around. I don't want to just dump toys on her since she will be getting tons and tons of gifts from everyone else. Her bedroom is full to bursting. But I don't want to just do nothing for her. In this kind of situation, I often see people recommend gifting her with "experiences".. like tickets to amusement parks and museums and such. That sounds great, but we live in a very rural and isolated community in the middle of Texas. We have nothing here but a movie theater.Any thoughts, recommendations? via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/32Oc3ov
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