My in laws organize presents for the kids without consulting us. I love it. I'm always like "wow that is an awesome gift!" My mum, on the other hand, rings me and says "what do the kids want for Christmas?" This year I told mum a new kitchen for DD, she then emailed me a whole lot of links and said "which one?"

In one way it's great because I can tell her something big instead of heaps of little crummy presents, but I hate the knowing.

DH is sometimes really good, sometimes useless. He has asked me about forty five thousand times what I want for Christmas and each time I've told him the same things but he keeps forgetting. List on the fridge might be a good idea...

But then he went and secretly had a stunning ruby necklace made for me by our jeweler friend for our anniversary and completely rolled me, I thought we weren't doing present and was completely floored! I told him to enjoy it as it was the only time he'd get one over me