49-year-old disinvites son's 28-year-old ex from family Christmas event after she tries to change plans last minute: 'Y'all said you wanted to be with just your family!'

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  • "I'm a Grinch and I'm not sorry"

    A little background: My son Colton (29) and the mother Anna (28) of his daughter (Crystal) (5) spilt several years ago, and she has a new boyfriend (David) and a new born baby boy. My husband (55m) and I (49f) try very hard to include them in various family plans.
  • Recently we had all discussed going to a holiday event at the local petting zoo. It was a nighttime event with lights, small sleighs pulled by mini horses,
  • Christmas caroling and various other entertainment, plus a chuck wagon style dinner. My husband offered to pay for everyone. A few days before the event he found VIP tickets to the event at a good price so he bought them. *Kids got in for free
  • We had planned on all arriving in separate vehicles so my husband arranged for everyone's tickets to be waiting at the gate. The
  • original plan was to go to the event, then my granddaughter would stay with her dad at night and me during the day until Christmas.
  • Anna calls me 2 hours before the event and tells me she discussed things with David's mom, and his mom wanted it to just be FAMILY for the event, and we could take our granddaughter from the 26th to the 1st. She went on to tell me
  • they'd further discussed things and that they didn't want Crystal to get tons of toys, they would only allow clothes, jewelry and if it was a toy, she wanted American Girl stuff. (My granddaughter had asked me for ice skates, a robot dinosaur and
  • art stuff, she had never mentioned American Girl stuff at all to me or my husband and son).
  • I was pretty pissed off at this point because money had been spent, plans had been made and waiting till last minute to change everything just annoys me. After
  • quick discussion with my husband and my son, we decided the three of us would still go to the event. We got there early and told the girl at the ticket booth to please give our other 2 tickets to the next couple with kids to came to the gate but didn't already have passes.
  • An older woman in glasses looks at the camera smiling with a Christmas tree behind her.
  • Roughly 30 minutes later Anna calls me screaming about how there were no tickets for them, she thought we'd just give our tickets to them, David's mom and her date. I told her "I'll gladly bring Crystal in since she's my family, but y'all said you wanted to be with just your family". She
  • ended up spending twice what we had paid for last minute general admission, which meant the little rides and food would cost extra, while Crystal tagged along with us and enjoyed all the perks while her mom and the rest ended up leaving early because they didn't want to pay another $20 per person for dinner. As she
  • left she told me that I'm a Grinch and I ruined her Christmas gift for her new mother in law. I'm not even remotely sorry other than the fact my granddaughter got stuck in the crossfire.
  • A... Why would she think you'd be buying her tickets for an activity you organized and she disinvited you to at the last minute? That's bold. I understand why she's not with your son anymore.
  • Good for you. Bonus to the family who benefited from your act of goodness donating the two extra tickets.
  • Cocoa Almonds R... You did NOTHING wrong. Why on EARTH would she think she's entitled to the tickets your husband bought? That's RIDICULOUS! I'm glad you still went!! Hope the little girl got her ice skates.
  • Useless890 She doesn't want you around, but she still expects you to pay for them? What moron raised her? This is NOT how the world works.
  • You get that girl what she wants for Christmas and keep it at your house if you have to. An art set would provide hundreds of hours. more fun than a doll she doesn't want. I'm on her side with the dinosaur as well.
  • I feel sorry for that child. It sounds as if she's being forced into someone else's mold.

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