That sounds like a Gin I would have loved
Speaking of gifts, I didn't add it to the bitch thread around Christmas. Every year the ex and I have always paid for the gift from the kid to mom/dad. So this year I did it, just $30 or so. And the ex stopped and it never crossed my kid's mind to bring it up. This kid....rarely even get a happy birthday or happy fathers day out of her if it's not pulled out of her and clearly the ex makes no effort to remind her to say such courtesies. I'm so fucking done trying to be the good guy with her.
She should be done believing in Santa, so it's time to throw the ex under the bus. Christmas morphed from "Santa comes to both houses no matter where you wake up to that morning" when she was really young because the Ex is a fucking retard to bring that up and it changed into "Santa always leaves all the good/big stuff at Dad's house and almost nothing at mom's so mom can give all the gifts so the kid knows that MOM bought everything for her while Dad doesn't buy much because she's a fucking narcissist". At this point I can't wait for my daughter to see I made it about the magic of Christmas and not about myself the way she did.
FTR, I haven't had any beef with the ex for a year now and we've gotten along pretty well. But shit like that pisses me off. As fun as it is, I'm glad the Santa/make believe stuff is coming to an end (it should have already, but the way these things are today, I'll take the extended innocence)