Dear Annie: Recently, my mother told my wife that she and her husband will be unable to attend my 4-year-old daughter's birthday. The reason given is that my wife's mother showered my daughter with so many gifts last year that it made my mother's husband incredibly uncomfortable and they don't feel they have the money to "compete" with the other grandparents. Mom has asked us to make arrangements for them to celebrate our daughter's birthday on a different day, rather than be here a ...

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