My brother and his wife have three kids, ages 3 years, 18 months, and 2 months old.  We bought gifts for the oldest two, but did not buy a gift for the two month old.  Gifts happened yesterday.

Woke up to a text from our mother, saying we should have bought something and essentially we weren’t valuing and loving the two month old as part of the family.  Wasn’t sure how to respond to that, so I didn’t say anything.  Now I regret not buying something small, but this reaction feels a bit excessive and an emotional low-blow.

Brother hasn’t responded to call or texts.  He’s not usually one to overreact to this kind of thing and I’ll assume he’s busy, but strange he hasn’t at least texted back.



