She tried to ruin his first Christmas... we hadn't been speaking to Mr. Ferret's parents for about 6 months at that point, and a day or two before Christmas he starts receiving all these nasty messages from his sister-in-law about how we're horrible people for not calling prior to Christmas or being there or whatever. We ignored the messages, but on Christmas eve he got this from his sister in-law: "I hope you have a guilty fucking Christmas because your mother is beside me in tears." We still don't know if she decided to send it on her own, or if Mr. Ferret's mother-in-law or brother put her up to it, because it seemed very out of character for her. And then a few days later, we got another message saying Me. Ferret's brother and sister-in-law have put a gift in the mail for Baby Ferret, as if nothing had happened (or as if they were expecting us to turn around and send their kids gifts.) We sent it back because we didn't think it was right that Mr. Ferret's family were treating the two of us like shit, but sending gifts to our kid. Long story short, we haven't spoken to any of them since early January and we don't expect to speak to them ever again. The extended family (cousins, aunts and uncles, etc.) are all on our side, so my mother-in-law is doing nothing except alienating herself, Mr. Ferret's dad, and Mr. Ferret's brother & his family.