So my daughter-in-law, an English teacher and published author, is annoyed with me.

She gifted my youngest daughter’s baby with a teddy bear. She explained that the teddy bear had belonged to her mother (now deceased), then her brother and then it was hers. She passed it down to her two kids, now too old to want the bear. Since she and my son don’t plan on more kids, she wanted my daughter’s baby to have it.

It was a touching moment, until I suggested it was a family bear-loom.

Ah well. She’ll forgive me. ;-)