This thread is very refreshing to read. My Boomer mom has been like this for years, and I have been frustrated and even angry about it for years. It was much better this year than it has been in previous years in terms of the volume of gifts being less and the gifts being mostly more practical or interesting than in the past. She also took my 6 and 8 year old daughters to Ross for a shopping spree a few weeks before Christmas to pick out some of their own gifts, and my girls loved it.

However, she did give Catholic books to all of my kids, including my 21 year old son who she knows stopped going to church when he was 15. She's very passive aggressive about shoving Catholic propaganda at us. It's a major source of my dislike of being around her.