I have a really stupid confession.

shopgirl78

From the time DD was born (or maybe even prior), my mother has inisted on calling DD "her little angel."  She has no clue that online a angel baby is one that has passed.  For the first year of H's life, I would cringe when she said "that's my angel."  I bet this is a sign that I am online too much.  I got over associating my meaning of angel with hers.  I know she means well.

Anyway, she calls N "her angel boy."  And is always buying them angel ornaments (for Christmas) and for just around the house.  We have serveral (and she just bought two more) Alabama clay angel ornaments.  I am running out of places to put them. 

Despite her generosity and well meanings, I don't like the angel thing and if it were my MIL doing this I'd probably refuse to be in the same room as her. 

Anyone have a wonderful way to display, a whole bunch of clay angels??  She actually asks about the angels when she was her and seemed sort of disappointed I had two in my room.   This is her thing, I should let her enjoy doing it right?

stacynikki

Can't you be honest with her?  I know if it were my mom I would just tell her that while I think it's nice that she does this, wouldn't she rather have them at her house because it doesn't really go with my house.  Then I would remind her about all the times she had to drag out all the stuff her dad had bought for her house everytime he came to visit and then she would immediately pack it all up as soon as he left and how she hated doing that!

VivaAmore

I'm sure that it's hard to overlook your thoughts on that phrase but she does seem to mean no harm. Maybe you could get a small case/shelf for each child's room so they can display their collections there.

Angela814

DH's aunt is completely into angels as well.  She has paintings and other angel displays all over her house.

I think if it was only a few, you could put them on a shelf or mantle or something out in your living room or family room.  One or two would be tasteful.  I'd just stay away from putting 100 angel figures on a shelf.  You could also pick one angel for each room, to symbolize you have an angel guiding you wherever you go.  I'm thinking something like at Marquette (University) there was a cross in each classroom since it's a Catholic college.  But again, a whole display of all those crosses on one wall wouldn't be as tasteful imo.

This is a hard question.  I collected cat figures when I was in elementary school, but that wouldn't be appropriate for me now.  Maybe I'm just not the collecting type.

AZ_Erica

For DS and my nieces baptisms my aunt got them these pictures of little boy/little girl with angel wings that say "when I grow up I want to be an angel."  To me it's super CREAPY.  i suppose it's meant to be a nice thing but it's hiding in the closet.  I can totally see where you are coming from.  I don't have any advice just that I agree with you.