I'm curious as to why this annoyed you? Your feelings are your feelings, but I'm asking because I have 4 kids over an 11-year span--this may well be the last year DD23 is here Christmas morning (and even that's kind of iffy--there's a young man, you see). I do treat DD23 a bit differently--I'm more inclined to ship her stuff, since she lives 800 miles away. She also visits by plane, so by definition, I have to limit size, if not scope of presents. But I try to include her as much as possible--I would feel bad if she somehow felt left out.