One more gift giving event and I’m done ‘till October
As I finally finished cleaning up the mess Christmas morning I sat down and sighed a happy sigh. See, a month ago I was stressing over what to get Kev, the guy who buys the things when he wants them leaving nothing for me to gift him with, for Christmas. Every year I end up feeling like crap when he manages to surprise me with incredible gifts while he sits there with yet another crappy gift from me. Happy Feet slippers anyone?
Kev is fully aware of how awful he is to shop for and assures me that he loves all his gifts but I still feel awful and desperately needed to avoid that this year. I started stressing big time. Soon after my first post on this subject last month my stressing turned into whining which turned into tears which finally led to Kev giving up the latest toy he wanted but, and I quote, “its too expensive so I’ll buy it myself.” Umm, no *gasp for air* you won’t.
The boy wanted a laptop and damn it I was buying him a laptop (expensive, yes but he has been robbed the last 2 years so I didn’t see anything wrong with it).
Seeing as Kev already knew what he wanted as far as specs, I didn’t get to surprise him on Christmas morning but whatever. He had a cool gift from me actually under the tree this year which meant that I didn’t feel like a cheap thoughtless wife so ha! A happy sigh for success! Theres always next time for surprises…
And this is where the happy sigh turns into another sigh of panic. That next time is two and a half weeks away, our 3rd Anniversary. There isn’t a lot of time to think and considering we both spent far too much on Christmas for each other there isn’t a lot of money to be spent either. Le sigh. Why did I decide on a January wedding?!
We need a kid to spoil. Did I just say that?
