Monday, December 18, 2006 3:05 PM
Gift for DH
by Katie
I totally shot myself in the foot last night.
We were hanging out and I brought up Christmas -- in particular, I brought up our Christmas gifts. And because I have learned that my DH does not pick up hints, nor does he catch on when I specifically tell him the plan, I have to say something like: This is what we're going to do. Are you okay with that? You know that this means... Are you still okay with that? After he nods or says yes 4 times, I can safely assume that he heard me.
So last night I get it in my head that we need to have an element of romance for the holiday. We're going to be staying with his family and I thought it would be cute if we did one of these fun coupley things while we were at his house.
To be honest, this was the second time I mentioned the idea of a small gift to open more privately, but of course, I didn't use the right method of discussion (as mentioned above) and he didn't realize that we were doing it. So now that he's on board, I actually need to get him another present -- I got him one big gift, so I have about $50-$75 to spend on something else.
Do you have any ideas? I would normally do some type of clothes, but this tends to be a self-serving gift, and it's not all that romantic to open clothes in bed.
btw: I found that using The Nest to end a small conflict really helps. Last night, I was like, I think it's important that we start a fun “us” tradition. He was nodding and agreeing and then he was like, wait- why? So my answer was simply: The Nest recommends it. About a half hour ago he emails me 2 paragraphs from the article I was talking about. The first was about the gift in bed, and the second was about starting our own tradition the night before we leave for Christmas. We might just be starting 2 cute “us” traditions this year.
I'll let you know any of them work out :)