I am a gift giver. I live to find the perfect gift, wrap it up in the most adorable/creative wrapping, and pair it with the perfect card that I found after flipping through nearly every single one at Hallmark. It used to almost be a hobby for me. If we were celebrating my husband’s first Father’s Day without all this hassle of being new parents (I know…but stay with me here…), I would have undoubtedly spent more than 5 minutes picking out his card. I wouldn’t have just grabbed the first semi-funny one in the Shoebox section. And I certainly would have wrapped his power tool set in something appropriate, perhaps some brown paper with a satin blue ribbon tied around it. I may have even had Hailey help me draw tools all over it with crayon. Instead, since I am so ridiculously tired and used every ounce of energy I have for the week schlepping Hailey and Kendall into Home Depot yesterday amidst the other frantic last minute shoppers and in the middle of a torrential downpour, this is how I presented my husband’s first Father’s Day gift -
I threw the boxes in Hailey’s room, topped them with the cards, covered them with a blanket the dogs have obviously been lounging on, and had Scott do the “grand unveiling” this morning. The old me would have been appalled. The new me is thankful I didn’t have to look for the Scotch Tape.
6 weeks 2 days old
HAHA! I am SO with you on this one!
Lol… hey, it all works out the same in the end… but without the paper to throw out.
Happy first father’s day, Mr. BabyRabies!
you have me beat. I am still working on Matt’s Father’s Week cards & gifts. I got him some lame ones Saturday night, “wrapped” in the Best Buy bag. I’m trying to buy a better something on eBay today.