Rhett’s birthday is the 15th.
Christmas comes 10 days later.
Our wedding anniversary is the 29th.
New Year’s Eve.
And then the craziness moves into the new year with New Year’s Day, my birthday and blog-Stedman’s birthday within the next month and 1/2 and we haven’t even mentioned Valentines Day.
By Valentines Day we are exhausted.
When in negotiation for a wedding date, I laid down a simple law. If we were to be married in between Christmas and my birthday there was to be NO DOUBLE GIFTING CREDIT.
You know the trick…
This is for both Christmas and our anniversary.
or
This is for your birthday and Christmas.
and the most dreaded:
This covers all three holidays…
Nope!
That was not going to fly.
Blog-Stedman has played along perfectly. The only year where there was a hitch was the first year when he almost forgot to get me a Christmas present. We just refer to that as the year of the Salad Shooter Debacle.
Blog-Stedman has become very good at getting gifts. He doesn’t admit that he is good, but I think he knows it.
This year he outdid himself with my anniversary gift.
Seriously.
I really couldn’t have picked it out better myself.
Flowers?
C’mon people. 17 years here. He is smarter than that!
Jewelry?
Nice guess. But this is WAY better than a pair of earrings.
Spa?
That is good. This is BEYOND great.
I give up!
He gave me a weekend enrollment in the World Series of Poker Academy.
Holly is going to poker school…
Isn’t love grand?December is a crazy month here at the Nirvana.
Rhett’s birthday is the 15th.
Christmas comes 10 days later.
Our wedding anniversary is the 29th.
New Year’s Eve.
And then the craziness moves into the new year with New Year’s Day, my birthday and blog-Stedman’s birthday within the next month and 1/2 and we haven’t even mentioned Valentines Day.
By Valentines Day we are exhausted.
When in negotiation for a wedding date, I laid down a simple law. If we were to be married in between Christmas and my birthday there was to be NO DOUBLE GIFTING CREDIT.
You know the trick…
This is for both Christmas and our anniversary.
or
This is for your birthday and Christmas.
and the most dreaded:
This covers all three holidays…
Nope!
That was not going to fly.
Blog-Stedman has played along perfectly. The only year where there was a hitch was the first year when he almost forgot to get me a Christmas present. We just refer to that as the year of the Salad Shooter Debacle.
Blog-Stedman has become very good at getting gifts. He doesn’t admit that he is good, but I think he knows it.
This year he outdid himself with my anniversary gift.
Seriously.
I really couldn’t have picked it out better myself.
Flowers?
C’mon people. 17 years here. He is smarter than that!
Jewelry?
Nice guess. But this is WAY better than a pair of earrings.
Spa?
That is good. This is BEYOND great.
I give up!
He gave me a weekend enrollment in the World Series of Poker Academy.
Holly is going to poker school…
Isn’t love grand?
Rhett’s birthday is the 15th.
Christmas comes 10 days later.
Our wedding anniversary is the 29th.
New Year’s Eve.
And then the craziness moves into the new year with New Year’s Day, my birthday and blog-Stedman’s birthday within the next month and 1/2 and we haven’t even mentioned Valentines Day.
By Valentines Day we are exhausted.
When in negotiation for a wedding date, I laid down a simple law. If we were to be married in between Christmas and my birthday there was to be NO DOUBLE GIFTING CREDIT.
You know the trick…
This is for both Christmas and our anniversary.
or
This is for your birthday and Christmas.
and the most dreaded:
This covers all three holidays…
Nope!
That was not going to fly.
Blog-Stedman has played along perfectly. The only year where there was a hitch was the first year when he almost forgot to get me a Christmas present. We just refer to that as the year of the Salad Shooter Debacle.
Blog-Stedman has become very good at getting gifts. He doesn’t admit that he is good, but I think he knows it.
This year he outdid himself with my anniversary gift.
Seriously.
I really couldn’t have picked it out better myself.
Flowers?
C’mon people. 17 years here. He is smarter than that!
Jewelry?
Nice guess. But this is WAY better than a pair of earrings.
Spa?
That is good. This is BEYOND great.
I give up!
He gave me a weekend enrollment in the World Series of Poker Academy.
Holly is going to poker school…
Isn’t love grand?
That sounds like such a fun gift. My hubby gets me flowers and jewelry sometimes, but I truly love electronics gadgets. I am such a techno geek.
Oh, I have a friend who would be VERY jealous of the poker school. I’m jealous of the cool vacuum. I have a thing for good vacuums. It’s the only household chore that I like to do. I own a canister vac. If you ever want to talk about canister vacs, call me.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
oh my gosh! i must get this for my husband for his birthday! he plays facebook poker all the time and when we were in the states the last time (for 7 months) he watched so much poker i thought he was going to run off to vegas to try his luck! i need details!
Awesome!!
Happy Anniversary and Happy New Year!
Dang! 16 years and I’m still getting salad shooters. I married the wrong guy. Good thing he’s cute. Happy AnniversaryBirthdayNewYears.
Maybe someday we’ll see you on one of those shows on ESPN with all the dudes playing poker? That’d be cool. A chick smokin’ ’em at the Texas Hold ‘Em table. Sweet.
Happy Anniversary and Merry New Year! ; )
Who ever knew there was poker academy? It is so good to learn new things every day in the blogging world : ). SO so good! Have fun! I can’t wait to read all about it!
Happy New Year! Love the humor in your blog!
Wow, that IS quite the gift (and I never would have guessed even if you gave me 100 more guesses)!
Happy, uh, everything! 😉
I’m really rather jealous. But, I think you knew that.