We are very practical couple, my hubb and I. For birthdays, we usually ask the other half what he/she wants/need as a birthday gift. If nothing in particular comes to mind, we would just give cash to the other party so that he/she can spend it on any thing that he/she wants.
But this year, since its my thirtieth birthday, I wanted something different. My hubb wanted to give me $500 cash to spend. I took $400, coz I wanted to spend part of it on Spa packages and also on some shopping for a revamped new me. As for the other $100, "Get me a surprise," I told him. He was clueless, kept asking me what I wanted and kept pestering me to buy the surprise myself.
Truth is, after the birth of Nurul, I think we tend to forget about each other, spending more time, money and effort on Nurul. Of course Nurul needs that from us, and we are more than willing to do so coz she is our beloved daughter, but sometimes we need to spend sometime or some effort on each other, to remind ourselves that the roles that we have to play in this household is not only to be the mom and dad to Nurul but also as lovers or as a couple who in the first placed fell in love with each other and that is the very begining all this.
So he kept pestering me, everyday, to a point that I almost gave up. I told him that I have always been giving him hints day-in, day-out. And had he been listening to me (men! where are their ears?!) it would have been such an easy feat.
Like when I said "I think I need a laptop bag lah dear" or when I said "If I have a egg-beater how nice, than I can bake Nurul's birthday cake". Anyway.....one day, he stopped pestering me and told me that the Surprise will be a belated birthday gift.
Day passed by and I still didnt receive any belated surprise birthday gift. So I kept quite and sort of gave up. Then, one day, I opened my wardrobe and I saw a box with a gift tag on it. And when I opened it up, boy was I surprised to see a Coach handbag!
SURPRISE!
Beaming from ear to ear, I thanked my hubb for the surprise.
"Eh, but this costs more than the $100 that I returned back to you leh..."
"Nevermind, as long as you like it"
"Like? I soooooo like it lah!"
He asked his friends where is the Coach boutique, went to Taka, and he chose and picked out the bag himself! I am so proud of him lah! He seldoms follow me shopping, even then, it would be shopping for Nurul's stuff only, so I didnt think that he would know my taste. So it was a huge deal when I really liked the bag that he picked out! (I find some Coach bag a bit tacky, those with the patchwork design, luckily he bought one which is simple yet practically big enough for me!)
Later I found out that he even tried to get the gift wrapped up, but didnt manage to find a gift wrapper suitable enough and that the Surprise gift have been sitting in my cupboard for since two days ago (I didnt find out about it earlier coz I didnt open my wardrobe for two days! hehehe...)
I did ever told him that I will be saving up my March bonus to join the next Coach spree on the SMH forum and that this time round I wanted to get a bigger handbag for Hari Raya. But it was just a one time comment, so I didnt think that he would remember it!
Coachy-Coachy-hota-hey!
Dang! What do I get for his birthday then? Oh oh!
posted by LiN at 9:42 AM
