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Anyone else's husband hard to surprise?
I have a sneaking suspicion that MH knows that tomorrow is really a birthday meal for him. I was up early this morning, finishing up the potato salad and pasta salads for tomorrow's meal. MH wanted to help me (he thinks we're just having a friend or two over because they've been having a rough couple of weeks) but I told him to stay out of my way in the kitchen and just relax and he got offended, thinking I didn't trust him to be able to cook/be helpful in the kitchen. And then I left the IL's campsite a little earlier today to try and get cleaning done, the meat marinading, and make MH's cake without him knowing, but he insisted on coming back to help me because he "didn't want [me] doing all the cleaning" for tomorrow. Seriously?!? How the heck can I do anything secret with him by my side every minute? And who cleans the house for their own surprise birthday party?
My only solace is that *maybe* he doesn't know I made him his special birthday cake and I know he likes to have the house clean, so his helping me clean indirectly made him happy for his birthday?? Maybe??
And I didn't mention-- he blew his birthday gift by getting it himself. So now the only gift I have for him is this meal. I feel like the lamest wife ever....
Me:37 MH:38
TTC since Oct 2011
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Re: Anyone else's husband hard to surprise?
You're still trying to and doing something for him so that makes you a great wife! Like I mentioned in a post about DH's b-days a week or so ago. I've given up trying to surprise DH on his birthday. It's a pain in the butt. Same thing with Christmas really. What we do is take turns planning our anniversary. It just happened that way the first year b/c DH had to plan it since I was ill beforehand. So, the next year I made plans. We like it b/c it's a chance to surprise the other ( we do places/dinner/excursion in lieu of gifts) and we don't have to worry about IL's trying to monopolize on the day like they do on birthdays.