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My anniversary and a complete wreath
So I thought I would just combine the two posts I wanted to write. Good news is, I completed my wreath. Here is it 
It's going to be a gift to my BM - she is expecting a baby girl she will name Maeve. Let me know what you think. I took the picture just now, in a pretty bad light and with my phone camera... colors are really pink and really orange and the E letter of Maeve is blue not green.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e130/e_jakiela/MaeveWreath.jpg
On the less good side of news - DH has been planning this weekend in Delaware with his friends for over a month. He has been asking me what weekends were OK, and he kept giving me July weekends, so I did not really pay attention. Yesterday I asked him what we could do for our anniversary, since we just came back from a vacay and he looks at a calendar and says: Oh no, August 13 is the weekend I hang out with the boys.
I did not know that!!!! I thought when he said: how about the 13th, he meant July because all of his dates were in July. He said that I said it was OK, but then admitted that he does not believe I would say OK if I knew he was talking about August 13. He just forgot! How do you forget about your wedding anniversary? It's engraved on our rings! I am so upset - no I did not have any special plans, we got a little broke after our vacation this past week, but I did want to go to the beach or to the lake, or just spend the weekend in bed. I certainly did not want to wait for him on a Sunday to have a dinner. He will not leave early enough, he will get stuck in traffic and I do have to work the next day, so this really sucks! UGH!!!
Re: My anniversary and a complete wreath
Nice wreath! Very thoughtful, I am sure your BM will treasure it.
That is too weird about your Husband and the guys weekend. My Husband is trying to plan a guys weekend too! The day before he brought it up, I was talking about getting all the couples together to go stay at a cabin in a state park for the weekend. So I do all the research and get a couple of the girls on board and the guys start talking about how they want to do a guys weekend in August instead.... the weekend I researched is our Anniversary weekend.... go figure all that research just to get screwed into spending my anniversary by myself.... boys... arg....
I LOVE that wreath! It's adorable! My SIL and my DH's cousins wife are both pregnant...great gift idea! :-)
That sucks about your anniversary weekend. My DH is also going on a boy's vacation at the end of July (weekend before our anniversary). I would never let him live it down if he were actually going on our anniversary weekend. I'm getting angry just thinking about it! :-P
I'm sure your DH will make it up to you!
Wow, it looks like that wreath could be sold for lots of duckets on etsy :-) Very pretty. Also, Maeve is very unique to me; what's the origin of that name, do you know?
As for the anniversary plans...I don't know girl, it's the first one you know?? I don't see that flying in my household. Maybe it's because we have a time capsule thingy to open, and it's very special to me that we open it on our wedding anniversary...I don't know, I think it's just because it's the very first one. After this one, we can just find a way to honor our wedding day any other time that fits into our lives...but I cannot get over this year.
I'm sorry about your DH's choice...but on the flip side, celebrating your anniversary another day other than "the day" or "the weekend" it occurred doesn't change the fact that you and DH are very much married, and that your wedding was important and special.
I know I just have issues, myself! I hope you get a really expensive present out of this :-)
As for your anniversary weekend, that really sucks. I would definitely make him plan something special either the weekend before or the weekend after - not just do dinner on Sunday night!
But that's coming from a girl who hasn't even started to figure out our anniversary weekend. H and I are both in the midst of changing jobs, and I really have no idea what we'll be doing, so for now we just have to wait and see. I hope things get settled soon!
Thank you, Ladies.
DH really liked the wreath so that gives me hope they will too (my BM's husband is DH's BFF since pre-school).
The name Maeve apparently comes from Irish Medb. Here is what I found online: Maedb was the great warrior queen of Connacht in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Her name might be related to mad (child), or to meisce and mean "the cause of great intoxication".
Hence the meaning "intoxicating, she who makes men drunk".
That's kinda funny.
Molly, your picture is so cute! The baby is like a little bird inside a nest - so cute!
About our anniversary - DH feels like he is in a doghouse because of this boy's weekend. He was sorry yesterday when he realized that he messed up... this is NOT good for me, but he said he will make up for it... We don't have anything special to open other than the cake from our baker that we are getting as an anniv. gift. I hope he comes up with something nice to make up for it
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He says he will look like a suck up -they apparently debated on what date works for all of them, one dude is coming from Colorado, and DH agreed that August 13 works for him... it's really his fault he forgot. and you are right about some of them being mega d-bags - the colorado one especially.
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