I have no idea what to blog about today, so I'll just tell y'all what I was up to! Well, I got my husband an awesome birthday gift.
It cost a whopping $1.90: a card, a movie, and a Crunch bar!
Simple and sweet, like him. He absolutely loved the card...but it's not his birthday. He was born in February.
It all started when I saw this super sweet card in Dollar Tree (most of my fantastic ideas start in this marvelous store). My Jeffrey deserves gifts for no reason. He's kind, loving, funny, hard- working, smart-- I could brag on him for days. Just look at him dad-ing it up with little Parker. I absolutely adore this man; ya'll see I took the first reasonable opportunity to brag on him. So I wanted to get him a card, "just because", But the card I loved was, indeed, a birthday card not a "just because" card. I still decided to buy it and give it to him. Originally I was going to cross out the "happy birthday". Tacky, but it works. Then I was just going to leave it because he'd think it was funny. Then I came up with the brilliant idea to kill my sweet, tiny gesture with a prank. I pretended I thought it was his birthday. I put the card in a gift bag with a cheap, corny DVD. (I also added fire to the flame by claiming that this movie that he had never heard of was his favorite movie.) The boys colored birthday cards- a great suggestion from a friend of mine. And we baked brownies and sung to him. I even wrote a sweet birthday message on his Facebook wall (yes, I took it that far).
And you know what? It was so much fun! At first, he laughed; then he went crazy and kept yelling "it's not my birthday!". Eventually, he kind of fell for it and sort of played along. Altogether, my husband had a great "birthday" surprise; he felt loved, important, and a bit frustrated! And that was what mattered most today!
My name is Kayla; I'm fun.
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