When our first wedding anniversary was looming in front of me, I was rather at a loss as to what to give my Sainted wife. A thank-you card for helping turn me into a curmudgeon seemed inadequate.
What might she like? Well, she liked to entertain - a lot. Parties, dinners, teas - and she had the dishware and glassware for each occasion to prove it (see some of my earliest posts on this plague upon kitchen storage space). Then it hit me - plate warmers! Perfect for entertaining AND practical. What genius!
What so NOT genius. Clearly I wasn't getting the tender emotional part of this "married" bit. Luckily, I didn't go with some of my other ideas (oven mitts, a membership at the "Y," a subscription to Entertaining magazine).
However, the unintentional hidden genius in my gift was that I had set the bar really, really low for future gift-giving. Absolutely nowhere to go but up.
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