Archive for August 13th, 2007

A very difficult part of our lives involves celebrations such as Mothers Day, my birthday, Christmas – anything involving cards or gifts.

My Man is just at the stage where he remembers he’d like to buy me gifts and gets stressed out for days about it. So now I go the white lie route and pick up a couple things and wrap them. He is happy that I have gifts.

Valentine’s 2007 was a most difficult morning – he had picked out a card but lost his writing ability and name signing. So I watched him hunched over “something” which turned out to be my card. It’s a fine line to help or not as he still has his pride. When I finally realized, got up and asked if I could help. He said, “Yes, I can’t remember how to write the letter L.” I’ll never forget the puzzlement in his voice. He had tried to write “With Love” and got the ‘with’ but could go no further. So I said, “Were you trying to put ‘with love’?” I said could print that and did he want to sign it – “I better not”.

Now I just let him pick out his card and he hands it to me – he doesn’t know it’s not signed and I read it and set it up with the others. Saves him a heap of upset and frustration. If only I could fix it, Hon. xx