Our 3rd anniversary is in 10 days, and usually I am jonny-on-the-spot coming up with thoughtful and creative gift ideas, but I've been so busy lately that this kind of snuck up on me and I'm at a loss. Money's always tight, LOL... but I always make a special effort to save in order to do/make/buy something nice for my guy. This anniversary is particularly special to me because although it's our 3rd anniversary together, it's our first since we've had our son. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO! If you're familiar with my previous posts, you know he loves fishing... but that's not really... anniversary-ish. I mean, I know he loves it but.. I just don't want to go there ;) Any thoughts or suggestions?! He's spoiled, so making his favorite meal wouldn't really be all that extraordinary. Grrrr I JUST DON'T KNOW!! Thoughts?? Thanks!!
I ended up going to 'Thing Remembered' at the mall (love that store!) and got this cool pocket knife (he lost his old one that he had had for YEARS when we moved) and got our initials engraved in it, as well as our anniversary date :)
Do you remember the first movie you saw together? If so rent it and make it a special movie night at home. Maybe even buy the movie and give it to him as a gift along with his favorite "movie candy".
Make his favorite dessert to enjoy.
I just found a mobile detailing place that would fully clean, wax, and even buff my husbands car for under $100 for our anniversary. For me pampering would be a facial or haircut, for him I think having his car look nice will make hime feel really good.
Here's what my husband and I do. I am in charge of every even anniversary and he is in charge of every odd anniversary, so I already know I have our 10th anniversary - and I've had 10 years to plan for it, so I know it has to be spectacular. He has our 25th, so he better get on the ball! LOL
Anyway, I'm not a huge gift fan, instead, I like the gift of time.
1. If your son is old enough to spend the night at a grandparent's home or a friend's home, you could take him overnight to a hotel/motel and then go fishing for the day...if you like fishing as well?
2. Dinner and a movie is always a safe bet.
3. Romantic dinner at a local lake before sundown, depending on the amount of bugs.
(I had a boyfriend pick me up at 8am in his Jeep and we drove into the mountains, where he pulled into s state park and he warmed me up breakfast on the grill in aluminum foil...croissants filled with ham and cheese. Then we drove further and parked - we hiked to a river. He took off his backpack and I watched our romantic date unfold. He took out a table cloth and laid it on a gigantic flat boulder, pulled out choclate dipped strawberries, champagne, cheese, crackers, etc. I was shocked. It was the most well-planned dates I have ever gone on.)
4. Have your son be watched by someone outside of your home. Make a romantic dinner with candles and wear something sexy, etc....you get my idea, right?
Good luck and have fun!
Well, I have always gone with the Anniversary Charts! The 3rd Anniversary is: Traditional/Modern== Leather--You can do anything in leather (belt, picture frame, shoes, slippers, computer bag and so on); New Modern== Chrystal/Glass--You can get anything in this department too (paper weight, picture frame, special beer mug or drinking glass that is engraved).
As for a meal, you could always make what you made for your first dinner together! Unless that was his favorite meal. LOL I have been married for 24 yrs and I made meatloaf on our 1st, 3rd, 5th and 10th Anniversaries! As a matter of fact, I made it for our 24th also! My hubby is Retired AF and when he was home for the Anniversaries (as you can tell) I made easy affordable meals! Left time for other things...Oh yes, and a bottle of wine was always a good choice as Champagne is too expensive for the ones that taste good. (TeeHee)
Good Luck and Happy 3rd Anniversary!
Men like to be treated special, and since you are new parents I am guessing your time alone has been a little different. So i suggest......
Do you have somewhere you can leave the baby for the night? Forget about a purchased gift. Do the whole candlelit dinner thing at home, complete with sexy underwear and rose petals strewn about.
Or, get a babysitter and splurge on a hotel room.
be honest with him....tell him you are having trouble coming up with an idea! Ask him to do the planning & .....from this point on, take turns each year! Isn't that what marriage is all about....splitting & sharing? Find a gift for him, but let him make the plans for the event.....is my vote! Peace.
I just found a website www.fiverr.com. The premise is that people will will 'do' something for $5.
I planned on using something for a gift for my hubby that you may like. There are a couple people who offer to draw someone as a cartoon, or create an animated character from a pic or (and my favorite) will sketch/draw a pic from a picture. I thought about using one of our wedding photos and having it sketched and framed for the hubby.
Just a thought....
What about making a collage of your son/family for his work? Or writing him a letter telling him how much you appreciate him and the way that he fathers and how lucky you are. Or taking him somewhere just the two of you that he really wants to go? Or treating him to a hotel room without your son where you have some adult time? ;) Or giving him a massage?
how about a nice card?
what i hope doesn't happen is that you turn yourself inside out to make the occasion special, and your fellow (who seems sweet but frequently clueless) grunts and sits on the couch to watch jersey shore, leaving you hurt and furious.
doing less doesn't always mean 'crappy' or 'less than' or 'uncaring.' sometimes it's simply about creating less stress.
khairete
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Okay, it's a tiny bit cheesy but for our anniversaries my husband and I always do the "traditional" gift for each other. We don't like to spend a ton of money on the gift, we'd rather spend it on a good dinner or something like that, but like to acknowledge our time together. 3rd anniversary is leather I got my husband a nice leather picture frame and put a picture of me and my daughter in it. He took it took it to work and still has it there! He got me a pair of shoes that I'd been wanting! It's a little silly, but it's always fun trying to come up with a cute gift that fits in the theme!
my husband and I have always given each other the "traditional" gifts. 3rd anniversary is leather (if you're against leather you can go with the "modern" gift idea which is crystal/glass). For our third anniversary I got my husband a wallet and he got me a leather bound photo album. We don't usually go "all out" for our gifts since we always go out of town for our anniversary. What we do is each year it's one of our turns to plan what we'll do for our anniversary. One year we went to NYC the next we went to a spa in Berkeley Springs, WV. Since we've had our son our trips aren't as romantic, but we get away still to spend time together as a family. So the gift is usually personal without being expensive. Maybe doing a photo album of your marriage to this point in a leather bound book, documenting all the great times you've had being together. Best of luck and have fun!
