Gift Suggest

I have all the empathy in the world for my mother-in-law. I know that’s a rather rare thing thanks to the eternal rift that defines the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship. So just to be clear my empathy for her is mostly around Valentines Day.

My father-in-law has a very twisted sense of logic when it comes to getting Valentines Day gifts for his wife. It’s like he has no concept at all of buying romantic gifts for his wife. When I first heard about the dreadful gifts he had given her, I was afraid that his son, my husband, might have inherited the craziness. My mother-in-law once told her husband how much she would love to receive a dozen perfect roses on Valentines Day. He got her a rose bud and mud. It came with a heart shaped valentines note giving instruction on how to plant and care for it and was signed ‘So you have perfect roses everyday’. After this idea bombed, she suggested he buy her fruit for Valentines Day. She’s always been a fan of fresh fruit and what should my father-in-law buy for her but Chap Stick in three different fruit flavors. Honestly, I wonder why they’re still together.

Thankfully my husband is not as crazy as his father. When I ask him for flowers I get flowers and that’s in addition to other smaller romantic gifts for Valentines Day. When I say I want fruit for Valentines day, my husband buys me a box of chocolate dipped fruit. It has all sorts of fruits like apples and bananas and chocolate covered strawberries and has been one of my favorite Valentines Day gifts for a long time. The chocolate strawberries are the best.

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