Day Two 2/16/14
Exhaustion and allergies have brought me to where I am now: a fever and a nasty head cold. Hubby loves to go canoeing, I go sometimes for him but not all the times he goes because I want to be good company when I come along. We were supposed to take his family from overseas today but he went along without me and let me rest. I spent the majority of the day sleeping.
Something made us both very very angry today. I didn't think it was possible for a gift to make us angry but it did. Hubby's Father gave us art as a wedding gift. We are not EXPECTING gifts from anyone, but we did make it clear that we registered for practical things like grocery store gift cards and all cash is going towards my student loan. This art looks like something my flower girl could have done and the tag was left on $500, it came from a community art group his Dad and his fancy friends belong to, the artist is also wealthy already and a friend of theirs. We felt like this gift said, "We did this to make ourselves look good." In addition, his Uncle gave us a donation to his fathers church for $250. We do not attend that church, his uncle does not attend that church either. The donation was not even made in our name it was made in honor of our wedding which was not even held at that church. WTF? That $750 would have been 8.2% of my loan paid! We would rather they gave us nothing. COMMUNITY? ARE WE UNGRATEFUL VILLAINS? Or do we have a point?
I rate myself a 0/10 today for being the best me I can be in marriage. I was the one that needed the help today and I was all pissed off as much as Hubby. However I don't think today was important that I tried harder as I was sick and the opinion on the gift was shared.
MYO
Something made us both very very angry today. I didn't think it was possible for a gift to make us angry but it did. Hubby's Father gave us art as a wedding gift. We are not EXPECTING gifts from anyone, but we did make it clear that we registered for practical things like grocery store gift cards and all cash is going towards my student loan. This art looks like something my flower girl could have done and the tag was left on $500, it came from a community art group his Dad and his fancy friends belong to, the artist is also wealthy already and a friend of theirs. We felt like this gift said, "We did this to make ourselves look good." In addition, his Uncle gave us a donation to his fathers church for $250. We do not attend that church, his uncle does not attend that church either. The donation was not even made in our name it was made in honor of our wedding which was not even held at that church. WTF? That $750 would have been 8.2% of my loan paid! We would rather they gave us nothing. COMMUNITY? ARE WE UNGRATEFUL VILLAINS? Or do we have a point?
I rate myself a 0/10 today for being the best me I can be in marriage. I was the one that needed the help today and I was all pissed off as much as Hubby. However I don't think today was important that I tried harder as I was sick and the opinion on the gift was shared.
MYO