Apparently diamonds are the push present of choice, frequently in the form of earrings. I’m just thinking about all of those times I cared for infants, and each time I removed my earrings before taking them on. You hold them up to your ear, and you don’t want to scratch them, particularly when their heads are wobbly! Don’t diamonds seem like a really, really bad idea? Perhaps I worry too much, but it just seems that scratching your newborn with your expensive present is not the best thing to do on Day One of parenting.
Erin
Alan Schmierer
Wow, this concept really got to you, didn’t it?
I didn’t realize brides and grooms buy each other wedding gifts. I thought the whole wedding, plus the vows, the wedding night in a hotel room, and the honeymoon on top of dedicating your life to spending it with that one other person was enough… I was informed otherwise.
Mark and I decided that our vows + the money on the hotel room is our gift to each other.
I approve 🙂
It’s not that I’m against gifts! But I think gifts can add stress to an already stressful situation and take away from a much larger exchange of commitments going on in both weddings and childbirth.
That said, I did get Sydney a wedding present: bookplates. I figured it wasn’t so much a gift as a cementing of our wedding vows as we pasted “Sydney and Erin Penner” into each and every one of our books. Commitment indeed.
Erin
Was that a self-serving gift?? You just like the design, the tidiness, the opportunity to put all those labels into books, and the library feel it gives them! Sydney’s gift indeed:)
You may be right about that, but he seemed pretty happy with it, too!
Erin