Remember that she is at least thinking of you even if she does not know what you would like. At least that is what I keep telling myself when I get a gift from my mom.
I don't like visual clutter, but I like having stuff, so I am one of those people with lots of storage containers -- even in my work room. X3non has a Japanese asthetic. So our walls tend to bare, and not a lot of doo-dads on the tables. My mom is always giving me stuff that would need to be dusted, and art for our walls. At least now she is painting Sumi style so it matches DH's style a bit more.
Then there was the time, that my mom gave us a set of king-size flannel sheets with cats on them. DH told me not to ever put them on a bed that I expected him to sleep in. When I pointed out that they were the wrong size, he sighed with relief. My mom's note said that she knew we slept on a double, but that we should have a king size bed, so these sheets would start us off. As if it was the sheets that was stopping us from "up-grading" and not the room size and my love of my antique brass bed.
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I don't like visual clutter, but I like having stuff, so I am one of those people with lots of storage containers -- even in my work room. X3non has a Japanese asthetic. So our walls tend to bare, and not a lot of doo-dads on the tables. My mom is always giving me stuff that would need to be dusted, and art for our walls. At least now she is painting Sumi style so it matches DH's style a bit more.
Then there was the time, that my mom gave us a set of king-size flannel sheets with cats on them. DH told me not to ever put them on a bed that I expected him to sleep in. When I pointed out that they were the wrong size, he sighed with relief. My mom's note said that she knew we slept on a double, but that we should have a king size bed, so these sheets would start us off. As if it was the sheets that was stopping us from "up-grading" and not the room size and my love of my antique brass bed.