Now, that's a gift!

Kent and I have planned an anniversary weekend getaway, yes, weeks after the actual anniversary but still, we are going.

We decided to post pone it for several reasons, one of which, we are hoping for some really nasty West coast weather to blow in, so we can sit in the hot tub on the deck of our cabin and watch the angry sea.

Sounds fabulous right?  I know!

I have just finished my gift to him.  I am a gift giver, it is one of my love languages and for years, and years, we didn't get our love languages right.  This year, I have to say, I have conquered the beast!

Both Kent and I have love languages of quality time.  We both thrive on just being near each other...that's where the love language similarities end.

His big love language is words.  For me, words are cheap, useless, generally not to be believed--yes, I am not a trusting individual.  For so many years, words were thrown about in my life with absolutely NO weight, an I will do this for you, was followed by grand disappointment.  I love you meant absolutely nothing to me and in a moment of honesty, it still means very little to me.  Show me, be consistent, then I will listen to your I love yous.  I actually had a 2 friends once say that they wanted to "encourage" me so they took me for dinner....where they told me they thought I was faking my relationship with God.  Now, those words took hold in my life and strangled me.  It took me a VERY long time to realize that--they obviously didn't know me--and I had to let the words fall off me, like water off a ducks back.  The longer I hold onto it--the more I'd be weighed down.  I no longer let words like that take up rental space in my mind.  

Sniff, I am growing.

So, Kent's anniversary gift.  It looks like this:

I think I finally got it right, this fulfills my need to be creative, to give a gift, but also fulfills Kent's need to hear words.  There are actually 54 reasons why I love him, and I have to say sitting down and brainstorming this took me a VERY long time, but I actually could have filled the cards front and back.

Give me chocolate, give me jewelry, give me time away, give me hair....now that's a gift!