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~If you follow me on Instagram (ramblingjen), you’ll know that I decided to decorate for Easter and not St. Patrick’s Day. I consulted with my advisor (L) and we settled on Easter. And then with the help of L and WB we decorated. Want to keep kids busy? Give them plastic eggs. WB loved it. And L “decorated” by placing eggs all over the house. We’ll be having a hunt soon to locate those decorations ;). He was also in charge of the putting eggs on the easter tree we have. It’s an all season tree(*) really, but right now it’s an Easter tree.
~Since I have been going through subscription box withdrawals (I haven’t gotten one in DAYS) I decided to go ahead and order both Julibox and Yuzen. I don’t exactly know when I will be getting my first boxes from them, but I am excited to try something new.
~Speaking of subscription boxes, I added Homegrown Collective and Doteable to my list yesterday. Both of them reached out to me, which I totally love! It makes me feel like they are more connected to their subscribers and who they want to reach. And, people, it’s your lucky day because Boink Box (**) also reached out to me and wanted to offer you all a coupon code. You can use code “RAMBLINGSOFASUBURBANMOM” to save 15% on any subscription. And let’s not kid ourselves, I know you are all checking them out anyways.
~I’ve heard from a few men that read here (shout out) that they know they aren’t in my target audience, but read here anyways. Dude, if you can read, you are my target audience. I’m not sure what blogging “category” I am in, but I try (and plan to try even harder) to post about a variety of topics. Listen, I could post about my kids and kid stuff and how fabulous I think they are everyday, all day. But I get that not everyone is interested in that. So I am trying to diversify.
~Don’t tell B, but I need some ideas for his 30th birthday. No surprise party or trip or anything, but I want to do something cool for him. But what? I want something unique and fun and memorable. We went to Cabo for my 30th (I turned 30 many years ago and it was a trip I won) and he got me a David Yurman ring and it was fabulous. So I gotta compete with that ;). I’ve given him two sons, which I think is pretty good, but I want to do something else too! HELP!!!
(*) It occurred to me that some may think I still have my Christmas tree up and just keep decorating it for different holidays. I’d consider that, but we get a real tree and that thing would be pretty nasty by now. No, I have a feather tree from Pier One that I decorate for different holidays.
(**) Let’s just not click that at work with your boss right behind you okay?
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I love your Easter decorations. I also like the idea of a tree to decorate for each season. And I have no ideas on his 30th….maybe get a sitter for the weekend and go away. Even if it’s just local and you stay in a hotel. We talk about going on a hotel weekend downtown all the time, just to get away. Room service, no kid. sounds perfect to me. :o)
I love your decorations! Always!
OMG! I clicked! I didn’t know. At work.
This is fun! I have never seen peeps before… 🙁
I love those A.jars… it’s awesome. So versatile.
It seems that he enjoys drinking so maybe you could do your own little wine/beer (which ever he prefers or both!) tasting sort of thing. I don’t know how far away it is but you could order various wine/beer that he hasn’t tried and have your very own tasting at the house. Google says this and this are good places to start? I am not sure, I just did a quick search.
There is also Man Crates, which I love and you can get personalized barware for him there.
That’s just a quick idea off the top of my head. Hope it gets you something to work with.
Get him 30 gifts for 30 years. they dont have to be big gifts jsut 30 different ones. My husbad did it for me it was so much fun and i think he had a great time trying to think of 30 different things
Do tell about the “flowers” on your mantle. They look super-cute & colorful! Are they yarn pom-poms? You always see billy buttons styled online, but I don’t think they grow in Michigan and these look like a fun spring alternative. Did you make them? Shall I ask more questions? Ha ha.
For my husband’s 30th he got two gifts that he really, really loved. The first was a set of rocks glasses and a matching decanter all engraved with his initials. Since it sounds like B is into liquor drinking, you could do this on a really cool bar tray to set out with his fancy booze and whiskey stones.
Does B have a favorite sports team/player? I totally splurged on a vintage jersey and he went crazy over it and wore it out to our fancy dinner on his bday (totally not appropriate for the restaurant he chose, but he was happy so I was too.) Maybe something autographed, or a cool experience type gift? I know the Angels (our local team) will sometimes have BBQs with the players and they sell tickets and give proceeds to charity. Something like that would be really fun if he was into it!