{"id":1838,"date":"2009-12-01T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2009-12-01T23:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T04:53:27","slug":"my-birthday-december-1-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/my-birthday-december-1-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"My Birthday, December 1 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My Birthday Gift from my husband<\/p><\/div>\n

That is my Birthday gift from my husband Aaron, he brought it home on Wednesday, November 25th.\u00a0 He has given me one clue: It is an idea I came up with in the past year.\u00a0 In order to understand the magnitude of the guessing game I play with my husband over my birthday gift each year I must take you\u00a0back 15 years….<\/p>\n

We had been dating for almost a year and he had no idea how much I loved to guess gifts.\u00a0 My Dad was always a great guesser, I always wanted to be like my Dad and seeing that it was a fun game to play with the giver I naturally did the same.\u00a0 My Dad was a great guesser because growing up in my family you would ask for a few things and would receive one.\u00a0 Because you knew what you asked for it was simple to go through the process of elimination and figure out the gift in hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, as I said Aaron had no clue about my past in guessing, we had not gone through Christmas or any type of gift exchange as of yet.\u00a0 It was nearing my birthday and he had told me he had went shopping for the perfect gift.\u00a0 Then he said the words that would forever haunt him “Lori, You will NEVER guess what I got you.”\u00a0 He threw down the gauntlet and suddenly it was no longer a game but more of a quest, of course he had no idea I would feel that way.\u00a0 My only clue was it includes some of your favorite things. He told me this while riding in the car with my best friend Angie.\u00a0 He got out of the car and went in a store.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Angie said to me, ” Do you think he bought you some type of jewelry?” To which I replied, “I hope not, it’s way too soon for that!”\u00a0 Then I said, “Maybe a jewelry box.\u00a0 No it can’t be that he has actually seen my jewelry box before. Maybe it is a music box.\u00a0 Oh\u00a0my gosh it is a music box that plays the rose, that is my favorite song and he knows it.\u00a0 That just has to be it!”<\/p>\n

Aaron climbed back into the car and I said, ” I figured it out, I know what the gift is.”\u00a0 His response of course was simply, ” No you didn’t.”\u00a0 I proceeded to tell him, “It is a music box that plays the rose and it may have a rose on it somewhere.”\u00a0 He was in complete shock and laughingly said, “NO It’s not!”\u00a0 Well, of course that is exactly what it was.\u00a0 I treasure my music box. My first gift from Aaron.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the years I have guessed, tickets to Phantom of the Opera, Precious Moments figurines, places we have gone, the night he was going to propose and many other special gifts.\u00a0 He has come to enjoy the challenge and now realizes that what I derive the most pleasure from is the game of guessing, the anticipation and just trying to figure out what he is thinking.\u00a0 Truth be told actually holding the gift after it has been opened is the saddest part to me because it means it’s over.\u00a0 So right now I have one hint and I am racking my brain trying to figure out the size, the weight, all the ideas I have voiced to him in the past year and what his perspective on what I want is at this moment in time.<\/p>\n

The box unopened, not revealed with little knowledge of what is inside, I treasure it this way. So how do you do it on your birthday?\u00a0 Do you rip straight into the gift without guessing?\u00a0 Do you want a clue?\u00a0 Do you care at all about the game or do you just treasure the fact the someone is giving you something?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Maybe that is why I treasure life so much, I don’t want all the answers, I just like the clues and hints that God gives me daily.\u00a0 I know with Faith that He is right here with me. I anticipate the time in which I will merge into one with Him.\u00a0 But I am so content and happy where I am just wondering and guessing.\u00a0 I don’t want to open the gift of the after life just yet. I want to enjoy the guessing game and leave the gift all wrapped up until the time is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you love to receive gifts on your birthday? Do you guess the gifts or just rip into them? Well, today is my birthday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[401,22,402,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}