Treats for my senses

Between mid February and the beginning of April, we celebrate 3 of our 4 daughter's birthdays, Valentines Day, my birthday, our anniversary and sometimes Easter sneaks in there too.

My sweet guy is truly a most romantic man....he puts great thought into gifts , hides a multitude of cards throughout the house for me to find & usually sends a few in the mail too. He always way out gives me.

So, not being one who can appreciate a surprise, a couple of days before my birthday my curiosity was about to kill me...what had he done this year?

The whole tanked economy issue & our depleting stock portfolio combined with the fact that we really need a new dishwasher ( snore) and our pitiful carpets

( that truly wish they were hardwood floors)

are in dire need of cleaning,

I was hoping he'd play it down

......... oh , who am i kidding...

so i was busily trying to guess what the gift was.

my only hint was " I wanted to buy you something you would never ask for.

I wanted to buy you something you'd never want to spend the money on for yourself"

Well, that could easily have been the dishwasher.
why would i ask for one of those or certainly spend the money on one--right?

He leaves the room & comes back in with a large silver box from Nordstroms.

This clearly isn't an appliance
I open the box and take in the most amazing aroma.........italian leather.

I then see the Dooney label on the bag.....oh my....

inside was this beauty!!

I buried my face in that dreamy brown bag of perfection

" It smells incredible!! just like a horses stable!!! I'm in love!"

He looks at me a little bewildered---" a horse stable? do you mean a horse saddle?"

"yes --yes--that's it!! of course!! a leather saddle"

( see, i have this whole inner-cowgirl thing going on)

Oh my, let me tell ya girls

I have never owned a fancy bag but he has created a monster out of me now. I am so in love with this--

I do apologize

i realize this post is horribly materialistic

but just picture my vintage dishwasher and a home with shabby carpet

& you'll be slapped back into my real world :)

Will she always smell this wonderful?

Is it like the aroma of a new car--intoxicatingly wonderful for a few weeks and then slowly fades away?

As if that weren't enough to send me into a blissful state of living
he also bought me one of these
in yellow if you were wondering, with a great speaker dock for my kitchen
I love to have music on in our home ( & yes i know, welcome to the 21st century) but i've used my cd player (gasp) and greatly tired of listening to radio talk and the same songs over and over...so now i have 586 of my fave songs on shuffle at all times!

and for more fun.. a gurglepot ~~ which makes a wonderful whimsical little gurgling sound--(truth be told, you too can play that little gurling sound if you open their site..what a riot...) as you pour water. surely this will help me drink those 8 8oz glasses a day...just to hear that cute little noise.

I sure do love that boy!!!

Have a happy weekend
I'll be the one listening to James Taylor, Elton John, Taylor Swift, Norah Jones & Keith Urban and smelling my gorgeous bag while drinking 64 oz of h2O!


ps--on a real life serious note--several of you have been so sweet to email me your thoughts and prayers for my precious father in law. He is slowly improving after having major organ issues ( heart, lungs, pneumonia, gallbladder, intestinal problems, enlarged prostate, and the list goes on). The cardiologist told him if he had 9 lives, he surely used 5 of them recently. His spirits are better and he is finally able to eat (its been a month with no food!). Sweet precious man , we are so grateful for you!