2012 Holiday Guide: Gifts for Your Wife

Today's gift guide focuses on the most important person in our homes--the wife.  Specifically the wife who lives in my house.  Maybe this guide could be forwarded on to someone you know?  A tall soldier, maybe?

Silhouette 
The wife may not know what she will do with this, but she KNOWS SHE NEEDS IT SO SO SO BAD.

An additional mixing bowl
If the wife in your house observes the Holy Tradition of Waffle Fridays, an additional mixing bowl for her Kitchenaid Professional HD mixer would be really handy.  You could also throw in an ice cream maker attachment.  


A Trader Joe's Gift Card and a Full Tank of Gas and No Children in the Car
Sometimes the closest TJ's is 2 hours away.  And sometimes she is out of delicious things.  And wants to hear no whining.

A Picasso or a Garfunkel

Remember that time she saw this Kershisnik for the first time and felt compelled to purchase it, but talked herself out of it because it was a few thousand dollars and that seemed superficial and didn't buy it and still thinks about it, like, ten years later?  You could save up for an original.  She would wait until the children were grown.  But in the meantime, how about a print?  (Or a postcard.  She knows y'all are broke).
And if you wanted to make her feel like you were super spiritchal you could go with a LE print from J Kirk Richards, another of her favorites:

Gift Cards 
So you put the giving off, and UPS is not going to get here in time, never fear:  She likes cash and cards.  Maybe get a sitter and go with her to an after-Christmas sale at a fancy store.  Buy her something.  But do yourself a favor and write down the plan and wrap it around a toblerone and stick it under the tree.  So it looks like it was on purpose.  Because WE know it was, but Christmas morning she sometimes forgets that you are busy 364 days of the year.  Just saying.

Hope this helps!