Every year DH asks me to make him a list of things I'd like (not just for Christmas but for my birthday and now Mother's Day). Every year, without fail, he completely ignores said list, and I end up with random gifts. One year he bought me a "chair and a half' leather recliner. We'd sat in it in the store several months before, and he said all he could think about was cuddling a LO in there with us (we were TTC then). That chair gets use daily (I'm sitting in it now!)
This year rather than the TOMS and necklace I sweetly requested he bought me new dinnerware and wine glass sets. The former because our dishes have been through the ringer lately...several have chipped or outright broken, and I'm not in love with the purple color of them anymore. I mentioned a month or two ago that I'd like a new set soonish, but I assumed we'd wait until after the holidays and go pick them out together, lol. The wine glasses are sort of a joke...we need them, but we need them because I'm notoriously bad about breaking them. So he bought like 24 so we always have some.
He also got me a membership to a local yoga studio that has classes on Saturday mornings. He said he thought I could use an hour or two to myself, out of the house and away from LO.
He told me he was planning on buying me an iPad but wasn't able to get to the Apple store. I think that would have been neat, but I have a new iPhone and a Kindle Fire already.
How did your SO do?