Our only niece is turning one today, but we live 5 hours away and couldn't make it down for the party. I bought a couple of outfits, a Melissa & Doug puzzle, and a board book for her birthday present. Since we can't make it down for the party I decided to mail them to her. I made DH stop by the post office while we were out running errands, and he griped about having to stop and waiting in line. I was annoyed with him so I told him that I was just going to put my name on the package (I still put both of our names on it) since he had no part in any of it, other than standing in line with me. If it was up to him he wouldn't have even acknowledged that it was her birthday. I know that our niece is too young to care, but this is his sister's little girl. He just doesn't think about things like that, and unless you tell him that you specifically want something, which I have learned to do, you will get nothing.

I have also been bugging him the last couple of weeks about what we should get his mom for Mother's Day, and he never committed to anything so we never sent anything. He kept telling me to get ideas from his sister because he didn't know what his mom would like. I'm sure he will call his mom tomorrow, but I would have liked to send flowers or something.

He just doesn't see much value in giving and receiving gifts, which is fine, but I feel like we should at least give some kind of gift even if it is small. I will have to get used to it though because I don't think he is going to change. He has may other awesome qualities, but gift giving isn't one of them.