ivillage<\/a> that it was wood! Imagine, a whole anniversary dedicated to my favorite material. I don’t know who the genius is who came up with these themes but I’d like to shake his hand – and it definitely must have been a guy, no woman would have chosen tin after 10 years. Here is a suggestion list from ivillage for possible wood-themed gifts:<\/p>\n– Bonsai plant
\n– Weekend away in a log cabin
\n– Wood plaque engraved with words of love
\n– Take a walk in the woods
\n– Photo of you or of the two of you in a wooden frame
\n– New fence or decking
\n– Wooden furniture
\n– Wood sculpture or carvings<\/p>\n
Now my personal choice would be a truck load of freshly cut Western Red Cedar or a couple of new 4’x8′ sheets of 3\/4″ birch plywood instead of new decking or a wood sculpture but to each his own. While I’m sure my lovely bride would be enthralled with a beautiful headshot of me in a nice wood frame, wait ’til she sees what I’m dreaming up. This is going to be the best anniversary present yet.<\/p>\n
But, if my present fails to live up to expectations there’s always next year: iron<\/b>. I’m sure Chrissie would want a couple of new wings for my tablesaw by then.<\/p>\n
Of course what goes around comes around, look at the goodies she has coming once we have 3+ decades of bliss under our belt:<\/p>\n
– Thirty-fifth: coral or jade
\n– Fortieth: rubies
\n– Forty-fifth: sapphires
\n– Fiftieth: gold
\n– Fifty-fifth: emeralds
\n– Sixtieth: diamonds<\/p>\n
Somethings are worth waiting for aren’t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well it’s less than a month to go before our anniversary so it’s about time I started figuring out the ‘perfect’ present to give my wonderful wife. Now, in the past, my gift choices have not been up to par – some would say down-right awful. There’s no need to go into detail but suffice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-done"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-7F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}