So it happened to me…

As moms, we know that we ARE the Christmas magic and we set the tone for the house. This has been how it has always been (my daughter is 4) and I’ve been with my husband for 10 years. But this year, and as I write this it is five days before Christmas and I just got an email from our joint Amazon account that I have a basket of bath products and a bathrobe coming coming my way for Christmas. But not on Christmas, closer to new years.

This was my husband’s one of two things on his Christmas to do list. The other was to buy his sister’s husband, who is his secret Santa recipient (that’s how we do it for adult presents in our family) their gift. That gift has been ordered and was delivered last week.

I’m feeling extremely hurt and completely like an after thought this year and it is really breaking my heart. I know I can’t expect people to do things exactly the way I want them and that I can only control how I react and handle the situation but I just feel like my worth got equated to a bathrobe and bath soap that you buy your mom and grandma and not your wife.

My husband has dropped the ball like this on and off through the years but we had really been focusing on being better about moments like this.

Just a super sad mama who is trying not to sound ungrateful but wishes that my husband could put the same thought into something for be as I did for the entire holiday.