Gift Hiding!

One thing that is much harder now that I'm married is hiding gifts for Brad.  At Christmas and now at his birthday time I have had to be quite creative at times.  This time around was a bit challenging based on what I got him. 

There were a few days I felt like I was doing the tango with one of his gifts.  I knew Brad would be entering a certain area of our home so I would go move the gift, after a few minutes would pass and he had vacated that area I would go move the gift back to where it was.  The reason I kept moving it was it's size plus our little Piper.  I couldn't fit it just anywhere and I couldn't trust Piper around it, so it needed to be in an area of the house that is primarily closed off to her.  Piper loves wrapping paper!  She'll tear into any gift.  Just like her brothers.  The boys though do wait until a gift is given to them before tearing into it but Piper is a little too young.  She's still learning her manners! ;)

Another issue I had just earlier today was....not being able to find things I hid. Geez, I was going nuts earlier today looking for something I got Brad.  I looked everywhere.  It's just a small item, a little extra something so I even went out to the Pathfinder thinking maybe it accidentally fell behind the third row of seats.  No clue how long I spent looking but trust me I spent too long.  In the future I have promised myself to stick to only one main hiding area instead of a few because that's how I've confused myself this time around.

Oh, and this is interesting while I was looking for the birthday item today I happened to find a small gift I had hidden back at Valentine's day for my wonderful husband.  Yes, how embarrassing to admit! During all my searching for the new gift I misplaced I found a gift that's remained hidden for the last 5 months.  Let me tell you, I need a new system...a new place to hide things.  I can't keep doing this.  Although this isn't exactly new for me.  There have been times in the past I've bought gifts for the boys in advance of an occasion then numerous months later I come across those toys for them realizing I completely forgot about the hidden gifts and now the occasion has passed.

Here's something about me....I'm the type of person that buys cool things when I see it then I wait for an occasion to come. I've done things like that for a long time.  Therefore it might not be easy to fix this little "hidden gift" issue I'm having.  Perhaps I will always be "losing" gifts then finding them.  Still though I will keep better track of Brad's specific gifts for his bday so I don't waste so much time looking for things.  Geesh!