Receive His Gift
With Christmas quickly approaching, I thought it'd be a good time for this blog post. If you have a dad, a brother, or any man in your life like the ones I know, then you can probably relate to this scenario: You ask him what he wants for Christmas. His reply is the same as all the other years, "Don't get me anything." But being the wonderful person that you are, you get him something anyway. You sit and watch anxiously as he opens his gift, waiting for the pure joy to flood his face when he sees the shirt, shoes, or whatever it may be that you picked out especially for him. The suspense builds up and then...he lets out an unconvincing, "Thanks, its nice." After a few weeks have passed and there has been no sighting of the gift, you ask why he hasn't worn/used it yet. And here it comes, the answer you get every year, tailored to the gift, of course. "It's too small, it doesn't match anything, I don't have room for it, etc...