For this week’s Parent Bloggers Network Blog Blast we’re talking about gifts,the good and the bad! PBN is teaming up with GetInHerHead.com, a free service for couples who want to get gift giving right every time.

I can’t remember getting a really bad gift so I am either not that picky or I block out gifts I haven’t liked. I guess another option is that the thoughtful people who give me gifts are actually good gift pickers, lets go with that one! Here is a list of things that stand out to me:

Here is the tackiest gift I ever received: I got a regifted bridal shower gift of a pair of soup bowls and plates that when I opened had the card the giver was given when they got them as a present. I later gave them away to a friend but not as a gift. I actually do regift some things like cute baby clothes that weren’t the right size for my baby.

The weirdest gift from John: When we were in college he gave me a big sawdust block that you watered and it grew shitake mushrooms. I actually liked it a lot but it was a weird gift to give your girlfriend!

The gift that is most special to me: Wow, I don’t even know! I am not into jewelry and John and I give each other mostly practical things. So when one of the kids makes me some blob of a clay pot some day I bet that will be the gift I treasure the most.

The worst gift I’ve given someone: Well I gave my sister in law slippers that were 4 sizes too small this past Christmas.

The best baby present I was given: 2 bouncy seats, they were different ones but both great and it is nice having one on each level of the house. I can’t wait to get them out again and then give them and all baby things away right after baby #4 is a toddler (because #4 is the last baby and baby gear takes up a ton of room).

Gifts of Trees and plants: I love plants and I think they make great gifts. The best thing I’ve gotten for Mother’s Day was a pair of flowering crab apple trees. Giving plants can have an unintentional negative twist though, sometimes when you give a live present for something meaningful and it dies that can be depressing! John and I planted a Ginko tree for our first anniversary and it was dead within a year. If I believed in such things I’d have thought it was a bad omen but we’re still going strong 9 years later. Nevertheless I decided that planting a tree for the birth of any of our kids would be a bad idea, I never want to have a crying child sad that “their tree” is dead. One of those crab apple trees and a lilac bush that was a gift have bitten the dust too but I still love getting them as gifts!

Gifts I’d really love to get: I would love some photo books- one with our wedding/honeymoon pictures, one with my favorite pictures of the kids and one from my childhood. I also would also like a maid to come clean a few times after I have baby #4!

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