For Christmas, I bought my darling husband a Nintendo DS Lite. A shift has taken place in recent years with our gift giving: I now give him gifts that I really want.

I had a Nintendo DS but sold it. I bought it right after the DS came out and quickly became disheartened with the selection of games. I sold when I thought I could still get most of my money back and did. Since then, they have retooled the DS (DS Lite) and have a ton of games that interest me. I figure since my birthday is in February that I will get him one for Christmas and I will get one for my birthday then we came play games together.

He seems to really like the DS Lite. He already has Mario Kart and Brain Age. Brain Age is a lot of fun. My brain age is very old, so I need to work on that.

My husband use to always buy me gifts that he thought were really cool. The past few years he has gotten better at giving what I want while I’ve digressed. Maybe the next swing will have us both giving gifts the other person really wants.