message in a pill box, a going away present

my husband was going away for a week to Berlin. i wasn't jealous AT ALL.  i really wanted to send him away with some love from home...the time release kind.  thought of making little love notes to tuck in his bag, pockets, and toiletries pouch, but wanted to have it be cuter then that. so, i was at the dollar store...i know! shush...it's bad...but not if what you need isn't sold anywhere else you live. buy local. totally. except when looking for ridiculously oversized pill boxes. then go to china..i mean, the dollar store. boom. they had one.  they also had a candy isle.   i paroozled looking for candy that would look like pills. i settled on good n' plenty, and regular and peanut m&m's.  

(p.s. sorry about the quality of the pix, i was under lamplight in the middle of the night while he slept doing this the night before he left...shhh)

i took one of our little guys paintings, we have a mountain high stack of them that i use for gift wrapping special prezzies and such when he's not looking. kidding. he loves it. 

i cut little strips from it to write little love notes on and saved the rest for wrapping. mostly i wrote things that i love about him and am grateful for.  it's good to do this...it's not a thing most people do in their day to day interactions, so, i was hoping it was a big ball of yum for him to open up. 

i then scrolled the tiny memos up and tied them with twine.  i separated the different colours and shapes of candy and put the same ones in each compartment of the pill box and included a lil note for each day.  

when he opened it, i told him what each pill was for.  he had to take the pink when he woke up and right before he went to sleep to tell us good morning and good night. the green ones he could take whenever he missed loji so much he couldn't handle it anymore. and so on and so forth...there might have been some racy instructions for the others. ehehm...clearing throat... i told him that he had to be patient and only open one scroll a day. 

he loved this so much. when he got back, he told me it was the sweetest thing ever and that he enjoyed it so much.  he told me he was saving the box so we could both do that the next time either of us goes away again. i am hoping this means there is a relaxing mom trip to mexico in the near future.