I got an Echo for my wife for Christmas.  My Daughter set it up.  Perfect.  My wife immediately says, “Alexa..... Tell my husband to take you back.”  

My wife wanted a Ring doorbell a couple of years ago and I ended up getting the echo and programmed them both to work with each other. 
She loves it.

At least you didn’t get her a vacuum or exercise equipment like some I’ve known over the years. 
 

Notice how I used the word ‘known’ (past tense)? They all mysteriously disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. ?

I received an Echo last Christmas 2020, and didn’t set it up until Spring.  About 5 months ago, late at night I was alone in an adjacent room reading.  The house was dead silent.  Out of the blue, I hear the Echo say “I am having trouble connecting to the Internet”.  If it was having trouble connecting in my dining room, I can imagine the trouble it was having connecting in the garbage can.