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mothers day gift
I need some suggestions. I am looking for some good ideas for a mothers day gift. This woman isn't my biological mother, but is a mother figure to me. I want to get her something special and creative, not the typical jewelry or flowers bit. I wanted to get her concert tickets but the one I know shed love she already is going to. She's not into the spa stuff or manicures so that's out. But she's not masculine either. Please help
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Sometimes it is the special action taken that speak louder than a purchased gift when it comes to Mothers day. I have only one I still remember without fail, this is the Mothers day that my daughters found a large enough tray to serve as a breakfast tray and brought me breakfast in bed with cards in which they each wrote a poem from their heart. They didn't have much money to spend and they were still teens. I treasure those poems and card and memory of the breakfast and truthfully can't tell you what I recieved as a gift on any of the other Mothers days I've had.
So I would suggest if any of you are good at writing and poetry or with lyrics and play instruments, have all the kids get together and put on some entertainment for her. Take it a step further, promising to take her to lunch or dinner, just you and her. (I did something like this for my ex on his birthday.) And the entertainment can come after. I actually began driving and after a while, long enough for friends to redecorate our place(or her house) to look like a french restaurant, I pretend to look horrified, and say something about getting my wallet out earlier and can't remember if I put it back in my purse and pull over, peek in (dont let her see cus its there) and say, dang, I left it at home. We've got to go back. You ask her to run in and get it telling her where you left it. She enters the house to see living room transformed into a restaurant (card table covered in checkered cloth, 2 chairs, lit candle or flower arrangment, one person is the greeter who seats her, another (child perhaps) is the one who is dressed with apron and pad of paper to write orders on. there is also handmade menu's to hand out with two or three choices of meals. Come up wth a catchy restaurant name on menu that may pertain to the family such as "Three Sisters Restaurant" or using nicknames "Sissy and Juniors Restaurant". Get lots of help from secretly talking to a couple of her close friends telling them what you want to do and hold this event on the day before Mothers day so they can have their own. This way you can have 3 of her friends bring potluck items, like salad, fruit salad or precooked items that just need reheating in the microwave and they remain hidden in kitchen or elsewhere until the meal she ordered has been served and then ask if she'd like to meet the cooks and have her friends come out. Now she can eat with her friends while all the kids provide entertainment of some sort. I guarantee when she looks back, this will be the Mothers day she remembers and had that homemade menu tucked away with all her precious keepsakes. Its a lot of work to organize and get solid commitment but that can be your gift to her and then if anyone wishes, get her gifts as well. Or scale this down and surprise her with something small scale like breakfast in bed with your hand written notes of "What I like about my Mom" or in a poem you created. You can have a some potted rose, those mini ones that could fit on breakfast tray too. Its something she can plant and enjoy every year after.
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