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Mother's Day present for Future Mother in law

P: 5/9/2008 8:53:02 AM
zilaras Rough Rock Total Posts: 52 Last Post: 10/12/2008 Member Since: 1/11/2008	So I have a bit of a dilemma. My parents live relatively far away from me ( about an 8 hour car ride). So I am unable to spend Mother's Day with her. My SO's family live very close so we are planning on spending Mother's Day with his mom. Any ideas on a Future Mother-in-law Mother's day present?
Posted: 5/9/2008 8:53:02 AM

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P: 5/9/2008 9:03:18 AM
cammy85 Cut Rock Total Posts: 400 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 2/28/2008	Unfortunately, I have no advice, because I am in the same exact situation! As of right now, my SO and I are going to take her out to dinner, I can't decide if I wanted to do something else small (I'm not a big fan of random things that collect dust in a house...) So I'm kind of stuck on the 'sentiment' things. ~~ Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. ~~
Posted: 5/9/2008 9:03:18 AM

P: 5/9/2008 10:12:46 AM
Bia Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,289 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 3/28/2008	I have the exact same dilemma. I won't be with my family for Mother's Day because they, too, live far. So, we will be spending this Mother's Day with BF's family. Since my BF's sister just had a baby two weeks ago, everyone agreed that going out for dinner might not be the best idea...Mother's Day being a very busy day for restaurants and all. So...we decided to have them over to OUR house. Which will be great, but now I have to plan a great menu, and I don't know what! <<eek!!>> For FMIL, I think a nice, but not overly expensive, piece of jewelry would be great--I think that is what we are doing. Plus getting a cake for his sister (first-time-mommy cake!) and flowers...PLUS cooking dinner...I think that's good enough don't you? LOL Flowers and a beautiful card always do the trick for moms, I think anyway! Good luck! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it Salvador Dali
Posted: 5/9/2008 10:12:46 AM

P: 5/9/2008 10:15:38 AM
gwendolyn Ideal Rock Total Posts: 6,544 Last Post: 11/12/2009 Member Since: 8/4/2007	Do you know what kinds of stuff she's into? Maybe a potted plant, or a cute spring/summer handbag? I won't be seeing my momma for Mother's Day either. She's 3000+ miles away. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UK Wedding: April ?th, 2010 US Reception: May 30th, 2010! Out of Context Theatre presents...ladypirate: "Gwen, you would make a terrible medieval catholic priest!" 'One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.' -Jonathan Safran Foer, 'Everything Is Illuminated'
Posted: 5/9/2008 10:15:38 AM

P: 5/9/2008 10:28:48 AM
lliang_chi Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,221 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 3/13/2008	How about a nice picture frame? Fill it with either a pic of you and your FF/FI or leave it empty and she can put whatever she wants. Otherwise, just showing up with flowers should be good enough. :) You don't want to make your FI look bad. Ha ha :)
Posted: 5/9/2008 10:28:48 AM

P: 5/9/2008 10:37:33 AM
KCCutie Ideal Rock Total Posts: 598 Last Post: 6/5/2009 Member Since: 2/22/2008	Ha! Lucky me I get to do both! We're doing my family's on Saturday b/c that's also my birthday and we'll be celebrating my mom's b-day too b/c hers was the 5th. Then we're going to do his family's on Sunday and it' also his sister my FSIL's b-day! So I have to get 2 mothers day presents, a b-day present for mom, and a b-day present for FSI. LOL! Luckily my sister and I teamed up and had a really nice photo album made for my mom for her b-day and then I got her some photo boxes b/c after looking through her photos I know they need some order and I'm going to put them in the new boxes for her....that's the real present . Then I think SO and are going to get FSIL a new game for her Wii and I'll bring flowers for FMIL and I think that should do it.
Posted: 5/9/2008 10:37:33 AM

P: 5/9/2008 11:50:54 AM
sunnyd Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,508 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 11/5/2007	Last year I took my mom to get pedicures, because it's something she never does for herself. This year...I'm stuck too. But I recommend some sort of spa/pampering gift card or certificate. Always nice!
Posted: 5/9/2008 11:50:54 AM

P: 5/9/2008 12:28:51 PM
Keepingthefaith21 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,300 Last Post: 11/9/2009 Member Since: 8/17/2007	If she is into gardening I think a nice plant would be a great idea. If you are looking to give her a bigger gift, one year SO and I got one of those digital photo frames for his mom and pre-loaded it with all sorts of pictures of the family over the years (SO's sister has three children so there are always tons of pictures of them). She still has the frame displayed in her living room. For my mom, one year we paid for a cleaning service to come in and clean her entire house for her so she could spend the day doing something she really wanted to do. We also did something similar for my father for Dad's day by getting him a landscaping service to come out and spruce up the yard. *The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you can not do.*
Posted: 5/9/2008 12:28:51 PM

P: 5/9/2008 12:35:21 PM
Bia Ideal Rock Total Posts: 4,289 Last Post: 11/21/2009 Member Since: 3/28/2008	Wow...those are great gift ideas! I wish I were that creative! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it Salvador Dali
Posted: 5/9/2008 12:35:21 PM

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