I am trying to get my mom something for her birthday or possibly for Mother's Day.
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www.spawish.com\n\nyou can buy gift certificates that participating massage parlors accept, so she can look up packages online and can choose for herself. it's a nationwide thing, also...so i'm sure there are a few places in your area.
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I'm working early AM then I am having breakfast at my brother-in-law's and lunch/dinner with my kids and my mother. Mom and Mother-in-law are getting flowers and fine chocolates.\n\nSorry jojob, I'm sure your mother is watching over you. My mom is approaching 80 so I know our mothers days are limited here on earth. I'll be thinking about you ...Happy Mother's Day sweetie.
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That's so sweet!   If you'd just like to get her a gift related to angels, which I'm sure she'd love, below is the link for a really good website that specializes in angel products at reasonable prices.\n\nIf you'd like to do something a little more personal then how about writing her poetry and making it into a book?  I made my mom a book of poetry one year and to this day it is still the most treasured gift I've ever given her. I wrote all of the poems and really decorated the book nicely too. Or, you could write her one really good poem, perhaps about being your "angel", and either have it professionally penned in caligraphy (or do it yourself) and put some artwork with it and frame it.  It would make a beautiful, and personalized, picture.
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Get her a baby outfit and a sonogram pic from the internet.  Just when your mom is about to pass out say PSYCH! And give her what you really got her...one of those $9.99 mug and mini tea-bag sets from Walmart (the ones with the little winter scenes on the mugs).
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Get them a simple giftcard from a local store. Let them choose whatever they want.
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Thats really sweet of you to want to get her something on your own.\nMost drug stores have cards and flowers so that would be a sweet thoughtful way of saying I was thinking of you. Moms no matter how wealthy want to know their kids love and appriciate them. A well picked card with a personal note can mean more then diamonds! My kids are to young to shop (12 6 and 3) but they always make me a card and raid their candy bucket for my favorite candy and present it to me. Yea i know i bought the candy but its so sweet that they always pick out what i like and not what they wont eat :D
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Maybe you could acknowledge her more mature status by giving her a really nice piece of jewelry that she can keep and later pass on to her own daughter.  Or maybe a cute keyring for car keys if she has begun driving.
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If you know she likes movies, Maybe a gift card to Blockbusters or reasonable facsimile. Twins? Gift certificates to Toys-R-Us would be appropriate
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One year not so long ago...I found myself in a similar situation.  Money wasn't really the problem, it's just that I was so tired of the "traditional" gifts. Mom once told me that the most valuable thing you can give a person is your time....so that year I got some real pretty stationary and wrote her a long letter.  I thanked her for all the things that she taught me and how that I wouldn't be the person I am today without her as my mother.  I was real specific, even using particular examples both from childhood and adulthood.  Just to give you an example:  From you, mom, I learned honesty.  Remember when I was 5 and we were playing checkers and the phone rang?  You got up to answer the phone and because I was losing I decided to move some of the pieces.  When you came back you noticed and punished me by not playing any games with me for a week because you didn't play with "cheaters". From you, mom, I learned how to get the most for my money.  We were in a grocery store one time and I noticed that you were counting the slices in a loaf of bread.  I asked what you were doing and you told me that you were trying to get the most slices for the money.  I was a teen-ager then and rolled my eyes. Now that I understand the true value of money, I understand.\n\nI'm sure that you get the idea.  Mom cried when she read my letter, it was probably about five or six pages long.  What it did, was point out to her what she accomplished.  It honored, acknowledged, & respected her.  She said that that was the BEST mother's day gift I could have given her.  It took some time and thought but it was worth it...for many reasons.....mom passed away in October of last year.  I am so thankful that I was able to let her know how much I learned from her.  This Mother's Day will be my first without her, and I'm trying hard not to think about it too much.  \n\nOn another note, your mother and mother-in-law probably know your financial situation.  They won't (and shouldn't) be expecting a lot.  Acknowledging their special day with the meals you have planned is more than enough.  Maybe you could combine both meals into one????  This would be less expensive.\n\nAs far as the baby shower...concentrate on the mom. Buy her some pamper stuff...bath stuff, candles, chocolate, hair ties, etc.  She'll be getting plenty of stuff for the new arrival...she'll appreciate it and won't feel so unimportant.  Hope some of this helps.
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The customary notion would be to get her something she likes with a certain immediacy, like a gift certificate.  That is quaint.  To give a gift certificate or money, however, it won't be remembered years from now.\n\nOn the other hand, I believe that the best gift on the occasion of one's grauation is something lasting and memorable, and when she looks at it years from now, she will allways be reminded of the landmark occasion and of who gave it to her.  I also believe in giving very unique gifts.\n\nIn your city, do you have those companies that can take a 3D image of a person, and then carve it into a glass cube?  Here in Las Vegas, they are all over the place, particularly at shopping malls and casino resorts.  When one of my oldest friends visited here two years ago, she and I went and had a portrait of the two of us done.  We received a discount for having two made, so now we each have one to remind us of our 36-year friendship.  Our cubes cost about $120 for two.  O don't know your area, so I can't say for sure if it is available.  My thought was to borrow someone's cap and gown (unless she has hers already), and to roll up a tube and tie a ribbon around it.  Take her, along with these props, to have a beautiful portrait of herself done in a glass cube to commemorate her graduation.  Have a second one made to give to her parents.  This would be a wonderful, desirable, and unique gift!\n\nAlso, there are companies who will work from a photograph, without the subject needing to be present!  Have a headshot photo taken of her like a graduate, and send that in to be etched onto glass.  I was able to locate a mail order company in Pennsylvania that does this work.  With them, you can even add a special date or signature.  The cost is $99 for the first piece, and $19 for each duplicate:\n\nhttp://www.photo-etched.com/\n\n\nI also located a company that will do the laser portrait etching into a cube from your photograph!!!  (Wish we had that when my friend's sister was here.  I may do that with a photo of my mother, sister, and myself!)  The company is in Orlando, FL, and they also sell the lighted bases seperately:\n\nhttp://www.laserthis.com/3dHead.htm\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nI know that you'd like to have the gift immediately, but if you'd like to give her one of these just do this.  Order the gift, and at the party, present her with a hand-made certificate (or one that you create off the computer) for a very unique and personalized gift from you, which is on order!  (If this doesn't help you now, perhaps you'll take advantage of it in the future, or someone else looking for a unique gift will enjoy it.)\n\nBest wishes!
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If your Mom has a hobby, get something related to that.  \nSubscriptions to a magazine she likes to read is a gift that gives all year.\nMy daughter got me a gift certificate to my favorite lunch place, good for a weeks worth of lunches. \nIf your Mom is like me, she doesn't need trinkets, but something useful is always appreciated.  You know, you could also write her a letter and tell her how much you appreciate and love her.\nPictures are always a good thing too.  A nice scrapbook of her life, something you put together for her.
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I always try to give my mom a gift that she will appreciate like gold earrings because that's her favorite.  When it comes to me, It's either i don't get anything or if i get lucky, i guess a flower.  Although this year my five year old son made me a hat and I was so happy.  He did a good job and I'm very proud of him.
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don't get her anything stupid! my children have known me their entire lives and every year they buy me things i will never use, don't know what it is, or they buy things they can borrow, {actually my son is getting better}  but get her something she will use and that is just for her, do you know what perfume she loves but would never buy for herself? {it costs to much} or does she like to read? what authors? {it's important to know} doe's she cook, travel,wear earings?, what kind hoop or post? i know you kids have a way of waiting till the last minute then rushing out to get something that she will look at and say "it's the thought that counts"---sit down and write her a note telling her a memory of a time when you felt so much appreciation for her, or what you wish for her, something personal that will hit her in the heart put it in the card and send a check lol!
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She has probably mentioned to you something about what she would like to have. Some of the good gift ideas are tickets for some play, some good book, clothes, cosmetics, choose something she prefers.
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Obviously, I don't know all the legits about your situation with your mother, however sending a card never hurt. I believe that you should send your mother a card. If she still doesn't like you, at least you know that you tried.
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The perfect mother's day gift comes from the heart, go out to eat and to the movies with her, spending quality time with her will be worth more, and don't buy her a gift make it, it has more sentimental value that way. make her a picture frame and put a pic of the two of you in it, or buy a small photo album and decorate it, fill it with special pics of you guys, or give her a hug and tell her how much you love her.....