Special Birthday Gifts
For that Someone Special

The difficult part in finding someone special birthday gifts is trying to come up with the ideas.

My mother will have her 85th birthday in December and each year finding special birthday gifts has become more and more difficult.

My sister and brother want to invite friends and relatives to a special surprise party for our mom, but we still have to find some special birthday gifts, in addition to the party.

My sister has always been very practical and was trying to think of mom's special needs.

Mom recently moved into a senior housing scheme so has no garden and just a few indoor plants, so has no real need of gardening supplies.

When she did have a garden we were always able to find special birthday gifts that she could use outdoors. Then I found something unusual TreeGivers special birthday gifts.

TreeGivers plant trees as part of a reforestation program.

To honor special individuals... for a special birthday gift or for other occasions ...you can have a tree planted in their name.

The gift includes sending the recipient a certificate of planting along with a hand written letter or card as a keepsake.

Practical Birthday Gifts

Mom has always enjoyed sewing and knitting baby gifts, so with a growing number of grandchildren in the family, my older sister came up with the idea to look for special birthday gifts in embroidering materials.

This will keep mom busy and she will be able to embroider special birthday gifts for family and friends.

My mom has in recent years become an avid reader, so my brother decided to look around some local book stores to see if they had a novel that he thought she would enjoy.

While in the book store something that caught his eye was a range of books designed to enable people to write about their lives in different sections, in effect, to write their life story.

Intrigued by the idea of mom putting down on paper her life's experiences, my brother decided this would make an ideal special birthday gift.

Each of the available books was set up slightly differently, but each page was for a days entry and had a question at the top of the page. The questions were designed to prompt the person to write about different aspects of their life.

Another idea was to give her a DIY Gift Package & Craft Templates but we still haven't made up our minds yet about what special birthday gifts we will get my Mom, but I still think my idea is the best.

My Mom has always loved the great outdoors so I know she would love the idea of having a tree named after her.

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