What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

OK, it's her first Mother's Day as a mother and I need ideas. I have a feeling that there may be others roaming this forum who are in a very similar position. Not sure why I say that, just call it a hunch....

We usually skip gift occasions (birthdays, Xmas, etc) for 3 reasons:
1. We are not hung up on having tons of stuff.
2. We don't bother with over-commercialized holiday crap.
3. We usually just buy what we want, when we want it. Based on #1, this isn't hard to do.

Now Sunday is a little special to us, as most of you know. I want to get her something nice, but due to the items above, I don't have much experience to fall back on.

She doesn't wear much jewelery, so that's not really an option. My go-to gift is something from the local spa. Maybe a massage, facial, pedicure combo.

Loungers, help me out!

Also, I think wife needs to get a gift from Leah, so those ideas accepted as well.
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Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

A day out with the little guy. Stroll in the park or some such. What better way for her to celebrate her motherhood than with her child and love doctor?

Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

pink + 'Leah' = girl

They spend all day together as it is. Not sure if Mom's idea of a good gift is to have another typical day.


Note: First day of daycare was this past Wednesday. Mom back to work (part-time) starting tomorrow. This is gonna be a hard week on the wife...

Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

Seeing as you both seem quite non-materialistic, you could always adopt an animal/ sponsor a child/ save an acre of rainforest in her name.

Or name a star after your daughter? (you could even *ahem* use FPPs there...)

If you really wanted to give something material, something like this: rose lights is kinda sweet, but without knowing your partner all this is kinda a shot in the dark. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

The star idea is pretty good. I'll look into that a little more.
I actually like those rose lights, but not wife's speed at all. Might actually send one of those to my mom. Thanks!

Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

the star thing is really just a well-intentioned rip off. I would buy her a rose bush/ tree/ something nice to plant. A great keepsake and reminder of her first mother's day.

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Yeah, I know it's as close to a scam as you can get, but I also imagine my little girl thinking about her own star.

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I'd be okay with the star for the kid at least. But I'd be wary of naming something that might die for someone I love.

Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

I usually find your posts insightful and well thought out.

But I guess there's gotta be some fluff factored in if you want to get to 20k+ posts... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Re: What to get wife for Mother\'s day?
 

Cute kid.

Get her a gym membership so she can lose that extra weight she's been carrying around since she had the baby.