gifts
By Suebee
@Suebee (2013)
Canada
January 9, 2013 12:11pm CST
I am currently working on finishing a gift for my youngest son. I already gave one similar to my oldest son for Christmas. He said that when it opened it and looked at it, it almost bought tears to his eyes.
I must say that I was teary-eyed a few times while making it as well. I would even say that at times, as a mother, I found it difficult to make and had to take a break because of all the memories and emotions it evoked. I had forgotten this until I resumed making one for my youngest son last night.
Have you ever given or received a gift that made you feel emotional? What sort of feelings did it bring out in you?
27 responses
@ZoeJoy (1392)
• United States
9 Jan 13
A gift from the heart is really the best kind of gift. Also, homemade gifts are very meaningful.
My oldest son loves to draw and does calligraphy. He made me a scroll that has very meaningful words plus he artistically drew some trees and branches around his calligraphy. It is priceless and I really treasure it. It makes me feel special and inspired.
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@narbahadur (95)
• India
9 Jan 13
Yup sometime Gift make you to cry. When specially given by Loved one by his heart. I appreciate you for giving so much of Love to your Son. Keep going.....
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
10 Jan 13
I am rather a surprise giver than receiver. I have always sprung surprise gifts on people. The first year we got married,(we were just two months into our marriage) I gave my husband a music system. We had just moved in to our house and there was no music in the house. He missed it more than I did. With my first bonus I got him that. Got the sales guy to accompany me and set it before my husband arrived. When he was at the door he could hear the music and wondered if it was from the neighbour's. We had no furniture and so the system was placed on the empty case that held the system, covered with cloth.
The joy I got watching his reaction is still fresh in my memory.
@lsjapdoit (651)
• Indonesia
10 Jan 13
I agree, it's a beautiful experience to be there when the gift accepting takes place :)
@Suebee (2013)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
I got my boys, age 26 and soon to be 24 a digital photo frame for Christmas. I am making the memory card to go with it from all the many photos that I have gathered over the years...and there are lots! I started with their ultra sound picture, then pictures of them in the hospital when they were born and went right up to my most recent visit with them last year. There is also enough room on the memory stick that they can add more photos as well.
My sons now live on their own and I am two provinces away from them so don't get to see them very often. Some photos that made me particularly teary-eyed were the ones of my sons with my father, who passed away 12 years ago. Also photos of sad occasions, like when we moved far away and my kids had to leave their friends behind.
I try to visit them at least once a year in September but couldn't go last September as I had surgery. I am going to visit them later this month though and will take the gift then. My flight is already booked and I am getting excited!
@yolanda2012 (6)
• China
10 Jan 13
I'm very glad for you! So I would like to have a child.Oh feels good,feels so good!I like it yea.Actually,if you follow your inner passion,happiness will be simple.I decided to making a gift for my mom!
@yolanda2012 (6)
• China
10 Jan 13
Thank you!My mother's birthday is coming,so I'm going to make gift for her by getting hand!
@CityTech (1)
• United States
10 Jan 13
Something that takes one's time, makes me emotional. If I got a new laptop, for example, I would be happy, but to overwhelmed with joy that I began to cry. But, if someone make me, for example, a handcrafted item they made themselves that's personal to me, I would diffidently become emotional.
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
for Christmas 2011, i redid both of our daughter's baby books. their baby books had those old sticky pages that the pictures were supposed to stick to so i took it all apart and scrapbooked each page for them. my picky older daughter (who was 18 at the time) told me it was her best Christmas present and even wanted to take it to college with her last September!
@maximax8 (31053)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 13
I made a photo calendar of my son and daughter for their grandmother. She opened it and felt great happiness. It brought tears to her eyes with all the joy. She was so delighted to see all the gorgeous photos. I think a gift that gives happy memories and positive emotions is well worth having. I felt so wonderful giving that gift to her.
@Suebee (2013)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
I have seen the photo calendars and yes, they do make wonderful gifts. It seems that gifts of photos elicit emotions and unleash a whole stream of memories for people. There is so much you can do with old photos now, especially with the use of a computer. It's not like the old days where it was very expensive and time consuming to get reprints of your favourite pictures.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
Yes, I did experienced it. It was the time when I sent pictures of my first son to my dad when he was still working abroad. That was 19 years ago. I felt I broke my dad's heart so much when I gave birth before graduation. I know he wanted me to be come really successful as a dentist. He did plan for me to have advance studies in Japan after I graduated in College. But that never transpired coz I already had a child then. I am just so thankful that despite what I have done wrong in my life, my child was a symbol of hope for me.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
11 Jan 13
I gave birth before graduation. He didn't even know I was pregnant. So it all came as a surprise to him when he went home for a Christmas Vacation and found out what happened to me just days before he went home. So I am practically having this guilty feeling even until now.
@thewonderboy (7501)
• India
10 Jan 13
I have a lot of emotions inside me when some one give me some gifts. I believe that my dear ones gives me some gifts because they felt that I am more valuable than they give and I am glad to live in this world as a human who is being loved a small number of human beings.
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
9 Jan 13
I think we can all relate to this, we can all remember that time. I made two scrapbook pages for two close friendss. I did up some pictures of us in the past, and got them printed up. I sat remembering those times, and how much fun we had. I loved giving it to them, as they both loved it, and it made it more personal.
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
10 Jan 13
This Christmas I received a little book from my best friend. It was all about friendship with lovely photos that made me quite homesick and lots of quotations about friendship. I have known this friend since we were at school together and she lived in the next road.
The book was precious to me because now we live in different countries, we rely on emails and Skype to keep in touch and we do this every week, often several times and she loved me enough to send a book to tell me that she valued my friendship in spite of the distance and the rare opportunities we have to meet face to face.
@Suebee (2013)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
That is a wonderful gift. I think we all have received a special gift like that...one that sticks out in our minds and we remember for years to come. It's the gifts the elicit memories that stay with us.
I too am far away from loved ones and the computer with emails, Skype and social sites certainly makes it easier to stay in touch, doesn't it?
@lsjapdoit (651)
• Indonesia
10 Jan 13
You have been giving a great gift to your son edvc77, that is your loving and caring for him :)
@reddog25770 (212)
• United States
10 Jan 13
My daughter gave me one of the best gives ever. When she was learning to write her letters she spent almost a whole day learning to write love you mama. Nothing makes you feel better than getting something someone worked so hard on. Any one can go to a store and buy a present. The hand made ones are always so much better.
Good luck with your gift. I'm sure your son will love it.
@angelkarah050182 (4980)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
All my gifts for my son were all bought and not handmade. I am not a creative person. That's my weakness. I'm glad that you can make something out of your skill or creativity. That's something hard to forget. My husband and my son made a "Mother's Day Card" for me four years ago. I was so touched that time. They made it. They attached our family photo and my son's signature was his handprint. He was 4 years old that time. When I was reading the card, my hands were trembling and I was teary-eyed. :)
@Suebee (2013)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
That is exactly the kinds of gifts that I am talking about! How lovely that your husband and son made such a nice card for you. Store bought gifts can be wonderful as well, especially if it is something that the person really wants or needs. As long as it is given with thoughtfulness and love it can bring on emotions as well.
I once told my husband it was on my bucket list to go skating on the Rideau Canal, but I don't know how to skate (I know, a Canadian that doesn't know how to skate, lol). Anyway I just mentioned that in passing one day, and only once. Well, I got a pair of skates that year for Christmas. Even though it was a store bought gift it meant a lot to me! He actually listens to me, lol. Anyway, he took me to the local skating rink with my new skates and helped me to skate. Then, on Valentine's Day we went to Ottawa to skate on the Rideau Canal. Scratch one off my bucket list!!
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
10 Jan 13
you must be a very loving mom!
in answer to the question, a lot of times, it is the giving (with the preparations included) that makes me emotional. it might probably be because i really put my heart in the preparation and visualizing the joy the receiver will have could really bring a tear.
your sons are blessed.
in answer to the question, a lot of times, it is the giving (with the preparations included) that makes me emotional. it might probably be because i really put my heart in the preparation and visualizing the joy the receiver will have could really bring a tear.
your sons are blessed.
@Suebee (2013)
• Canada
10 Jan 13
I put together a series of old photos for them. Some of them made me emotional just thinking about the memories attached to them, especially the ones of my kids with my father. My father passed away 12 years ago and see pictures of him with my children when they were babies was quite emotional for me.
We also moved around a lot as my ex husband was in the military and some of the pictures of my kids with their friends that they had to leave behind also mad me feel kinda sad.
Anyway, I put scanned all the old pictures on the computer, which took forever, put them on a memory stick for them and got them a digital photo frame to go with it. Awesome!
@anderson9 (33)
•
10 Jan 13
Its,great to hear that you are making gifts for your son for Christmas and its touching it bought tears to his eyes.I have bought a cute gift a 'Barbie Doll' for my 4 year old kid from http://where-to-buy.in at great offers and she was rejoiced seeing my gift.
@RookieLV (18)
• Indonesia
10 Jan 13
I remember the first gift that my wifes gave in my bithday,though it just a raincoat.its not the thing,the price,or others that makes me wanna cry,but it because that since i am alittle child,my family never had a tradition celebrating everyones birthday,weird isn't it.So our birthday just walk by without any special thing.Until now my wifes always celebrate my birthday every years,kinda feel good and happy and i get used to do the same things too for my wifes.That makes us very happy.Its not the present,the cake,celebration, but the feeling of being cared,attention by others is a different feeling.
