Children & Mothers Day Gifts
By webeishere
@webeishere (36313)
United States
May 3, 2007 3:39pm CST
With Mothers Day fast approaching the thought of my mom is in my head daily. She passed away over 10 years ago from cancer which spread to her brain finally taking her to see her maker. Anyhow I wished to relate a little thing I recall and still have as a keepsake from a gift I'd made mom many years ago as a Catholic Schoolboy. This was made I would guess about 1963 when I was maybe 9. I've attatched a photo of it. It's a little vase with plastic flowers. Very simple to make and as a child it took me maybe 5 mintes time. The hardest part was bending the wire into the shape. Anyhow this is about the things mothers treasure the most. The little things their children make for them. The coupon books they make for breakfast in bed, cleaning the house and such. The little bouquet of flowers picked on the way home from school. My mom kept this all these years and before she passed away she said she wanted me to have it. Now that I took this picture I notice how FILTHY it is with dust etc. Uggg. It hangs on my office wall where I spend most my time too. I love you mom. Thanks for the friendship as well as being my mom. I miss you and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY. What have your children done.made for you that really touched your heart? Do you still have things from them when they were tots? Please share with us all here.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@teapotmommommerced (10359)
• United States
4 May 07
I come from a family who does not keep things like that. I do have a few christmas ortiments that the kids make when they where little.
I hate my mom and she feels the same about me most of the time so I have nothing I want that is hers. She does do crafts which I think are ugly. I know we are taught to love and respect our parents but I do not. Mom is a few blocks away in a nursing home. I do her laundry, and bring her craft stuff and food she wants. I told her I would take care of her 12.5 years ago and I am doing that out of duty not out of love. The family joke is when mom makes something and gives it to me I pass it on to one of my sisters we fight over who has to take it. LOL.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
4 May 07
Oh do have memorabilia from my childhood that my mom wanted ME as opposed to the other kids to have. She knew me very well and that I love things like this and others I have. She wanted her ashes thrown out over one of the Great Lakes in Michigan. My brother still has the ashes & I keep reminding him of moms wish. Anyhow thanks for the response.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
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@princeworthy (1909)
• United States
4 May 07
I don't have any stories to share about anything I have recieved for Mother's Day because I am not a mother. I did want to tell you I think that gift that you made for your mother is really cool and I can see why she kept it all these years. She was so proud that you made it and gave it to her. I think the thing that my mom has cherished all these years is a rose bush that my husband and I gave her probably about 6-7 years ago for Mother's Day. She just told me a couple of months ago that it has grown really huge and that it is the only one that she has ever had that lived this long. It was just a $5 rose bush from Walmart too. Maybe it was all the love and care that she put into it knowing it was a gift from one of her children or maybe it was just a really good bush. I like to think it is the first and that it has grown so much in the 3 years since we left because she is giving it the love she can't give me since I am so far away. Maybe I am just a silly girl though :)
@dixielol (1579)
• United States
5 May 07
Great discussion. My niece is only 2 so she really hasnt made much. She does enjoy picking flowers for me & her grandma. Problem is, most of the time, it's flowers that I have planted & didnt want picked or it's some chickers. Haha. She's sweet though. My mom has a lot of things that my sister made for her. She has 2 things that I made when I was little. But I wasn't really into showing affection as much as my big sis was/is. Mostly I just gave her a card. She does still have some of them though. A few months ago I was looking for her tax papers so I could go over them & found a piece of paper that had what looked like scribbles all over it. I took it into the kitchen to her & said to throw it away. She had a fit! She said that it says "i love mommy" & that my sis gave it to here when she was 3 or 4 yrs old. My mom is a pack rat though. She has all kinds of things like that.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
5 May 07
My mom saved evrything us kids ever made for her or at school etc. I have a few other things also. One thing I love is I have a lot of Christams ornaments she had made in the 40's and 50's.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
4 May 07
What nothing about all the great things we made mom for mothers day lol. Mabey i will make her some tissue paper flowers this year.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
4 May 07
I agree that it is the little things that count most for Mothers day.
My daughter has always loved making me something for this day. It could be a jar with coloured sand, or a paper mache ornament, or a lovely painting. Nowadays, she buts me a gift, but make a homemade card, often with a cat on it.
She asked me what I wanted this year, & I asked fpr a shrub that is drought resistant for under $10.00. She is very pleased with this idea. There is a nursery nearby.
It's nice that you have ways to remember your Mother by.
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@Swtrose (3385)
• Canada
4 May 07
Your discussion brought tears to my eyes as I lost my mother five years ago. My mother loved the roses so this day I want a rose bush that I can plant at our new house, but to answer your question I have a keepsake box with a few of the things my children made me when they were in school.
By the way my condolences to your loss.
@sjohnson628 (3197)
• United States
4 May 07
I'm sorry for the loss of your mom Grandpa Bob. I still have mine but lost my dad 10 years ago also to cancer (of the lungs) I have a son and yes I agree with you that things things I treasure the most are things made by his own hands. I still have an angel ornament he made me for Christmas one year out of small styrofoam ball and a folded white hanki...with pink roses for a halo and a tiny pink bow on her dress.
And in his grade school years he composed many little books for me. One was for mothers day and it was all about me:)
Another time when he was about 6 he designed a t-shirt (for himself though) with the Olympic symbols on it.
I still have and cherish all these little gifts he has given to me through out the years.
The best gifts in life are free!
Thanks for a great discussion Grandpa Bob! And for bringing me on a trip down memory lane!
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@kavinpurams (184)
• India
4 May 07
iam from the small village in india, in my place there is no celebration as like mothers day. but while in my school days there will function on this day. All the parents where come togther and sat on a bench and children will wash there leg with water that means we care considereding our mother as god thats the sympol of represnetation
