clifffaith
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Mom & Dad have started to become PITAs around gift receiving. Dad is in hospice care, and basically returned the 50th anniversary moon landing book to me a week after I gave it to him last summer (fearing he wouldn't live until Christmas). He looked at it and was "done". Mom has way too many cat figurines as it is since it is always my fall back position, and has plenty of nightgowns, sweaters and tops. Her birthday is Jan. 15th, so I already have a cat pin I found in an antique mall for that occasion. Dad's birthday is Dec. 27th, so we have a big ball of gouda ready if he is still with us (friends always send us two big balls of cheese about this time of year).
My deceased brother used to send Harry & David pears and they liked that, so that's the way I'm leaning for one gift. Any thing you've particularly liked giving and/or receiving? Room temperature stuff would probably be best since Mom keeps their refrigerator and freezer packed to over flowing because she is afraid my sister will be gone pet sitting once again, fears Dad will be too sick to order groceries online, and doesn't want to put us out by having us drive 30 minutes to bring her stuff or take her shopping. BIG SIGH. Best thing we could give her would be a lesson on ordering groceries online, but she throws up her hands and says "I don't know how" and as long as Dad is alive he is very protective of HIS computer, in spite of not knowing what the back space key did or remembering any passwords the last time he went to print his Schwab weekly numbers and my sister had to help him.
My deceased brother used to send Harry & David pears and they liked that, so that's the way I'm leaning for one gift. Any thing you've particularly liked giving and/or receiving? Room temperature stuff would probably be best since Mom keeps their refrigerator and freezer packed to over flowing because she is afraid my sister will be gone pet sitting once again, fears Dad will be too sick to order groceries online, and doesn't want to put us out by having us drive 30 minutes to bring her stuff or take her shopping. BIG SIGH. Best thing we could give her would be a lesson on ordering groceries online, but she throws up her hands and says "I don't know how" and as long as Dad is alive he is very protective of HIS computer, in spite of not knowing what the back space key did or remembering any passwords the last time he went to print his Schwab weekly numbers and my sister had to help him.