Mother’s Day is coming up (Sunday, May 11th) and I have started looking around for gift ideas. My mom is such a great person and I try to find something special each year since I don’t get to see her as often as I would like to. This year I came across some websites that were very interesting and helpful and thought others might enjoy them as well. I started at
Gifts.com, where they give you a variety of categories to view based on moms interests. Some examples are for the Eco mom, they have recycled bicycle parts clocks, solar chargers, and energy monitoring devices which also link you to Terra Pass. For the relaxation theme, I found heated body wraps, aromatherapy blankets and pajamas. A gift certificate to Oasis Day Spa is also always a nice gift for the mom in town. Practical around the home gifts or gadgets are also a great idea and can be found at Brookstone.
Red Envelope always has very stylish ideas with beautiful jewelry, floral kits, and journals.
Locally, I’ve always loved the downtown shops such as Quilts Unlimited, Innisfree, Chinaberry, Posh, or Londons. Many of these places will also ship. Hope these ideas help. Don’t forget mom.
What ideas do you have?
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Excellent Post Lolo.
Whoa whoa whoa. Let’s not rush things. We gotta get CINCO DE MAYO out of the way first.
Can we combine the two? Drunk moms trying to speak Spanish? Ooohhh…I like it.
My mother started collecting things, not because she likes them necessarily, but because it make it easier for people to buy her gifts. She’s holiday friendly. The things? Snowglobes, masks, old fairy tale books and antique colanders.
My mom’s way cooler than your mom.
Nah, uh, my mom could beat up your mom or more importantly, drink your mom under the table
Kidding! (Just in case you didn’t catch the smiley face–I’d hate to see what could come out of a momma fight on this site)
it’s ok – i have a humor gene
my mom doesn’t drink. her first husband tricked her into marrying him by giving her a rum & coke & then asking her to marry him, then rushing off to tell her parents before she sobered up.
@2 whatever happened to the proposed cinco de mayo pub crawl?
I usually get my mom flowers because I inadvertantly ruined flowers-as-a-nice-gester for her as a kid. My dad took me to church one Sunday and my mom stayed home, as my little brother had the flu. Per our usual routine, Dad and I headed to the deli after church to pick up some cold cuts and he decided it would be sweet to buy flowers for mom at the shop next door. When little 8 year old me walked in the door holding the food stuffs and dad handed mom the flowers, she grumpily looked at me and said “was this your idea?” to which my father responded “never again!” and he hasn’t bought her flowers since.
What can I say, she’s where I get my sunny monring disposition from – the least I can do is send her an annual bouquet.
my cousins, after they finished opening xmas presents one year, turned to their father & asked, “is that all?” after that they never did xmas again.
My mom is a foodie (runs in the family) and lives out of town. I’ve found her good things at Penzy’s (http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/shophome.html) closest one is on Cary St in Richmond. Their blends are great, but it’s worth it to go in and open up the jars (they let you) and know what they are before just picking something out of a catalog.
Or I wind up ordering something from Zingerman’s (http://www.zingermans.com/). Friends from Ann Arbor introduced me to this place. I get their seedless Jewish Rye bread for my grandmother for almost every occasion. She loves it and it’s something she will actually use.
I do a lot of DVD purchasing for my mom. She’s a huge “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fan, so almost every season has made its way to her in DVD form. HBO or Showtime series that she doesn’t get to see on basic cable, or BBC series, are also winners with her.
If your mom likes chocolate (and lives in a place which won’t be blazing hot if you’re mailing them), there’s always Gearhart’s. Pretty sure you need to get that order in now, though, if you choose to go that route.
At a recently family reunion deal at my grandma’s house, I claimed some old family photos, including an awesome one of my mom and all her siblings on a VW camper bus. So that’s getting framed and given. Good local framing recommendations, anyone?
I am buying my mom a fancy electric mop thing. I know cleaning supplies aren’t the best gift, but it is pretty neat and anything to make her life easier seems to be a decent gift.
@15 the scooba? i used to have the roomba & it was the coolest thing ever. my pug would chase it around the house barking & we’d put his stuffed black cat girlfriend on top of it & he’d rescue her, but only when its back was turned.
Hahaha…yeah actually I think it is the Scooba. That is hilarious.