Mother's birthday, what to give her?

Thanks for the comments. I love my mother very much and we are the best of friends, I only have one brother here and the rest plus my sister live away from the district, she makes sure we are all in contact with each other no matter what. She has a very strong personality and I suppose that is what we love in her because it is her and you are right we don't have them around very long to enjoy the fun moments, I will remember my mother for the funny things she says and does, even if at the moment they annoy us and frustrate us, what a lot we will get to remember in time. I have a lot of friends my age who haven't had their parents with them any longer and I feel that I am quite blessed.

Thanks for the comment. She would love that as a gift I am sure, she loves new clothes and dresses very well and she loves her jewelery as I have said in other comments, enjoy your mum as she is the only one you get and remember to tell her how much you love her as often as you can.

Thanks for the suggestion, it doesn't get any easier unfortunately as she belongs to what I call a jewelery collectors business, the family are now getting a bit sick of always getting jewelery for birthdays,xmas, anything she can find to give away a new piece of jewelery she has acquired. I hate the latest catalogue that arrived in the mail as she will bring it out and say she has marked this one and that, I am not a jewelery person but I smile politely and say how beautiful they are and hope it's not for me because it would only go into my jewelery box where it would stay, but I love her anyway for the thought, and thanks for your thought too.

Thankyou for replying to this discussion, I appreciate everybodys ideas, I know she loves lots of love and attention, she gives out a lot to people and is well known in her small home town, she ran an after school time for the christian children at her local church, every week the kids would bring another friend and then a couple more as the weeks went on, we all wondered why so many kids were turning up to the after school time, seems she would just love to share her time, read to the kids and play games oh yes and plenty of cakes for afternoon tea. Bless her.

Thanks for the comment, I love my mother dearly but I have never been appreciated for anything I buy, everybody elses' presents she raves about but not mine, I don't know why, but that is the way it is, I have even asked her what she wants for her birthday and brought what she asked for and all I got was a OH! oh what? you may ask well I am still wondering. I said to my partner last year you watch no matter what I get it isn't received well so I brought her a beautiful crystle rose that changed colours it cost a bomb, "it gives me a headache with the lights changing" she said, at christmas she was given a plain crystal that changed colours by my x husband and that was all she raved over for days. I hope you can see my delemma, and the day is getting closer.

I like that idea thanks, it reminds me of the time she decided to throw her own birthday, we (the family) had decided to have a get together for her birthday, they came from all over the place to be at mums house for her birthday, unbeknown to us she had arranged her birthday at a completely different locality, so we turned up and no Mum and no Dad and no idea where she was, while we were wondering what to do, a phone call came in from a friend of hers asking if she needed a ride, "where to we asked" she replied "down at the local hall, didn't you remember"! Mum had asked almost the whole community and had forgotten to let her family know. We all finally joined her and enjoyed the afternoon tea. Times ticking for that special gift lol.

Thanks for that, I am indeed very blessed to have both of them. My mother is a christian and has been all her life so she imparts a lot of herself to others whether it be in prayers or money, she is very alert and very talented for somebody of her age, heck she blows my mind the technology she knows about, she is truely a wonderful mum,grandmother,great grandmother and great great grandmother.