giving the best thing you have as a gift…
Meaningful gifts are my favorite at Christmas time! Mike is great at giving me gifts. I talked about some of those last year here.
I’m excited about giving our kids some really cool gifts this year. Giving our time to the people that we love most can also mean the most to them. Committing, saying we’re all in, just for them, gives kids confidence in our love. For any of us, it feels great when someone sets aside time just for us…and only us.
A couple of gifts that can make someone feel extra special:
A Baking Kit.
Complete with lessons from you once a month. Include in this little bowl of supplies a note telling your awesome little baker that you’ll love them through sugar on the floor and eggs splattered on the countertop. Forever and always. Let them know that together, once a month, you’ll be baking to your hearts’ content. Just the two of you.
Supplies:
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
- Bowl
- Recipe box with some favorite recipes (and blank cards for adding new faves)
- Rolling pin
- Apron
- Just a pinch cups
Kid Date Kit.
Commit right now. Today. To circling your calendar for one day a month. Set it aside just for the person you love, child or spouse. Give them this little reminder that, for them, you’ve cleared your calendar for the third Thursday of every month for the rest of the year. In a love note tell them the 12 reasons you want to be just with them…picnicing in the woods, hiking up a mountain, reading books in a quite corner of their room, dancing under the summer sky in the backyard…you’ll take it all, and more, to be with them.
In this kit:
- Calendar (with the day circled on every month that you’ll be just the two of you)
- Love note that tells them why they are so stinkin’ awesome
- Book of ideas for your date
- Instax Camera for capturing your dates together
- Box of chocolates for snacking while dating
- Little journal to keep favorite thoughts and memories recorded from each date
What gifts of time have you given for celebrations and holidays? Can’t wait to hear your ideas in the comments!
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Davina Fear is a Familyness Adventurer. She enjoys a daily dose of laughter, occasionally speaks in her Chrysler Building voice, and loves cereal when eaten with Grace.
She blogs at davinafear.com and her favorite color is Davina blue. She is currently reading “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed (if only she could stay awake for more than 5 minutes when her head hits the pillow she might finish it before 2014).
4 Comments
love love love this post! what a great way to make something a little more intangible but a whole lot more fun, still a treat to open on christmas!!
I’m so glad you love this…and for kids it always seems a bit more fun for them to get to open something on Christmas day!
these are such wonderful ideas!!!!
love love love them!!!
another great idea!