Happy Mother’s Day!!!

Illustration by Matthew Gauvin

To all the Mother’s out there – I hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day!!!

I hope you received some wonderful gifts, especially the gift of love and time spent with your sons and your daughters.

Happy gifting!

If you haven’t finished your Christmas shopping, you still have time to get some presents!  There are two sections to this post – the first section will focus on helping you buy different personal gifts for the people remaining on your list, the second section will help you if you need to give the same gift to many, with lots of ideas on how to still make them personal and really fit the recipient. 

Tips for Last Minute Shopping for Getting Different Presents for Each Recipient

In order to minimize stress, I suggest making a list of the people that you still would like to get presents for, then look at each recipient and write down a few things about them that come to mind.

For instance:

Lauren – Loves hats, skinny scarves and strong coffee; has new job and new home; enjoys knitting.
Tim – Loves …read more

Men wearing pink. Ironically, there is something very masculine about that. Especially when it is for a good cause…

I am watching football with my boyfriend and I notice that, although red looks red, there is an awful lot of pink where I would have expected to see even more red, so I think to myself, not a problem with the color setting of the television. What then? Football and lots of pink? Not something I’m used to seeing. Of course I point this out to Alex and he is engrossed in the game and could care less about all the pink. He thinks that the color on the television is probably off, or hopes so because my sleuthing is distracting! I eye the screen carefully and see the first pink ribbon on the padding of the goal post! Ah …read more