Tuesday was random enough for the weekly requirement, so I’m breaking with ‘tradition’ to ask you all for help—even those of you who reached this site by googling cider recipes and newborn panda photos.*
Here goes:
What are my husband and I going to get my mother-in-law for her eighty-fourth birthday?
We’re already taking her out to dinner so I don’t have to figure out how to make chicken Marsala and we’re picking up pumpkin and/or cinnamon ice cream on the way home. But we want to give her something to unwrap, too. The kids are probably going to get her a mug with a version of Grandma is the Best on it, but the adults are fresh out of ideas.
She crochets, but isn’t interested in fancy yarn and has four spares of her favorite crochet hooks.
She loves the Cadfael mystery books and owns the entire set in paperback—maybe a set of the DVDs with Derek Jacobi?**
She loves to bake.
She’s a Cubs fan, but has a cap already.
She isn’t big on spa days.
She doesn’t drink.
She doesn’t wear t-shirts with pithy sayings.
She has “all the jewelry I need,” doesn’t have an inch a space for more artwork or family photos, and doesn’t listen to music much—nor does she go within three feet of any electronics more advanced than her cell phone, of which she is not fond.
She likes crossword puzzles, but we gave her a set of books and a dictionary last Christmas.
We have one week to figure it out.
HELP!!
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*The one time I went for cute over content and it’s the third most popular post since I started.
**By which I mean starring Sir Derek Jacobi. I doubt I could afford to have him hand-deliver the set, as marvelous a present as that might be . . .
Earful of Cider 