In the last handful of years, my children and I have begun a tradition centered around Mother's Day. Rather than sending a trite card, or making a special phone call (because I call often anyhow), and because we live too far away to visit, we do something a little different. It is becoming a tradition for the children and myself to present my mother with one or more handmade gifts in offering for the gift of life she gave to me so many years ago. The first year we did this I helped the children paint her a t-shirt. The next year the children made her pot-holders and I made her a knitted dishcloth. The year after she requested another t-shirt as her first was wearing out from use. The year after that we gave her a variety of small items.
This year I am planning on a crochet shawl for her and the girls will likely make her some organic cotton coasters for her living room.
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