The Best Gift I Ever Gave

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I’ve thought long and hard about the gifts I’ve given to others over the years. There are the homemade gifts I gave to my mom as a child, the awesome things my children asked for non-stop, the gift I gave my husband that brought him back to his childhood….the list goes on and on and on. After all of this thinking, I decided to go with the gift that I gave to my cousin, Anna Tyrone, for her birthday one year.

My cousin Anna is a writer. It is the one thing she loves to do more than anything. She does it all the time and always has. She has filled notebook after notebook after notebook. These days, she does blog but she still enjoys putting pen to paper more.

For her birthday in 2009, I gave her a gift bag filled with 10 or 15 of her favorite composition notebooks and a package of her favorite pens.

She was beyond thrilled! Since that day, she is constantly telling me it was the best gift ever!

I admit, Anna is a hard person to shop for. There are at least two things she owns that I know she loves more than life itself….her Chuck Taylor shoes and her coveted iPod Classic.

When buying her gift that year, I could have purchased a gift card for her to buy some music or bought her another pair of shoes. Instead, I went with what I knew….the girls loves to write and needs a place to do it!

Needless to say, I was very happy when I saw the smile on her face when she opened her gift!

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