birthday present for mom 04 by Publication Critique
Published Date: 27/06/08
Every year, us kids go in on a birthday present for mom. It is not that we are cheapskates ? quite the opposite. Together, we can get better birthday presents for mom then we can on our own. Each of us have different tastes, and each of us have limited financial resources. When we pool them, we can come up with the best birthday gifts for mom. She is always surprised and delighted, and unlike most women her age, she looks forward to her birthday. It is all because of us and our generous gift giving.
We actually take turns picking out the birthday present for mom. This year, it was my turn to pick. I was full of ideas, but none of them seemed quite right. I thought a great birthday present for mom would be a new painting. She absolutely loves art, you see. When we grew up, she used to have art and craft projects with us all the time. When I was a kid, I often thought that she liked to do art even more than we did. She still does some art, but she does not do it nearly enough any more. I thought that if I got a painting as a birthday present for her, it would remind her of her lost passion for making beautiful things.
Unfortunately, I could not find the perfect painting. Getting a piece of art as a birthday present for mom ca be very difficult. She has very specific tastes, and I cannot always tell if something would be to her liking. Sometimes I'm very surprised. Once I got a birthday gift for mom that I thought was lovely. It was a small sculpture carved all out of Onyx that I thought she would adore. Needless to say, she did not like it. She tried to be polite, but I could tell the birthday present for mom had flopped.
Eventually, after considering many different ideas, I settled on what I thought was the perfect birthday present for mom. It was a box set of Janis Joplin cds. She loved Janis Joplin, and used to play her on tape for us all the time when we were kids. I figured that I could not go wrong with this birthday present, and I was right. She adored it, and thanked all of us profusely. It was one of the best birthdays that I can remember, and that is a fact!
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