Our nearly 6 month old twins go to a sitter 2 days a week so i can work pt. Our sitter is a friend of my parents from church and one of the sweetest people i know. Before she offered to watch the babies we decided my mother-in-law would do the summer since she works in the schools and is off, so our sitter only has a few more weeks with us and hasn't figured out yet if she'll be able to pick it back up in the fall (so they may have to go to daycare).
I'm wondering if anyone has ideas as to a good Thank You gift for all she's done. She has saved us a TON financially by not having to put the babies in daycare for these few months (she wouldn't allow us to pay her much) and also saved us a lot of piece of mind!
We have a few zipper pulls left over that we made for the NICU nurses when they were in there for 2.5 months after birth, so i'm planning to give her one of those.... it has a blue bead and a pink bead (one for each baby) and an angel on the bottom and has a little note attached saying "thank you for being one of our guardian angels. Love, Elise and Elijah"
I'd like to get her a substancial gift - gift card to somewhere? and also a more thoughtful gift - maybe something with the babies hand or foot prints?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or ideas!
I'm a little late getting back with this, but we ended up giving her one of those double photo frames that folds open, one side we did the babies' foot prints on paper and on the opposite side we put a photo of her and her son each holding one of the babies (a pic that i took at the babies dedication for this exact purpose, sneaky of me right?) :)
Then we gave them a gift card to a tasty restaurant and a gift card to a huge local Christian bookstore that is owned by members of our church.
She loved everything :) Thanks for the suggestions!
Find out if she is a crafter. A gift card from say Michael's or Joannes is awesome. She can pick out what she likes. A book reader a gift card from Barnes n Noble is ideal. Any gift card that goes with her hobby is perfect.
I think taking them to the Picture People and getting a professional portrait of them taken and framed for her would be lovely. She's probably going to miss them when they're not around any more. The zipper pull is a great idea. Also, the gift that keeps giving, don't forget to invite her to the babies' birthday parties/Christmas pageants in school etc... in the future. Let her stay involved with them. The more people that love our children (provided they are good people) the better. :)
I would do any of the "thoughtful" gift suggestions that you've gotten, but for the "substantial gift" I would just write her a big check and stick it in a card. While in some cases, money might be impersonal, I think that since this person saved you so much and you seem to really only know her as an "employee" (she's not a close personal friend, I mean) this way she can get herself something she really likes. Good luck.
You can also do a little scrapbook of the kids for her.
It really depends on what their interests are. Maybe set them up with a date night, just the two of them.
I usually shy away from giving people home decor because what appeals to me most usually doesn't appeal to another but, if you have a fairly good idea of what their style is like (and need) maybe you can find some kind of handcrafted item -- something they would want but would be hesitant on spending the money on.
And then you can always take the kids to some place like The Artful Potter and have your kids decorate a set of mugs and plates for their handprints and a special inscription for each of them.
Hope this gives you some inspiration.
a spa gift certificate might be nice. Something women want but rarely buy for themselves.
I gave our sitter a $50 Outback Steakhouse gift card. One $25 card from each kid. Our sitter is an amazing woman and she treats my kids like they were family.
Maybe enlarge a good pix of the babies and frame it? Or better yet, take a great pix of her with the babies and enlarge that?
I was going to suggest everything that everyone else already suggested, but I have one more idea. How about a flowering plant or baby tree she can plant at her house. It will grow as the children grow and she will think of them everytime she looks at it.
I would give a restaurant gift card. As for a thoughtful gift, maybe a nice photo album - with a nice picture of Elijah and Elise in it :)
It really depends on what she likes. I think a gift card to her favorite restaurant would be nice. Or if she likes the theater, maybe tickets to a show.
Sculpey makes a nice kit where you can put the babies' foot and hand prints on one side and a photo on the other. I gave one to each grandmother for mother's day and they loved it. I bought the kit at Michael's the craft store.
Gift card to dinner or spa how old is she does she have a husband
Maybe nails hair cuts mall cert play tickets there are lots of things
if it was me i like the dinner gift card best
