Special Gifts for Special Person

I love December ! For me December is a month full of joy, peace, love and miracles

And in this special month, I would like you to spend a few minutes to talk about a very special person in our lives.

It's none other than our parents. Some one who have raised us up for many years. I recently watched this short video. The story line is simple and yet it managed to move me.

How many times we take our parents for granted? They show us unconditional love, no matter what we do, no matter how bad we are, no matter how ungrateful we get. Our parents ALWAYS there for us. But unfortunately, sometimes we didn't even realised that. We didn't even remember what have our parents done for us. They surely have done great things for us, given us comfort, security, support, love and many others.

But how would we repay them? Well, in my opinion, we'll never be able to repay them, but least thing that we can do is to be grateful. Showing gratitude to our parents for everything they have done to us in the past as well as in the present brings happiness to them. Even if their upbringing is less than perfect, we still owe our life to them. Another thing that we can also do is to give them respect and love. It brings great happiness to parents to see that they are respected by their kids. There’s no amount of money that can equal to receiving respect. It is priceless and it surely will make them happy and proud.

Apart from those two that I mentioned above, probably in this Special month of December you can do something 'special' for your parents.

Here are some ideas:

1. Bring them to their favorite restaurant and order their favorite dishes.

2. Pledge certain % of your bonus this year to be spent for them.

3. Surprise them with a nice bouquet of flowers send right to their doorsteps.

4. Buy gift certificate to their favorite mall.

5. Subscribe to their favorite TV cable.

6. Go for short holiday trip with them

7. Buy them a massage chair

8. Give them air tickets or an holiday package to an exotic location

9. Buy a digital photo album and upload hundreds of your photos with them.

10. Bring them to the place that they never been before (e.g. Dinner at Singapore flyer, Watch gold class movie, Having brunch at 5 star hotels, etc)

Those are just a few ideas. Of course there are also many other things that you can do to make them happy and yet it doesn't cost you any single cents.

Here's a few example:

1. Write a poem for them

2. Don't answer back and correct them when you wanted to.

3. Do your house chores (washing dishes, etc) without being asked.

4. Say "I love you!" while smiling into their eyes at least twice a day.

5. Gave acknowledgments like, "Mom, I'm so lucky to have you. You're the best mom ever!"

6. Spend time with them while listening to their opinions and stories from their life.

7. Surprise them with a nice dinner, all cooked by you.

8. Give them a nice and warm hug before they go to sleep.

9. Give them a call and ask how they are especially if you don’t see them everyday or you live far from them

10. Give them a grandchild Last year I did the no. 10 =) and my parents are definitely very happy =) hahaha…

Hopefully by now you have some ideas in your mind on what to do for your parents.

Do it for them, they definitely will be surprise and will appreciate that =)

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