Well where have I been hiding, right?
I've had such a busy month- a job transition, a challenging sewing project, end of school year madness, and lots of little reasons to celebrate have kept my fingers away from the keyboard.
I have yet to take a moment to list all the great discounts that are available on this site:
With the code "loveoftherun" you can save:
$20 on Trenton Half Marathon Registration (Race is on 11/10 in Trenton NJ)
$5 on any Undy 5000 5k Race in the country
$10 on the Jersey Pride Triathlon (7/8 on the Asbury Park Boardwalk, NJ)
And with code "pacepermile" you can save 25% on Headsweats gear.
Do not forget that we are still accepting participants in the Instead Softcup Challenge. If you are a (female) blogger who would like to try Instead Softcup for free and write a blog review about it, Instead Softcup will pay your next race registration. (up to $125) You have to admit, that's a pretty good deal!
While I didn't do much writing about running, I did get a chance to write about the memory blanket that I made. I posted that in my rather neglected sewing blog. I think the entry says it all. Jessica's mother contacted me in early May to ask if I could make a "memory quilt" for her daughter's graduation. Little did I know that this was going to be a grand project with a finished dimension of nearly 10ft x 10ft. Little did I know that the experience of cutting tiny baby clothes apart and sewing them alongside senior high school t-shirts would be such a sweet experience. You can read all about my heartfelt experience by clicking here.
Since I've been so neglectful, I would love to compensate for that by giving away 4 (yes! FOUR) Headsweats Velocity Visors. We are excited about our partnership with Headsweats and I believe the best way to celebrate is to spread the love! The Velocity Visor might be the most comfortable running visor you will ever wear. Who will win? Let's see... as I am still feeling reeling in the sweet sentimentality of the blanket I made for a seventeen year old girl, I think that sentimentality will be our subject. Tell me about the most sentimental gift you were ever given. Creative or hand crafted gift stories get bonus points. Four people will win. You can enter more than once (with more than one story) but there will be one visor per winner.
I've had such a busy month- a job transition, a challenging sewing project, end of school year madness, and lots of little reasons to celebrate have kept my fingers away from the keyboard.
I have yet to take a moment to list all the great discounts that are available on this site:
With the code "loveoftherun" you can save:
$20 on Trenton Half Marathon Registration (Race is on 11/10 in Trenton NJ)
$5 on any Undy 5000 5k Race in the country
$10 on the Jersey Pride Triathlon (7/8 on the Asbury Park Boardwalk, NJ)
And with code "pacepermile" you can save 25% on Headsweats gear.
Do not forget that we are still accepting participants in the Instead Softcup Challenge. If you are a (female) blogger who would like to try Instead Softcup for free and write a blog review about it, Instead Softcup will pay your next race registration. (up to $125) You have to admit, that's a pretty good deal!
While I didn't do much writing about running, I did get a chance to write about the memory blanket that I made. I posted that in my rather neglected sewing blog. I think the entry says it all. Jessica's mother contacted me in early May to ask if I could make a "memory quilt" for her daughter's graduation. Little did I know that this was going to be a grand project with a finished dimension of nearly 10ft x 10ft. Little did I know that the experience of cutting tiny baby clothes apart and sewing them alongside senior high school t-shirts would be such a sweet experience. You can read all about my heartfelt experience by clicking here.
Since I've been so neglectful, I would love to compensate for that by giving away 4 (yes! FOUR) Headsweats Velocity Visors. We are excited about our partnership with Headsweats and I believe the best way to celebrate is to spread the love! The Velocity Visor might be the most comfortable running visor you will ever wear. Who will win? Let's see... as I am still feeling reeling in the sweet sentimentality of the blanket I made for a seventeen year old girl, I think that sentimentality will be our subject. Tell me about the most sentimental gift you were ever given. Creative or hand crafted gift stories get bonus points. Four people will win. You can enter more than once (with more than one story) but there will be one visor per winner.
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Ok,I am not sure that this will sound sentimental to everyone, but it was beyond sentimental to me. For my bridal shower, my mother in law gave me the name plate(remember those name plates that teachers had displayed on their desks? They were wood grain in color, with your name etched in white, and a gold holder that you could slide the name plate in and out of)that she had on her desk for years when she was a secretary at a local high school. I was an elementary school teacher, and now my name would change once I married her son, so this was the perfect gift. It also meant so much more than that. It was her way of showing me that I was accepted into the family...the she was happy to have me become the next "Mrs.Ippolito." My mother in law was truly one of my best friends. We talked regulary on the phone and I would go to her house often just to chat. Not many people can say that about their mother in laws! I will always cherish that name plate, and I will always treasure the time I had with my mother in law.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this counts as a gift...but my last 1/2 I was given a towel and it literally helped me get through the race....I am combing my house looking for it now!
ReplyDeleteI love your story Nikki!
ReplyDeleteMine wasn't so much a gift as the card that came with it. I still have it to this day even though I received the card when I was just 9 years old. The accompanying gift was a watch that is now long gone. This was for my 9th birthday from my Mom. The card wasn't your typical "little girl" card. It was the kind you would expect a mother to give to her grown daughter telling her how much she means to her and how proud she is of the person her daughter has become. When I was 9 I took the card and pinned to to my bedroom door. My mom passed away a few months later. To this day, every single time I pull that birthday card out I read it with love in my heart and tears fall (tears are falling now as I type this lol) Because of the nature of the card, no matter what stage I am in life, I feel that she is saying those words to the woman I have become. It was the last thing earthly thing my Mom gave me. I kept it on my wall all through my teenage years, but nowadays I keep it in an envelope where it is safe since you can definitely see a couple of decades of age on it. The ink she wrote in was gold, now a bit faded and "brownish" I can't even explain how much that one thing means to me. I keep it in the "safe/fire box" The only other person who knows it exists is my husband (and now all of you lol)
Ok I go now...
Thanks for posting this because you gave me reason to pull it out and read it again. I hadn't done that in awhile.
One year when I was younger. My Mother knew I wanted a school jacket. I was a Cheerleader and I wanted to put my letter on it. Money was very tight but my Mother scrimped and saved so she could afford to buy me that jacket. I probably didn't show it then, but now I know how hard she worked to be able to get me that jacket.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in high school my Mom gave me a beautiful, large painting of a waterfall that she painted herself. She's been storing it for me since I moved out of state 7 years ago. I need to get it back from her!! :)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 11, my mom made me choose between My little Pnies and Breyer Horses. Of course encouraging me to choose Breyers and showing me the breyers catalog. We chose a Breyer which was a Clydesdale jumping a brick wall. My Mom scoured stores to find that special Breyer horse I wanted, and finally found it through a friend at Dinseyland in the back storage a year later. I loved that Birthday gift of March 1985, but like the poster above, my Mom died a few months later in a car accident in Aug 1985, and I still have that breyer horse and remember the love and effort she went to get that for me and it is always front and center on display in whatever living room we live in. 29 years later it is a bit beat up, but I still love it.
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the most sentimental gift i've ever been given wasnt really even for me, but for my 2 sons (4 & 7). It was a box filled with my little brother's Legos and Star Wars action figures. My brother passed away in 1992 at the age of 14 and my mom had been holding onto his treasured possessions for all these years. Seeing my boys play, happily, for hours with their uncle's toys warms my heart. And even though they weren't FOR me, i am definitely a recipient of the blessings that came along with them. :)
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I guess I am one of the unlucky few, that have never gotten a sentimental gift... good luck to everybody else that has a story....
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I would have to say that one of the most sentimental gifts I have ever received was a quilted blanket and pillow from a patient I took care on my home care program. I do my very best for every patient I take care of and this patients was no different except during the time I was taking care of her I was pregnant. She went home to her own country in the carribean and a few months later her niece called me up because she had sent a beautiful handmade quilted blanket and pillow for my new born baby as a way to thank me for the care I provided!!!
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One more story of sentiment and although it was not a "physical" gift it was a gift from the heart. I took care of a patient on my home care program that lived with their daughter and grandkids up until they passed away. Being in the home brings you closer to patients and their families. This was in MArch and on that particular year I had to work Christmas Day. I was feeling sad that I had to be away from my family seeing patients that day and was wondering why I chose a career that leaves me working on such holidays. At around 10 am I received a text from that patients daughter wishing me a Merry Christmas and thanking me for the wonderful care I provided to her father, she said I was an angel. This text was 9 months after he passed away and in that moment I knew why I chose this career. This pt's daughter still texts me every CHristmas and each and every time it touches my heart!
ReplyDeleteThe most sentimental gift I received lately was a card my son made me for my birthday. He was so proud of himself, making the card by himself and beaming with excitement when he gave it to me (the day before my birthday because he was THAT excited). I'll keep that card forever.
ReplyDeleteI'm the kind of person that would much much rather give gifts than receive them. I love the feeling of presenting someone with a gift from the heart that means so much to them, and I always try to come up with something totally original and thoughtful. The last gift that I received for my birthday was from my mom, and she hand painted a frame saying "The happiest place on earth is anywhere with my daughter", with a picture inside of the two of us with Mickey Mouse at Disneyland. That would have been enough of a gift in itself for me because it really came from the heart. But she also included a note saying that we would be running the Tinker Bell Half Marathon at Disneyland in January 2013!!! This has been by far the most thoughtful, perfect gift I have ever received and I cannot wait to run the race with my best friend/mom by my side!
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I would have to say the day my mom gave me her original wedding band set that my dad bought her when they were 19. My father passed away 14 yrs ago at the age of 50, due to complications of diabetes and he was my heart. About 2 yrs ago my mom came up to me at work and said she needed to give me something and handed me the rings. OMG I was bawling, I mean true crocodile tears. I will never forget that moment. I have been wearing them on my pinky finger right next to my wedding rings since the day she gave them to me. And I plan on wearing them till the day I die. there are not many words you can say when you have lost a parent, but having something so dear to him, given to me is the greatest gift of all. Ok, now I need a tissue!
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DeleteOne of the most sentimental gifts I have ever been given was when I was pregnant with my first child. My mother in law gave me the baby blanket that she had carried my husband home in when he was a baby. It was a gorgeous white blanket and it was awesome bringing home my baby boy in the same blanket his daddy was brought home in!
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Going through my mental list of things I have (read: junk), I was thinking I don't really have any sentimental gifts. But then that would be because I have some things just tucked away. My grandma passed away a few years ago and she was exactly what a grandma should be - kind, nurturing, caring, loving, all those warm fuzzy things, without being annoying in a weird grandmotherly way. I have a set of earrings, a hat, and a scarf. Not necessarily my style, but oh, the comfort they bring when I think of her...
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One of the most sentimental gifts I received was a hand written poster, not a card, from my daughter. She was 12 at the time. The top of the poster reads.."Love ur BFF. I ♥ U. Hannah and Mom. U are my BFF" It's the little things that matter most to me and this is one of them, written in crayon. I'm sure over the years this will fade but until then, it hangs on my office wall.
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