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limabean
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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:29 pm Post subject: housewarming gift / a journal for a new cabin? |
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| I am giving a beautiful journal to a relative as a housewarming gift. They have decided to open their vacation home to friends and family. I've enjoyed a week there with my relative working on the cabin. In the past i've stayed in rentals and the same kind of secluded places and written in such journals; experiences, what I saw, highlights of the trip ect.Yes, great gift idea; but what should I write in the journal myself? It's a new home (future retirement home) for them and I'll leave the first few pages blank for them, but I'd like to, well...be proper and not too sappy with my entry. Any suggestions?(we are enjoying a close relationship that we have been working on for 20 years) |
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pensacola_sand
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| My goodness, that's such a personal thing that it would be impossible to leave a paragraph that you should copy verbatim.I'd suggest writing a note explaining how important your relationship has been. Mention your first memories of them. Is this relative about your same age? Older? Talk about the qualities in them that truly impressed you. Then relate a few of your fondest memories of things you did together. Camping trips, yard work, playing pranks on some boys, etc. You get the idea. Make sure to include as much detail as you can think of. End the letter by saying how proud you are to be part of their lives.Take the time to get your wording right and then copy it in pen into the journal for them. Work hard to keep it to no more than one or two pages.In the end this won't be sappy. It will be personal, one of a kind, and much appreciated. Your gift to them sounds wonderful. |
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main man
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| Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| That is a beautiful thought. Write something on scrap paper first from the heart then edit the sappy stuff out then put it in the book. When hearts are connected they know what to say. But don't be in a hurry 'k. |
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