Hi fellow seniors, do/did any of you make homemade gifts?

My mother-in-law is the mother of 11 children, Her first husband left her with 9 children when she was pregnant with the 10th. Her second husband died when their son was 10 years old. She kept her family together and her children are all good people with an excellent work ethic.

There is no one I respect more than my mother-in-law. I've known her since I was 3 years old. When I was a child, she has bathed me, shampooed my hair, and swatted my butt if she thought that was what I needed.

I love her very much. She's 85 now and I hope she makes it to at least a hundred.

My hubby always got on well with my mum. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for me and his mum - and I think she felt the same way about me. In all the years I knew her, I spoke to her okay when I had to but hardly ever called her by her name.

When she gave me a birthday card, she never signed her name on it but just wrote - From You Know Who. I kid you not. We only had one child and our daughter was their only grandchild, but my MIL didn't pay any attention to her or show any feelings towards her, which I never forgave her for.

My father in law, however, doted on his granddaughter. My hubby (her son) didn't get on that well with her either, so it wasn't just me. She really wasn't liked much by anyone, even the other residents in the sheltered accommodation she lived in.

I did, however, get on very well with my father-in-law. What a gem of a man he was.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.