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GiversLog
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A blog strictly about gifts: delightable gift ideas, gift etiquette, and stories of gracious gestures. At GiversLog I aspire to give you sparkling gift ideas you can buy or make for every social occasion and shared moment in your life.
Recent Posts
Mandarins, Blog Troubles, and Other Randomness
Between the months of November and December my town is an especially good place to be. It’s the time when satsuma mandarins are ripening in private orchards up and down the hillsides. We got our first mandarins of the season yesterday from a fr...
every child needs: A GROWTH CHART
I love that kids are always so impressed with themselves for how fast they grow. My kids like to show me how far their toes reach in bed or how close they are to filling up the bathtub. Which is why growth charts are one of the coolest things ever, w...
every child needs: AN HEIRLOOM
Recently Brent’s mom sent us home with a few puzzles he used to work on as a kid. Naturally Brent and the kids came straight home and dumped the first one on the table and went immediately to work puzzle solving and talking. It was pretty fun f...
MEANINGFUL GIFT GIVING
Three very talented ladies from my hometown (yea Boise, Idaho!) launched a fun new site: HowDoesShe.com. It’s full of great, instantly usable ideas, including answers to some of life’s big questions, like how does she run a household? sta...
every child needs: SOMETHING TO MAKE THEM SPECIAL ON THEIR BIRTHDAY
On my daughter’s birthday last year we sent her off to kindergarten wearing a glittery birthday girl shirt from her aunt and an outrageous IKEA birthday cake hat from great grandma and grandpa. She couldn’t have felt more important. Do yo...
every child needs: A HIDEAWAY
As a child, little could thrill me more than a really great hideaway. A place all my own where I could play with friends or go be alone. Don’t some of these bring back that thrill? (And speaking of a thrill, stay tuned for a most lovely intervi...

