Need help with Birthday Gift

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I want to thank EVERYONE who responded to my call for help. You are
wonderful! I was having trouble getting Budget101.com to come up on
my computer and you all gave me the answers I needed.

I read each one
and here’s what we ended up with: First, I should say that I forgot
to tell you my daughter does not live with me, but she is local. So
some of the great ideas weren’t applicable to us. Anyway, my 10 year
old daughter was already making her a pillow (sewn by hand – AWW!) –
whoever said that – thank you, now my 10yo thinks she’s very cool.

We
made her a great cake. I took 50 or so photos out of her baby album –
first born, you know we have tons of pictures! – made color copies of
them (awesome color copier at work – yea!

– can pay later), cut them
out and made little captions to go with most. We put all this in a
beautiful photo album (scrapbook style). Because she doesn’t live
with me she is not able to see the pictures whenever she wants and I
am not ready to give them to her quite yet. Now she has her own set
of her baby/toddler pics.

She loved it and my mom and grandma enjoyed
seeing them, some for the first time, too. Then, for the IOU, I
created a scroll certificate that is good for one day out with mom,
no siblings (she is the first of four – brother, sister, brother). I
listed the agenda: I made an appointment at a salon for after payday
and included shopping for clothes and lunch.

I may add a movie on
that day if we feel up to it. She was thrilled and is very anxious
for our “date.” She didn’t have a clue that I was broke and just
assumed the day was planned around when I was able to get her to the
salon.

Woo Hoo!

Again, thank you Budget101ers for your help!

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