The Best Baby Gift
Why just give diapers that will be used up in a week when you can give a gift that will bless mom/dad and baby for a lifetime?
Imagine this scenario:
Happy Birthday, my son - Mom says as Junior licks the icing off the last candle on the cake. 🎂
Here is our gift to you, says Dad as he hands Junior a box.
He pulls on the silky ribbon and unties the bow. 🎁
As he opens the lid of the box, he sees inside a collection of envelopes, 19, to be exact. On the outside of each one is a number, starting at 0 and ending at 18.
One for each year of his life, starting with the day of his birth.
He picks up the envelope labeled "0", turns it over, and slowly opens the flap. He pulls out a sheet of paper, noticing its weight and texture.
"Fancy," he thinks as he unfolds the crisp page. He flattens the letter against the table and begins to read.
He sees his baby stats, "born 3:34pm on a Wednesday. 7 pounds, 8 ounces."
He reads of the overwhelming joy and elation his parents expressed on that day of birth. He scans the page, seeing details from the day of his birth, details he had never known before. Details even his parents had long forgotten.
He pauses in a moment of overwhelm, starting off into space before turning his gaze back to the box.
Fishing around, he is looking for a particular envelope and finally finds it. ✉️
"Happy 5th Birthday", it reads. That was the year his brother was born. Once again, he opens the flap and pulls out the letter.
He reads about his first season of t-ball. The squeal he made when Mom and Dad told him he would become a big brother, followed by the words, "I'm glad it's not a sister!".
His eyes move down the page and then stop. He had forgotten this was also the year Grandpa died. It happened just a month after he learned he would become a big brother.
Flipping this letter over, he reads about their family camping trip before his brother was born. It recounts how much he loved roasting marshmallows over the campfire and how excited he was for his baby brother to join the next camping trip.
Letter after letter, Junior reads about his growth from baby to toddler and then from boyhood into manhood.
The letters are filled with both family updates and his own personal highlights and lowlights from each year of his life.
By letter 18, Junior has a catalog and a history of his life from the day he was born to this moment, a collection of memories he will treasure forever.
A treasury of memories to pass down to his children one day that will enable stories from Grandpa for his future grandkids.
What a gift.
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What's in the box?
Letter of congratulations and suggestions for what to write
Set of premium quality writing paper (20 sheets total)
Set of premium quality envelopes (20 envelopes total)
Luxury pen with ink refills
Bonus: how to conduct birthday interviews
...add your own memories.