The Perfect Gift For Mom – No Watering Necessary

Our Spa Packages make fantastic Mother's Day gifts.

How many of us have had Mother's Day play out like this for us in the past:

You wake up a half hour early on Mother’s Day because you forgot to get a card the day before, you buy a plant, something pretty but low-maintenance (hello, succulents), and on the way up to her place stop at the coffee shop to scribble an ineloquent note about how much you value and appreciate her, how uniquely wonderful she is.

Happy Mother’s Day, Mom!

As you hand over the sickly-looking cactus, images of the manicure kit, the elegant teapot, all the other gifts you intended on getting her but somehow neglected to flash before your eyes.  You keep thinking - "This is how you show mom that you love and appreciate her?"

To be fair, moms are difficult. They often don't want stuff; she has what she needs.  Already the nooks and crannies of her home are overpopulated with Mother’s Day gifts from years past.  Which is why we keep ending up in a freeze, grabbing the nearest green thing in a plastic pot every year.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

This year, leave the cactus in the grocery store for some poor other sucker, and aim higher.  This year hand your mother a little blue box, flat and square like a necklace box, inside of which rests a memory, laced with experience and encrusted with love.

Chocolate Making Class in New York

What?  Yes.  It’s called an experience gift, an adventure gift, and instead of a knickknack or a dying plant that ends up collecting dust on the windowsill, Cloud 9 Living gives her the chance to make a memory, fulfill a dream, enrich her life.  Hundreds of these gifts are laid out for our perusal, these things we thought could not be packaged arriving neatly boxed with a satin bow.  Mosaic lessons in Chicago, spa packages, guided snowshoeing trips in Denver, chocolate-making classes in New York, VIP shopping experiences.  With that little box in her possession, she holds the ticket to something new and exhilarating, something she (truly) wouldn’t have bought for herself.  And when she’s dipping her toes into rose-scented water or piecing together that tile mosaic’d table, you'll finally be able to say that you gave her a small piece of your gratitude, in the form of something she’ll actually appreciate.