A few years back, a long-lost sister contacted our family (my mom’s first daughter whom she had to give up for adoption), and her family and my family have all met each other except me. This summer, my family and I are going to visit her. She’s graciously invited us to stay at her house for 3 of our nights in California (the others we’ll be touring around the state).
I’d like to give her (them) a “housewarming” gift, but I’m awful at coming up with ideas.
She and her husband live in the SF area, and is in her mid-60s. I live in south Texas, and was thinking of something Texas-themed. We’ll be flying out, so it’d have to be something packable and sturdy enough for baggage handling.
In 2001, we traveled to Canada to visit the second family of Mr. S’s grandfather, who had disappeared back in the 1920s. One son from each family (Mr. S’s uncle, and his newly found “half uncle”) were still alive, so these half-brothers met for the first time that weekend, at ages 70 and 75. It was really something. And we got the see the grandfather’s gave (he died in 1964) and finally hear all about what happened in the remainder of his life.
Mr. S gave his new uncle a pipe that has belonged to his father (new uncle’s half brother), who died in 1987. New uncle was very touched to receive such a personal item from a brother he never knew.