Tag: family
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14 Days of Love Notes for Valentine’s Day
Do you know what makes a holiday better? The anticipation and excitement leading up to it! Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. Here is a fun way to use the first 14 days in February to show someone how much you love, cherish and appreciate them. Do this for children and adults! The Many Reasons […]
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Escape Room Experience
My family and I were trapped in a room… We could only escape by unravelling a series of clues… We had one hour… Or else… Tick. Tick. For the next 60 minutes, my sisters, nieces, brother, brother-in-law and I bonded by working together to search for clues and decipher them. What is an Escape Room? […]
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TableTopics Conversation Starters
Great conversations bring people closer together. We might learn what makes someone happy, places they want to visit, funny stories from their past, or what makes them tick. When we get to know someone better, our relationship deepens. Many great conversations begin with great questions. TableTopics make it easy to start fun and memorable conversations […]
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Extreme Rock-Paper-Scissors
Remember playing rock, paper scissors? How about playing the game in a group setting to the extreme? My office of 90+ employees meet quarterly for awards, updates and training and just for fun, we incorporate “not your usual” team building activities. In this game, employees battle it out to see who is the Rock-Paper-Scissors champion […]
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House Book of Important Documents
Would your family know what steps to take if something tragic happened to you? It seems like a gruesome question to ask, but anything can happen so we should all prepare the best we can for such a scenario to happen to us. Death is hard enough to deal with. Your family will be grieving […]
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Couple’s Photo Shoot | One-Size-Fits-All Gift
Most of my friends and I have adult children. The question each year is “What do we give them for Christmas?” It was so much easier to pick out Christmas gifts when they were small, but as adults it’s difficult to surprise them. My friend shared her “stroke of genius” idea and came up with […]
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Recreate the Pose of a Famous Photo
My boss, Dennis, loves the Beatles. And yes, he’s a baby boomer! His favorite album is Abbey Road with John, Paul, Ringo and George walking across a striped crosswalk on the cover. The Beatles had many famous photo albums but this may be their fans’ most favorite. For one of his retirement gifts, I recreated […]
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State Parks Gift Certificates for Outdoor Enthusiasts
I named this website Sunburst Gifts because I believe the perfect gift makes someone light up like the sun and burst with happiness. Last month, I resigned from my job to pursue several entrepreneurship opportunities. When I opened my farewell gift from my work family of 12 years, I had the exact reaction I described […]
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Finding New Homes for Old Photos, Post Cards, Letters & Mementos
When people pass away, they leave behind their possessions which include old photos, post cards, letters and mementos. When it’s you who has to sort through it all after a parent, grandparent or siblings dies, it can be overwhelming. My mother-in-law broke her hip and we had to move her to a memory care nursing […]