The Owners' Manual - Issue 12 - Winter 2018

CLARE OLESEN (Meriden) The best gift I ever

received was Mother’s Day 2016. I am sharing this to encourage all you parents when you are having a day with your child that feels like this:

Know that your child is learning from everything you do and even if they never express it in words like those below – what you do really matters! I was unable to be with my daughters on Mother’s Day. I received this gift in the mail from my oldest daughter and saved it to open on Mothers Day. It brought me to tears and I still treasure it.

The card

Each small gift was labelled with a small card: