Father's Day Gifts - Austin,TX

A wonderful photograph of his granddaughters! (Or of both him and his granddaughters, if you have one.) And maybe some artwork and notes from them, if they're old enough.

You can make a collage of photos of him and the girls and add some of their artwork as fillers and put them in a frame.
I don't know if you sew or not, but go to the fabric store. They have wonderful kits for making blankets that are really easy. Some of them you can even transfer photos onto. Some are "no sew". He might really enjoy having a blanket that he can cuddle up with or have on his lap while he's resting. Perhaps make two and that way, each girl can have one after he's gone. My daughter treasures her Doo-Dah blankets and she's 23.
There are so many ideas and things you can do. I'm sure he'll treasure whatever they give him.
Just be sure to let them see him as often as they can.

Time is more precious than anyting.

Best wishes.

I am so sorry to hear about this. My best friend's mother died of pancreatic cancer a year ago. Is there something he's never had the opportunity to do but would like to? Maybe give him tickets for the Cedar Park Hill Country Flyer (antique train that travels to Burnet for the day) with you and your family? Take him sailing on Lake Travis A trip to the beach, a weekend at a lake/river house with family. Now, non of these things are cheap but this would be a good way to spend quality time with him.

My husbands father had a few key sayings that he "lived by" (his dad passed away a few yrs back but this may be even more special to give to your father in law at this point) What I did was type up those sayings on a really nice paper and at the top put "From the desk of..................then type the quotes/sayings and at the bottom put his name (hope I'm making sense here). You could even do something like "What we've learned from Grandpa" and list some special things from each of you. I put it in a frame and it really turned out nice. All the best to you and your family in the coming months.

Hi L.,
I have made a coffee mug (to go mug from Starbuck to make a picture collage) full of pictures of our son for my hubby and last year I got a tshirt from Walmart & some fabric paint & put our son's foot & hand prints on it with the year. If your FIL drinks coffee or anything, anything with pictures of your family is something I think he'll treasure! Shutterfly.com has great gift ideas w/ pictures. Mother's Day is an occasion I make calendars for my mom, stepmom & MIL with pictures of the past year. There are lots of ideas there. I hope you can find something he will like. I'm sorry to hear of the diagnosis but pray that he will be comfortable in the time he has left. God Bless.

Do you have time to make him a photo album or scrapbook? Personal memories make the best gift. (My best Mother's Day gift ever was when my college age daughter put together a photo album with quotes on each page saying things she loved/appreciated about me.)

Be sure to plan for the girls to spend time with him doing "grandpa things", especially when he is still feeling well. My brother died of pancreatic cancer in 1990, so times have changed, but he did well at first and did not feel so well towards the end.

I do not know how old your girls are, but be sure to be honest with them as their grandpa gets sicker. Kids are much smarter than we give them credit for; you obviously have to be age appropriate with the information, but do not try to "protect" them. My sister-in-law tried that with my niece because she believed that 6 was too young to be told anything. It caused my niece to regress after her father died, talking baby talk and sucking her thumb.

Sorry for digressing, but I thought my personal experience might be helpful later on.

A digital picture frame loaded with pictures of his family would be nice. It can scroll through lots of pictures, and the memory card can be reloaded. Some also play music which might be soothing as well. There are also picture frames that just hold a regular picture but you can record a message to be heard when the button is pushed. That might be really nice for him to look at your family picture and hear a message like you love him.

This may sound weird, but I had some nunie juice purchased for my dad. We prayed over it and gave it to him to drink because he has prostrate cancer. He is doing fine thank God. It is a Tahitian drink and supposedly it tastes awful but it is suppose to be really good at cleaning the system or impurities. Daddy mixed it with veggies in his juicer. He is up and about now. I think he takes chemo pills. This is just a thought. I will be praying.

Anything hand made... go to the craft store and look around. How old are your girls? If they are old enough to crochet (I learned at 6) they can make him a lap blanket that he can take with him to treatments. It wont take too long to make. Or, there are those pre-made ones that you just finish off. I have also seen those fleece blankets- just pick out something he would like in a 4ftX4ft size ( a little bigger to make the knots) and cut slits in the fabric 1/2-1 inch apart and knot together. There are all sorts of fleece out there. Then he can take it with him when he goes to treatments and know why he is in treatment in the first place :)

Time with him. That's all he needs or wants at this point.

How about making a scrapbook for him with photos of everyone with him? Each person could do 1 or 2 pages and on those pages put your favorite photos of you with him and then fill the page with your favorite memories with him or of him. You could even write how much he means to you. You could get the whole family involved and have everyone create their own pages and then put them together to create one album. If you just want it to be from you and the girls, then you could all create multiple pages and let the girls draw photos of him in there and let them put their own artwork in there for him with the photos.
You could also include letters from you to him in there as well.

I love the idea of a blanket! My grandfather died of pancreatic cancer a few years ago now, and he was so cold at the end (because he lost so much weight). A sweet blanket that your girls made would always remind him of them. A scrapbook would also be a nice gift. My siblings and I made one for our Poppop before he died (that we also put out at his funeral for others to see), and my grandmother said he looked through it every day even when she had to hold it for him.

I am so sorry to hear about your impending loss...it is a terrible disease.

All I think it would be great gifts

* Cozy blanket with or without picture of family or grandchildren.
* Get a photographer by friends or family and have a family picture with him like him with his own grandchildren or whole family.
* get a book from www.iseeme.com and get ME and YOU :Memories for grandchild (ren). He can keep it till it pass to your girls for them to keep.
*rent a beach house with whole family for the long weekend or week.
* make a dvd movie pictures of him since you met him, your husband's childhoods, met your mother in law, or his childhood till now.

God bless you all.

A scrap book with all the pictures of him with his grandchildren, the things that they did together along with maybe a homemade dvd of them doing some of their activities that he knows that they do and that he has not been able to see;. Time with the girls, this is for both of them while they still have him, important for him also, but he will start getting tired after awhile, maybe a movie that they can all sit around and watch together, some old stories of family as to what his kids did to get into trouble or fun things that they did, he will get a kick along with the girls, Straight from his mouth remember.

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God bless your family :)

A scrapbook or blanket as the others metioned is a great idea, or also give him a journal to write in about his life so that even after he passes, his legacy will be remembered for you and your family. Take care and God bless.