What’s the Best Gift You’ve Ever Given or Received?

At my age I've receive many wonderful gifts. When my son was about 8 years old he saved his allowance and bought me a lighted makeup mirror for Mother's Day. How many 8 year olds will give up their allowance!!
For practical purposes I love the remote car start my daughter got for me 2 years ago. It helps me face the ice and snow of winter a little easier.

My best gift was my husband...we married on the 21st twelve years ago!

A trip to Montreal for 10 days.

The best gift I have ever recieved was a pug puppy who I names Jake. The best dog ever.

The best gift I ever gave was a wine making kit to my father upon his retirement. I knew he would need a hobby to keep him busy. Like everything in life, he took on wine making with great passion - actually researching starting his own vineyard the year before he died.

He loved that wine making kit, because to him, every batch was a new great creation he could call his own. He died with a batch of white and a batch of red in their final stages of fermentation. My mom bottled up the batches and gave me and my siblings bottles of each.

I will never drink these bottles of wine, because to me, I have the spirit of my father captured in those bottles of wine with me in my house every day.

I've read a lot of the responses here and the original post, and I'm afraid I don't have anything so moving! The best gift I can remember giving (at least in terms of how happy the giftee was about it) is a sweater to my brother. Sounds dumb, right? I guess he finds himself difficult to fit--sleeves are never long enough for him/his taste--and I stumbled upon a Perfect Sweater. Who knew?

The best gift I have been given is my children and grandchildren.

Several years ago, my husband took silent note of the wreck I was turning myself into for the holidays. We have two autistic children, and preparing for the holidays in addition to my already hectic so-called “normal” day was taking a toll. As his job was requiring late hours and weekends due to the holidays, I did all of the shopping and decorating, along with the extra baking and required candy making. The children were at the expected frantic level of excitement. By Christmas Eve, I was exhausted. After the children were finally in bed and presents deposited under the tree, my husband told me to go on to bed. I quickly fell asleep, while he stayed up. When I got up in the morning, it was to the best Christmas present I had ever received. He stayed up late into the night and cleaned the whole house! When I later told my brother (then a bachelor), he said that he couldn’t imagine ever loving someone that much!

My best gift I ever received was the engagement ring from my husband

My favorite material gift was a laptop from my husband. Unfortunately, he threw it out the third story window 6 months later when he got mad at me. I no longer have a laptop...or a husband ;)