• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact + Collaborate
  • Privacy Policy
  • Nav Connect

    Subscribe Via Email 

    • Bloglovin
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Snapchat
    • Twitter

Whimsical September

A Family + Lifestyle Blog

  • Favorite Things
  • Motherhood
    • Pregnancy
    • Registry
    • Slice of Life
    • Potty Training
    • A Day in the Life
    • All The Feels
    • Activities/Crafts
    • Hadley’s B-days
    • Sadie’s B-Days
  • Military Life
    • PCSing
    • Home Ownership
    • Deployment 2011-2012 (Afghanistan)
    • Deployment 2013 (Afghanistan)
    • Deployment 2015-2016 (Kuwait)
    • West Point Days
    • Friendships
    • Other
  • Travel
    • With Little Ones
    • Beaches/Tropical
    • Disney World
    • Europe
    • More Fun Places
  • Home + DIY
    • Before and After Home Tour
    • Bathrooms
    • DIY Projects
    • Painting Projects
    • Bedrooms
    • Kitchen
    • Playroom
  • Style + Beauty
    • Stitch Fix Reviews
    • Fashion
    • Make Up + Skin Care
  • Recipes
    • Meats
    • Side Items
    • Desserts
    • Comfort Food
    • Pasta
    • Healthy Choices
    • Christmas
  • Blogging
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact + Collaborate
  • Privacy Policy
  • Nav Connect

    Subscribe Via Email 

    • Bloglovin
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Snapchat
    • Twitter

Gift Ideas 8 Comments

Milestone Birthday Ideas: One Memorable Way to Celebrate Your Loved One

Milestone birthday ideas: This inexpensive gift idea is designed to make your loved one feel celebrated and loved by friends and family all over the world!

You guys! I received news yesterday morning that had me bouncing off the walls! I’m so (so so so so) excited!

One of you incredible readers nominated this post and set of photos to receive BlogHer’s “Voices of the Year” award, and it was selected as one of the top honorees! I was so shocked when I got the email that I thought it was spam! Ha! I’m humbled and thrilled and surprised and just plain excited to get to NYC this summer to soak up this opportunity and be in the presence of some really great trail-blazing bloggers and authors. Whoop! If you were the one who nominated me, I’d love to hug you and just say thanks!

Milestone Birthday Ideas

Anyway! Let’s get to today’s post. If you have a loved one who has a milestone birthday coming up and you’re looking to do something a little special, I might just have one of the best milestone birthday ideas!

A few weeks ago my mother-in-law turned the big 5-0 (though she doesn’t look a day over 40 honestly!), and I’d been brainstorming for weeks how to make her day/week/month a little more memorable. After browsing Pinterest over and over again for creative ideas, I decided to combine a few ideas that fit what I was looking for and quickly got to work!

I ordered 4″x6″postcards from Vistaprint.com that looked like this on the front…

Milestone birthday ideas: This inexpensive gift idea is designed to make your loved one feel celebrated and loved by friends and family all over the world.

…and this on the back.

Milestone birthday ideas: This inexpensive gift idea is designed to make your loved one feel celebrated and loved by friends and family all over the world.

I went ahead and put stamps on them and stuffed them into colorful envelopes ready to head out to all of her family and friends. I also included a note in each envelope that explained to everyone what I was doing. Basically I asked each recipient to think of his or her favorite memory with Tonya, write it on the postcard, and mail it to her by a specific date.

I debated having everyone mail them back to me so that I could present them to her all at once, but I thought it would be more fun for her mailbox to get flooded several days in a row with sweet words from her loved ones.

Sure enough almost everyone played along and showed her lots of love and gave her tons of laughs.

I also bought her this 4″x6″ photo album to put all of the postcards in so that she has a nice organized place to keep these memories for years to come.

Milestone birthday ideas: This inexpensive gift idea is designed to make your loved one feel celebrated and loved by friends and family all over the world.

I spilled the beans a few days early that she should expect a little bit of fun mail in the days to come. She told me she loved it!

Have you ever done anything like this before? They are so many fun ways to personalize it!

More: Throwing my father-in-law a surprise 60th birthday party

Milestone birthday ideas: This inexpensive gift idea is designed to make your loved one feel celebrated and loved by friends and family all over the world.

Erica
Erica

Hi! I’m Erica, and I absolutely adore sharing my life on this website with you! I come here almost daily to blab about all of the things related to being a regular wife and mother in today’s ever-evolving society. I share about our new home, what’s on our kitchen table, what we’re hanging in our closets, where we’re traveling to next, my crazy 5 a.m. work outs, how I make time for girlfriends, our faith, and much more. We always have a lot of balls in the air and somewhat thrive on the chaos. I believe in the power of story-telling as a form of inspiration and entertainment, so I’m here to do both! I was born and raised in north Alabama and recently re-planted roots here again after my husband transitioned out of the Army (he is now in the Reserve and it’s going so well!) I’m a super proud mom to three little girls (ages 7, 4, and 1) who seem to be the stars of the show around here (for good reason – they’re pretty great!) I’m so glad you found me and are here reading! I hope we can get to know each other here on the blog as well as Facebook and/or Instagram. xoxo

April 14, 2015

Previous Post: « Recycled Rides: Nominate a TX Veteran Now for a New Car!
Next Post: Selling Our Tennessee Home: Two Weeks Until Closing »

Primary Sidebar

Meet Erica

Hi! I’m Erica, and I absolutely adore sharing my life on this website with you!

I come here almost daily to blab about all of the things related to being a regular wife and mother in today’s ever-evolving society. I share about our new home, what’s on our kitchen table, what we’re hanging in our closets, where we’re traveling to next, my crazy 5 a.m. work outs, how I make time for girlfriends, our faith, and much more. We always have a lot of balls in the air and somewhat thrive on the chaos.

I believe in the power of story-telling as a form of inspiration and entertainment, so I’m here to do both! I was born and raised in north Alabama and recently re-planted roots here again after my husband transitioned out of the Army (he is now in the Reserve and it’s going so well!) I’m a super proud mom to three little girls (ages 7, 5, and 1) who seem to be the stars of the show around here (for good reason – they’re pretty great!)

I’m so glad you found me and are here reading! I hope we can get to know each other here on the blog as well as Facebook and/or Instagram. xoxo

Everywhere

Footer

Instagram did not return a 200.

Follow On Instagram

Whimsical September © 2025 · Blog Design by Freeborboleta · Built On The Genesis Framework

[jetpack_subscription_form title=”SUBSCRIBE” subscribe_text=”Keep up with Erica & Whimsical September by receiving new post notifications in your inbox. This is the easiest way to never miss a new post! What they’re eating, what they’re doing, where they’re going… she shares it all!”]