Birthday treat ideas for DD?

Voucher for an evening meal at a local restaurant

This is one v lucky daughter- what a lovely thoughtful mum she has.

Cinema vouchers for their local cinema and your offer to babysit would be good. A chance for them to get out and see an adult fim as they probably only get to see children's films these days.

I know you want her to treat herself but if she uses cinema vouchers to take all the family out then she is enjoying herself with her family, sees the film too and doesn't have to spend her hard-earned cash on it. Perfect! I'm not sure that it will go in a box with Lush products but is there an expensive item such as coffee she is fond of? We buy a big box of Nespresso for DD and SiL because that is the first thing to go when they are hard up. Otherwise a restaurant voucher for two.

Load a coffee card so she can have the odd treat or buy a box of latte packets to make herself a treat at home.I once went to a bath bomb making class,great fun and then I showed all my friends at home ,so much laughter !A short evening class for one evening is fun.Cake decorating supplies,she will need them at some stage.Good luck

Just bought my daughter a massage vouchers at the local beauty salon she always loves that as it s not something she’d ever spend money on herself

A good hand cream, trendy nail varnish, low calorie drinks.........

If they are hard up then buy her make up or bveauty items which she usually buys for herself, will save money and she'd be glad of them

The thing is justwoke that they already go to the cinema as a family so it doesn’t feel like much of a treat.

You’re all very good at this, I’m going to ask next time I want present ideas

Check out Ginny and Joy gift boxes. They are available for all sorts of occasions, lovely gifts, beautifully packaged. Google Ginny and Joy.

Day out, you and her and babies - nothing 'posh', a shopping mall with food bits, but where she can try on and you pay for new .... jeans, top, nice undies, whatever she fancies.

I love reading these ideas. Thinking back Id have loved a coffee credit card. Salon vouchers are brill too. The ideal is a treat excluding the children. Me time is restorative.
Top would be a mag sub though, e.g. is she into interiors..?

Brigid I love reading these ideas too, they're lovely, aren't they?

She does like interiors, they own their first home and it's a great house but a doer upper. We've given them help with this; bought things and proffered paint brushes. She tends to look at Pinterest or Instagram for ideas.

We do already babysit when DD and DSiL go out, though as I've said upthread DD won't leave her youngest with anyone yet as she's an insomniac.

For a recent birthday when Gdd was still under one but no longer breast fed, we paid for dd and son in law to have dinner, bed and breakfast - plus a Sunday morning lie in! - in a nice, fairly local hotel. Dh and I stayed the night at their house and babysat.
I did ask first whether she'd like it - answer was a definite yes! I explained the situation to the hotel, prepaid it all, and gave them the reservation/receipt printout to take.
It all went very well.