My mother in law told us that she wanted a new iron door installed on her house from all of her kids for her birthday. I had never heard such a strange request, and wondered how in the world we were going to pull it off. My husband is the only boy in his family, and only two of his three sisters are married. Those same two sisters and their families live about three hours away so having them come and help install an iron door was a little out of the question.

I started telling this story to my boss and he told me that he knew of a company that not only sold iron doors, but also installed them. I guess that they had installed some iron gates for him a few years ago and they did a great job. He highly recommended that I call them and just price out what it was that my mother in law wanted.

After talking with the company that had installed by boss’s iron gates, I felt really great about the whole iron door birthday gift. I was confident that each of the kids could afford their share of purchasing the door and having it installed. This was going to actually turn out to be one of the easiest birthday gifts that I had ever given.