Many lovely suggestions, but I only have a few days,( it is this weekend) as I only found out about this party a week or so ago. Hubby failed to share. I think the other son has some sort of photo thing sorted out, but I am not sure. He and his oldest girl (12y/o) are making soup.
@bkcunningham Music is a no-no, for the most part, because MIL is deaf in one ear and if there is background noise she can’t hear a thing. Nice thought, though. You just made me remember something she does love, and that is fresh flowers, so I will substitute ‘flowers’ for ‘music’ in your suggestion. ;o)
@gailcalled Yes, my husband is their son. He will probably be used to go pick up stuff from the store, and get us booked on a flight to get there, but he hasn’t planned or done anything in preparation, no. He still hasn’t finalised travel plans for us to get down there, nor were we even sure he would be in the country, as he is in East Africa and just booked his flight home this morning and he asked me to NOT make travel plans for me and little man on our own. Cutting it fine, as always, he will be home Wednesday evening. He will need to book our flights to Oslo so we arrive not too late on Friday. FIL is very gentle and sweet, so I am very sure he will enjoy the day.
We have many of the things they had in their family home because we still live in the city they raised the boys in. When the family home was sold, Hubby ended up with many boxes of things from the old house. My MIL was a high school teacher and my FIL was a University professor and researcher. I found my MIL’s school slate and pencil box that she used when she was a little girl in the 1940’s. It still has old coloured pencils in it! I might find a way to mount them in some sort of shadowbox? I think if I dug around, I might find an old notebook of hers or a text book with her name on the inside.