frozenstellar

i want to do/give something to my girlfriends parents to say thank you for what will have been the past 6 weeks when i do/give it to them.

the situation is - we've been together for nearly 10months. before i came along, she was with a different guy pretty much every month. before we went out on our first date - her mum said to my gf that she should wait a while before getting involved with someone else, so did her father.

so already i started off on the wrong foot with her folks. but they still let me see their first daughter. many 'glares' were received from her mother, and more subtle ones from her dad, but they relaxed as i stuck around longer. this was still going on around xmas/new year.

fast forward to now. for the past 4 weeks, they've welcomed me to stay constantly over the semester break, except when i go home to go to work 3 days a week, but if i didnt have to, they wouldnt kick me out. they dont charge me board or anything, they ask nothing apart from that we do the house duties while they're both at work. i've been given a set of house keys, if i have to drop off/pick up their 2 younger children, they'll throw me their car keys so not to use my petrol, and will steal my keys so i dont refuse to drive their car.

basically - they're fucking awesome about everything, and see me as part of the family. and i want to do something to say thank you in a big way.

i've spoken to my gf about it - we've concluded that we're going to take them out for dinner to their favourite place, but i want to give them something while we're there, just to really drive the nail home.

....except, what do you give a happily married couple of 25 years who are quite well off?

i dont want to seem ungrateful that they've taken me in, but i dont want to overstep the line and insult them with a voucher for something, or what not. any ideas would be grand.