Christmas Presents

Hey Family,
Neil and I were chatting when I was in Antigonish yesterday and we want to throw something out there.
Our thought is to not buy each other any presents and instead pool the money together for mom. After meeting with the lawyer yesterday it hit me that she is in a tough financial situation (I know you guys aleady knew this and are probably saying "duh").
I propose that we each put $100 into a card for mom and then take the other $50 to spend on stuff that makes christmas like hot ham sandwhiches, snacks, big breakfast etc, christmas dinner. Stuff that mom would normally spend money on. What do you think?
Who does mom have for a present? THat person would be the only person to receive anything but maybe whoever that is can just ask mom to give them money and then we can add that to the pot?
We also know that she would be disappointed if we didn't have any presents to give each other so we were thinking that we could make something and wrap it. Sucks for whoever's name I have but Beth has my name and I know she is creative!
So let me know what you think. I know we are all procrastinators and probaby no one has any gifts bought yet anyway :)

Love you,
T :)