Ok, background. My parents, who I am LC with, have been friends with a couple for over 50 years. We used to holiday together when I was a child with their DC and we remained in very loose contact via social media.
When I went to university (20 odd yrs ago now) one of the DC (female) was in my classes and we would often sit together etc.
Anyway, this girl and I went on to have two children each and we both sent small gifts to each other for the births via our parents who still meet a couple of times a year.
Fast forward to now and she had a third child (quite a gap between 2 and 3). I didn't send a gift, for no other reason than it slipped my mind. We aren't in contact other than the odd 'like' on each others social media.
Anyway, today I met up with my parents and they had a gift for my third DC who was born in May (after her third DC who was born in April) my parents passed me a gift for my baby which was from the girl and now I feel awful because I never sent anything for her third DC.
I am going to send her a thank you card via post, but should I include a gift card or similar? Should I apologise or what's everyones thoughts?
I feel awful that I forgot to do this, it's very unlike me and I can only think that the reason is that I barely see my parents so this family hasn't come up in conversation etc. She is also very rarely active on SM so I wasn't reminded that way either.
Terrible excuses, I know 😕