Baby Shower
Talking with Lois the other day and she mentioned the baby shower. I said to her that I didn’t think I’d have one. She was surprised, but when I explained why, I think it made sense.
One of my close girlfriends wouldn’t throw me one, as she’s not into babies or anything of the sort. My other close girlfriend isn’t into traditional western things, so wouldn’t really think to throw me one, and let’s face it, you don’t ask people to do this! My two other close girlfriends will be overseas from June to September or December, so neither of them will even be in the country, let alone think of me, so I guess that’s that.
Seriously though, I don’t think I’d agree to a baby shower anyway, as we really have quite a lot of stuff and it wouldn’t feel right expecting people to come over and bring presents.
Having said that, I’d love to have an arvo tea at our place with a few friends, just to have a sit and chat and catch up and stuff, cos I know my time will be limited after early August. Which brings me to the next bit. Would you be interested in coming over for that arvo tea? Course, it would just be arvo tea, yunno, a cuppa, some cakes and sweets and stuff. No presents or anything expected.
Send me a mail if you think you’d like to come and I’ll then see if it’s worth chucking this sort of a “do”. And yeah, baby showers are traditionally girly only things, but forget that. This ain’t a traditional girly sort of person you’re reading! So both genders welcome!
April 29th, 2005 at 7:47 pm
Would be interested, would come (likely with babe-in-arms of my own), and would bring small welcoming object for Albert / Kennedy! I can’t help myself, I love buying baby stuff…
May 1st, 2005 at 8:07 pm
Heh… might pop in and bring Renica along with me so you can all scare her with tales of horrible childbirth. *eg*
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:27 am
Hi Rae
Id love to come if you’d have me…….and of course there’s no party without pressies…
Michelle
May 2nd, 2005 at 12:14 pm
perhaps rather than a baby shower it could be a babyblogger gathering… i’d be happy to bring a) a pumpkin, b) a present c) some decent booze.
May 3rd, 2005 at 9:49 pm
I think as the mum to be it is all your decision. As a babyless person who has mostly babyless friends I still feel that I would happily celebrate the pending arrival of another munchkin. You guys deserve all the best wishes and spoils for your new family member.
May 4th, 2005 at 6:29 am
Maybe you can theme the not-really-a-shower shower so people don’t have to bring presents but something else that won’t cost money, such as *useful* parenting wisdom for a particular scenario (e.g. giving ‘the talk’ or something with equal humour potential) or a recipe for a dish (or cocktail!) that contains at least one ingredient that you currently aren’t allowed to have that you can collate to form a post-pregnancy recipe book. Have fun!
May 4th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Thanks guys! Sounds like there could be a good arvo tea here.
And thanks Kat. Some good ideas there for me. I’ll put some stuff together and put that into the invites….
May 4th, 2005 at 1:10 pm
Hi Rae,
Thanks for visiting me & your congrats.
I’m glad you’re progressing well, and well supplied.
We haven’t got anything yet. Knowing us we’ll be doing a lot of last minute running around and have about a billion little same things that people give us because we haven’t made a list. (Same thing happened at the engagement & wedding).
May 5th, 2005 at 7:40 am
Heh… I’m still bringing presents! I’m a present sort of person. (Actually, I’m just addicted to wrapping paper. Any excuse. *twitch*)