The ladies at our Church are giving me a shower for this baby. Since I've never had a shower for the previous babies it will be nice to finally have that experience. However its our 3rd baby in as many years so we really, really don't need any more "stuff." Even our clothing for the first few sizes are almost all gender neutral because we never find out gender ahead of time. Since I have nothing to register for we decided it would make more sense to just have a "book shower" as it is impossible to have too many books, and if we get duplicates no worries, it just means we have copies to replace the ones my oldest destroys. (He has gone through several board books since Christmas where he peels back the layers of paper that make the boards just to see how it works then asks us to "help again" by putting them back together, which unfortunately most of them have been beyond repair.)
We actively discourage people bring us meals. We do have a few unusual food allergies here, but mostly we are just very choosy not only about ingredients, but how food is cooked, and I don't feel it is appropriate to ask other people to make food around our preferences, especially when nobody we know eats the way we do. Almost everyone we know IRL eats the SAD way. We eat a low glycemic index diet, with organic produce & dairy and pasture raised/finished meat, with no pork products at all, and hardly any shellfish (very occasional shrimp is about it.) We know that the way we eat is very different to everyone around us, so we would rather not waste the time and money other people put in to providing meals. Instead I'm doubling up and feeding the freezer the extras, and I'll probably do a few days of bulk prep & freeze for crockpot meals too.
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