Are you having a shower? - Page 3

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i ordered my invitations today!

vistaprint was having a special--100 post cards for free! i got the color on the back, sot hat cost $10 extra, and i paid for shipping and envelopes. the total was $24.17! i really like them!

i also contacted my friend about catering. i'm psyched.

[AmyLaz]

Originally Posted by zoebird

i ordered my invitations today!

vistaprint was having a special--100 post cards for free! i got the color on the back, sot hat cost $10 extra, and i paid for shipping and envelopes. the total was $24.17! i really like them!

i also contacted my friend about catering. i'm psyched.

Fun! I'm working on my Mother Blessing invitations and hope to get them ordered tomorrow

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sweet! are you creating a ceremony or using one that is already done?

[AmyLaz]

Originally Posted by zoebird

sweet! are you creating a ceremony or using one that is already done?

My best friend and I are creating our own from what we're reading about them. She's hosting, but it'll be at my house b/c I have a good open living room. It'll be about 12-15 people at most, so very intimate. The cool thing is that most of my friends are very mainstream, but when I explain what the ceremony is about and talk about the rituals (like creating a birthing bracelet), they get all teary-eyed and think it's the best idea ever! :

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cool!

[MomtoTs]

No shower here, as this is #5. But, we will do what we have done for the last 2 children. At 2-4 weeks of age, we have a welcome party so everyone can meet the new baby. It's very casual, open house style, with drop in hours. Last time, we just had cake and some appetizer type things. We may do a cookout this time, since this is our first summer baby.

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i like that "open house" baby-hours idea. that's really great.

i've been trying to figure out how to manage people wanting to see the baby and such. . .and that might be a perfect option.

[triana1326]

Originally Posted by meredyth0315

Amanda, this made me sad. Well, I'd like to get something for you or baby whatever you prefer, and I mean it. PM me

Same goes for me - please PM me too...no one should have to deal with getting nothing. Every mother and baby deserves a gift!

[desertpenguin]

one of my friends mentioned doing a baby shower for me. i told her no, though. at first i didn't want to have one because during my 1st pregnancy i had two baby showers...the first one was really awkward because it was thrown by our church and (to be honest!) i can't remember most of the church members' names because i only vaguely know any of them (though dh grew up in that town so he knew them.) i felt like such a social retard during the whole thing. i really appreciated all of their kindness and generosity though, because we were totally piss poor at the time and it really helped. the second baby shower my cousins and aunt threw for me, and they told me to go register at Target, which we spent about an hour doing. then out of all of them, my best friend (the only person i actually invited) was the only one who even bought me anything off of the baby registry.

now i do kinda want to do a baby shower but i would want to do something untraditional like a BBQ because i think the baby games and stuff always seem so forced, at least at the baby showers i have attended. but we really only have about two couple friends that live here in OKC, and one of dh's aunts. and we don't really have the $$ for throwing one anyhow. there are some things that we would like, i've done a baby registry and posted the link on myspace...but with what happened last time i'm not holding my breath about getting anything that we actually want (like cloth diapers or 7th generation diapers...i'm pretty sure we'd end up with a bunch of Pampers/Huggies, etc.) thankfully we should be good to go as far as clothes are concerned. i will hopefully be getting hand-me-downs whether we have a boy or a girl. and part of me realizes that we don't really need all that much anyways, cuz we can make do with what i have saved from ds's infancy.

[letniaLynne]

We picked a date, July 12. I will already be 37wks pregnant so I hope I don't pop before the party. Invites should be going out early next week!

[goldfinch]

I'm not having a shower, but I *love* this idea! (Although this will fall right on my older children's birthday... and I'll still be recovering from a c-section... hmmm... maybe we better do a 10 to 12 weeks party! Last time, my babies were quarantined for the first 6 months so we couldn't have done anything like this... but I think it's a really nice idea.)

At 2-4 weeks of age, we have a welcome party so everyone can meet the new baby. It's very casual, open house style, with drop in hours. Last time, we just had cake and some appetizer type things.

[*Isra*]

Originally Posted by zoebird

i think that every baby should be celebrated!

My thoughts exactly! My first had the traditional 75+ baby shower, lunch, games, registry the whole deal. With this one, it's much smaller, 20 women meeting at a tea house. We are having an afternoon high tea, with scones, little sandwiches and of course tea. Very girly, thought it fits with me having a girl this time. I didnt do a registry, and we are not having traditional party games and I didnt mention no gifts or gifts or whatever. I hate placing restrictions, if people want to bring me one, fine, if they don't, fine. The point was to celebrate the upcoming arrival of our baby girl which is exactly what our invitation said.

Our first had very elaborate blue invites sent out, this time we went with evites!

Originally Posted by triana1326

Same goes for me - please PM me too...no one should have to deal with getting nothing. Every mother and baby deserves a gift!

mommytomahmoud~ PM me too! I mean it! Having a baby is a BIG thing.

[letniaLynne]

Tell me what you think of the wording

So this is the current wording for my baby sprinkling. Tell me what you think of it before my mom does all the printing and mailing.

"You are warmly invited to celebrate the coming addition to the Smith Family; a daughter! We know Andrea is truly looking forward to becoming a mom again and would really enjoy spending this quiet time before the birth with her closest womanly friends and family. Of course, children of all ages are welcome!
The pleasure of your company is the greatest gift, but should you like to give another, Andrea & David are registered at…"

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here are some edits:

"You are warmly invited to celebrate the coming addition to the Smith family: a daughter!

Andrea is truly excited to be a mom again, and she'd greatly enjoy spending time with her closest girlfriends and family. Of course, children are welcome!

The pleasure of your company. . ."

I found a few phrases to be a bit awkward in the center, and my husband and i debated about 7 words instead of "womanly" because it just seemed somehow off. Female seemed too clinical, but we couldn't think of others.

of course, disregard everything if you'd wish, except the colon, because that's important.

[Surfer Rosa]

I don't think so, nothing official, anyway
Generally, you don't "get" a shower for a second (third, fourth...) baby around here-just the first. People still bring gifts, but it's not the hoopla as it is with the first.
I had two showers with my first-one at school, and one with friends. As I grew up in another city, when DD was about a month old, my mom has a "Welcome to the world!" party for her, and hosted a little afternoon shindig for her. It was pretty low-key, which is more our style. I liked that it was all our friends-not just the females (and not a shower game in sight, phew!)

[Chula13]

My sister is coming from California in June to do one for me but it will be very small and almost entirely family. I'm really not in to silly games and such but I told her she can do a few as long as it's not an all about me kind of thing, I just hate being the center of attention. The only thing I think will be an issue is when people find out I don't want disposables cause I'm cding , no one in my family does it and I am sure people will tell all about why it's not a good idea. I also asked for no bath products because I know people in my family will just by J&J crap.

[quietasariot]

Have friends/family already mentioned a shower? Yes. One of my closest friends here mentioned it pretty soon after I took the pregnancy test. I was a bit surprised, since this is our second child. But she asked if I'd been thrown a shower with my first, and I had not.

When will it be held? June 14. Two of my friends are organizing it, and they are both going back to the USA for vacation in July/August, so we all decided June would be best!

What type of shower do you envision? Just a small get together to celebrate the upcoming arrival of this little one!

Mine will be taking place at a little restaurant here, but they regularly have huge reservations. I'm excited because most of my friends here are very much pro-breastfeeding, so I'm not getting any bottles for the shower - lol - and many know I'm going to be cloth-diapering, so I registered at nickisdiapers.com :P. Plus another friend is working on trying to make her own cloth diapers, so she's making me one as a tester... hehe.

[AKA_PI]

Thank you Etiquette

I'm having a shower next month, hosted by my mom and aunt but my 4 girlfriends are helping with everything from setup and food, to games and favors. Should I just give them thank you cards or gift a little gift to each?

[nhklh]

One of my lovely friends has offered to organise and host a blessingway for me. It'll be a small gathering in late June, with about half a dozen close friends. We're doing candle lighting, and everyone will bring a bead. No gifts or games or anything. Oh yes and this is our 2nd child (the 1st in my body).

[letniaLynne]

Originally Posted by zoebird

here are some edits

THANKS a bunch that actually does sound better!