This past weekend was our baby shower and it really was wonderful and very personal. We used the same manor house venue where we got married. It is an older estate on the property of my mom's condo townhouse, so it was free for her to use. It really was great to be surrounded by the same family and friends in the same building just about four years after we were married there.
My mom and her scrapbooker friend made all of the decorations and my former-chef aunt and her mother-in-law made all of the food. Again, it was amazing to be surrounded by so much love and effort from my family. My cousin (my very close, like-a-sister cousin) worked her butt off organizing the guest lists, games and keeping everything moving. She is something of an expert on showers and seems to know what everyone loves and hates about them, so she kept it going. My lovely college friends made an assembly line of gifts, then repacked everything neatly and kept a running list of gifts for thank you notes. They really had it all together!
We had about 50 guests, mostly extended family of mine and C's. Even his aunt who just gave birth on Monday was able to be there!
Of course, we got tons of clothes and blankets, but we also got our stroller and our infant car seat, as well as a high chair, playpen, jumperoo and a few other goodies.
C is pretty old school with some traditions and didn't want to hang around much, so after he helped valet cars for our older guests, he hid in the kitchen with my brother-in-law and my cousins scarfing down leftovers and watching the Phillies on TV. He did have to be summoned at one point, however, when a good friend gave us a Levi's denim jacket with a hand-embroidered back patch of his band's logo. :)
As of right now, we are still sorting, organizing and assembling our haul, as well as compiling a list of what we still need before Charley arrives. We got several cloth diapers, but we will likely need to gather some more before he is born. We did not get our bassinet, but we were pleased to discover last night that our playpen came with several bassinet and napper accessories and that it fits perfectly in the corner of our bedroom for those first few weeks.
Maybe we didn't have the biggest and grandest shower ever, but it was fun, well-planned and, most of all, it made it very clear how much Young Charles is loved already!
How many chicks do you know that have been to a scrapbooking convention and a tattoo convention in the same weekend? How many historians do you know that teach middle school science? I am a middle school teacher, metalhead and infertile wife just stuck here in the middle.
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