My (our) baby shower was yesterday... and it was absolutely perfect. My sister really out did herself. Between the venue (Wolfgang Puck Solaro), all the decorations (handmade of course), the food (delish), and the 900 gifts we received from everyone- it was just fabulous.
It's a funny feeling being "showered," ok wait... being the center of a shower... no, still not right.... having someone throw a party for you, specifically for people to just give you gifts. It's wonderful, of course, to have all these people attend and help celebrate your nuptials, your forthcoming spawn, or... whatever else they throw showers for. But at the same time when it takes you 2 hours to open all of your gifts, it feels like you have to rush through opening everything, but you still want to visibly show your appreciation for each tissue wrapped gift. The further along we got, the more I realized if it were only a little stronger material, I could diaper every child in India with the amount of tissue paper in our gifts.
Halfway through the gifts, my sister held a raffle with the most adorable scratch off cards we found at Etsy.com.
I couldn't wait to get home and (have Sarah) put everything away, and after all the diapers were stored away and the endlessly cute onesies hung in order of age, I truly felt blessed to have so many people already love our child. And all my sister had to say was, "Hey! You have stuff now!"
Yes, yes we do.... gratefully.
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