February 18th I had my first shower. It was just beautiful and given
by my high school girlfriends. And their Moms were invited plus a few
guy friend Moms that we were all close with. It was so wonderful to see
everyone!!! On top of that, they totally spoiled me and baby girl with
so many amazing gifts. I was overwhelmed by how generous they were.
And it was just a fun time - long awaited - and I had worried before
hand that I would get all emotional. But I didn't - it was just fun and
happy!
That weekend we were also prepping for the
house to be painted and carpet done. So Bear had been working on that
while I was away at the shower. I came home and he had moved most of
the 2 extra rooms into the garage, and was cleaning out the kitchen and
the living room. My pregnant brain was completely overwhelmed by the
major mess everywhere! I was happy he was doing it - it had to happen -
but I thought my nesting pregnant brain may explode at the sight of it
all. PLUS, I had a car full of gifts to unload. I tried not to freak
out. And I did hold it together, but barely. I decided to put all the
shower gifts in my closet - thank goodness we do have quite a bit of
storage space in our house! Then I proceeded to clean out baby girls
closet and the guest closet into various places in the house. I managed
to fit it all in the hall closet and coat closet by the front door for
the most part.
Then February 23rd, my coworkers hosted a shower for me. It was
also completely amazing - above and beyond anything I could imagine!
Plus, my old RF friends came over too. They gave me even more wonderful
baby items - so cute! - and even had diet punch for my GD. It was a
lot of fun! And when I got home those gifts had to go in the kitchen - I
just wasn't OK with putting them in the garage at that point.
Then on February 25th my sister and cousins had put together a
family and friends shower in Lexington. It was once again amazing! My
sister did a fabulous job of getting it together. Aunt Amanda :-) She
did the cake and made a very cute bouquet out of socks and wash cloths!
And everyone there once again spoiled, spoiled, spoiled us all with
amazing things for baby girl. My cousin gave me TWO amazing gift
baskets packed full of everything little girl. My favorite - the cutest
little flip flops ever. So cute. And everyone else gave amazing
things too of course. (I haven't gotten the pictures yet or I would share)
And my final shower was on March 3 in Dime Box. It was just as
wonderful and amazing as all the others. They gave us our stroller and
we had fancy drinks with real stemware and we ate on real plates! It
was just really nice - and once again everyone went above and beyond to
shower us and our little girl with so much love and so many cute CUTE
baby things. There were also fabulous favors - decorated sugar cookies. And yes, I did eat some. And no, I won't tell you what my blood sugar was after :-)
I have been truly overwhelmed by everyone's generosity. I don't even know how to accurately describe how it feels. We are very thankful. And this baby is truly loved :-)