So here
are the activities that I planned for the shower:
1.
I
planned to hand make birthday cards for the baby for the next 20 years and have
everyone that came to the party pick out a card and right a. Birthday note to
the child for the first 20 years of his life.
2.
I
bought thank you notes to have everyone self-address.
3.
And
for games we did candy bar in the diaper one
4.
A
match the candy with the pregnancy/delivery related word.
On top
of this I have been making baby blankets and baby related things for the past
several baby showers I have attended ... so I did that for this shower as well.
All of this wouldn't have been that overwhelming had I started a lot earlier...
but that didn't really happen. I finally bought the stuff to make my baby
blanket and baby stuff the week (Friday before)... planning to get as much done
if not all of it done …but that Saturday we ended up spending the whole day
with family it was awesome fun... but not productive. I So I finally started
making it that Sunday before after church. After I got the blanket made I
realized that I had forgotten to prewash the fabric. A major opps! L*Note
to self - Always prewash fabric when you sew... so you know what size the
fabric is going to be before you starting cutting and stitching. I ran out of
time Sunday to do anything more than the blanket.
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| The completed baby blanket |
I also
got very little done during the week since I started cooking again this week…
and since I still haven’t been feeling well with a bed time by like 8:30. :( I
was also a weee bit of a procrastinator... surprise, surprise … I know! :/ So
Thursday night I tried to get as much of the baby “stuff” made… but did not get
it all done. Friday I got all the materials for the “Birthday cards” and was up
to sometime around 1 am trying to finish the “baby stuff” and “birthday cards”.
I was unsuccessful of course. I was so close to being done sewing… but I messed
something up and I needed to seam rip it out...but my eyes were too tired to
see the thread any more… so it had to wait till morning. I was also able to get
most of the cards done with only 5 remaining to finish… but I just had to go to
bed and I figured I would just plan to be out of bed by 6am.
Well,
that was the “plan”, but I didn’t get out of bed until almost 7am and had to
drag myself out of it at that time. So I made myself of cup of coffee, took
care of the puppies, finished the “birthday cards” and then sat down to finish
sewing. It is now like 8amish. I am “supposed to be at the host house by 9am to
set up and get things ready before the 10:30am shower and I still have to make
the food I am bringing!!! ERK!!! L I HATE to be late to
things! I feel soo rude when I am! L But at this point I
was doing everything I could to get out of the house as quickly as possible.
Oh
and do you remember how I mentioned a surprise in the title? Well that surprise
came while I was preparing Monkey bread and making fruit dip. My phone rang… I
looked at it and saw my BFF from Florida calling… didn’t answer because I was a
little busy/ stressed. But, then she called again. So I figured since she
didn’t usually do that I should answer and see what was going on. So I did, but
I put her on speaker so I could multi task. She asked me what I was doing that
night or Sunday and.. of course I said why (because she lives in Florida and I
live in Texas). She informed me that her husband is currently in Houston on
business and she would possibly be able to come in… that night by like 7pm!! So
of course I said yes…. Come… I will make time for you!! So she got off the
phone and bought her ticket and I got off the phone and continued to run around
the house like a chicken with my head cut off. I finished up my sewing… I got
my Monkey Bread prepared faster than I have ever prepared it before and whipped
together my fruit dip like Speedy Gonzalez.
So now it is like 9ish… but I still
have to get everything loaded in the car and the dogs put away… oh… and get
dressed!! I picked out my outfit and was ready in like 5-10 minutes. High Five
self! JI was able to get loaded and get to the host
house by like 9:45-10ish. Oh, and since I only had enough time to prepare my
Monkey bread and not bake it… it got to go in the oven as soon as I got in the
host home. Which kind of sucked because everyone else had their food in there
staying warm and I had to have them take it out so that my unorganized, procrastinating
self could finish making my food contribution. To make things even worse for me
is that they were almost all done with the decorating and I hadn’t been there
to help. I felt like such a failure!!! Boo hoo! I suck!
But
once I got over myself failings... I calmed myself enough I was able to see how
great everything looked and thoroughly enjoyed the shower and the company. God
has blessed and surrounded me with an amazing group of girls!!
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| "The Girls" |
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| Mom to be with my homemade baby blanket |
Later Saturday
afternoon we got together with Byron's family for his dad's birthday. Byron's
little nieces were so excited to see him. Dinner was ok... the service a little
rocky... splitting the checks... a disaster... the company... Great!
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| Byron and our little nieces! |
My BFF landed in Houston around 7. Originally I had planned to go see her at the hotel once she landed... but I was whooped and so ready for bed. So we agreed that she and her husband would meet at my house in the morning to go to church and Sunday school with lunch and a "bike" ride afterwards. But this story is for another post on another day.
Hope you have a great day!! see you soon!!
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