Baby Showers Suck — So Please Help Me Put One Together
I need ideas that don’t involve those stupid games
My best friend Angel is having a baby girl at the end of May. This is Angel’s second child. She has a little boy who will be two in August. Angel did the family thing late in life. She got married at 40, became a mother at 42. At 44, her dream family will be complete. She has always wanted nothing more than to be a wife and mother, preferably with a boy and a girl. She had to wait a long time for her dream, but it finally happened.
The birth of any child is special, of course, but Angel’s babies deserve a special celebration. She had quite a few miscarriages before little David John was born. At her age, of course, she’s a high risk pregnancy. Everything seems to be going well this time — even though Angel had COVID a few weeks ago. She has fully recovered, and little baby Faith seems to have been unaffected by it.
You would love Angel. Her name suits her — she’s ridiculously sweet and very deeply good. And because you and she would be friends if you were to meet, why don’t you help me brainstorm for this baby shower?
I despise traditional baby showers. Does anyone actually like those stupid games? Especially the game that involves melted chocolate in a diaper — I don’t even know how the game is played. I just know I want nothing to do with it.
For David John’s shower, I had an Advice Jar — it was everyone’s chance to give unsolicited parenting advice. They wrote it down and stuffed it in the jar. I also hid pacifiers around the house. Whoever collected the most won a prize — then we gave them all to Angel to keep. That’s it. The rest of the party was just a party. People ate and socialized.
Also, the theme of David John’s shower was Ahoy! It’s a Boy! and all the decorations were nautical — she was decorating his nursery in whales, so this way, she could keep some of the decorations and put them in his room. I’ll have to find out how they’re decorating for little Faith.
If you have ideas, drop them in the comments for me. I need your help!
