The day is finally here for my sister’s baby shower. After months of planning, I finally get to see if all my efforts turn out the way I expect from the cupcakes to the games to the prizes. Will the baby shower be a success or a failure? I arrived at my sister’s mother-in-law’s house at ten o’clock with my two of my younger sisters. I talked briefly to the woman of the house and then set to work with the help of my sisters bringing in all the “stuff” for the baby shower. Once that was done, my sisters … Continue reading →

Today is the day of the baby shower for my thirty three weeks pregnant sister. The preparations for this baby shower have been ongoing for the past several months. Things really were put into high gear about three weeks ago with the writing and sending of the baby shower invitations. The planning continued yesterday as I made six dozen cupcakes, got together all my supplies for the baby shower games and items needed for preparing and frosting the six dozen cupcakes, I picked up the flowers for both the door prizes and cupcake decoration, and many other miscellaneous items (like … Continue reading →

I am still in in the middle of planning a baby shower for my sister who is thirty-three weeks pregnant. She and her husband live out of state and will be traveling “home” for a quick visit, which means this is the only opportunity to throw her a baby shower for her first child. The invitations have been written, addressed, stamped (with floral stamps), and sent. I have even received a few RSVP’s; four out of fifty so far. While the invitations were initially my biggest concern, now that there written and sent, I can focus my energy on more … Continue reading →

I am in the midst of planning a baby shower for my younger sister. Perhaps this is an odd thing to write about for a “pregnancy blog” but since I am also pregnant, I have found that pregnancy also affects one’s ability to plan a baby shower. My sister and I were always close growing up especially in junior high and high school and we remained close through college, but for the past five years we have lived more than just miles apart. Now that my husband and I have finally moved back to our home town, my sister and … Continue reading →

Baking is something I have not done in a long time. I absolutely love to bake and have been baking pretty regularly since I was eight years old. The only time I have not felt inclined to bake has been during my first trimesters. Of course there have been times when I really want to bake and choose not to given the amount of “empty calories” I tend to eat when I bake; and it is really hard to lose the baby weight with a dozen freshly baked chocolate chip cookies tempting me to indulge. Most recently, I gave up … Continue reading →