laurajetter
Mouseketeer<br><Font color="red">The Tag Fairy thi
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- May 19, 2004
I wasn't expecting nor necessarily wanting a baby shower for my second baby but my mom said she and my sister decided that they wanted to throw one. I know how she goes all out for these things, gets herself all exhausted making tons of food, etc. and I told her I didn't really need one since I have most everything, especially since I'll be having another boy at the same time of year. She was saying how I should use it as an opportunity to get some gifts that could help me out (she's probably thinking about the fact that we are tight on money since I've been laid off). The other thing is, our house is small and we don't have much space for a bunch of new stuff (although new things are always fun to have!); as it is, we're trying to majorly declutter our house to make room.
I told her if she has one I'd really want to keep it low-key, and maybe not invite as many people as we did the first time. Even though we're not agreed on that issue at the moment, I would at least like to mention in the invitation that if they choose to bring gifts that the items I am most in need of are x, y and z. The problem is, I'm really having trouble thinking of what items to write.
I know there are probably things you can always use or having replacements would be helpful, but I'm having trouble thinking back and wanted some suggestions. The only thing I can think of is socks... we were always running out of socks! The trouble is we do quite a bit of natural parenting which would probably make it hard for others to shop for us. For instance, we will be cloth diapering so getting a bunch of disposables won't help us that much. We don't use pacifiers and such... I just can't think of other useful items to tell people (although I'm sure we're forgetting some things that I'll probably realize later would've been nice to have new).
Does anyone have suggestions of what might be helpful the second time around?
I told her if she has one I'd really want to keep it low-key, and maybe not invite as many people as we did the first time. Even though we're not agreed on that issue at the moment, I would at least like to mention in the invitation that if they choose to bring gifts that the items I am most in need of are x, y and z. The problem is, I'm really having trouble thinking of what items to write.
I know there are probably things you can always use or having replacements would be helpful, but I'm having trouble thinking back and wanted some suggestions. The only thing I can think of is socks... we were always running out of socks! The trouble is we do quite a bit of natural parenting which would probably make it hard for others to shop for us. For instance, we will be cloth diapering so getting a bunch of disposables won't help us that much. We don't use pacifiers and such... I just can't think of other useful items to tell people (although I'm sure we're forgetting some things that I'll probably realize later would've been nice to have new).
Does anyone have suggestions of what might be helpful the second time around?