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I feel so bad for my mom... (Long)
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My second baby shower was yesterday. This one was thrown by my mom. She has been so super excited about this LO and did a whole theme surrounded around the theme of our nursery (stars, moons and teddy bears).
However, Mother Nature is a jerk. We weren't supposed to get snow until after 4pm yesterday and instead 7 inches of snow fell in Philadelphia, along with a sheet of ice starting at noon - and my shower was supposed to start at 1pm. When I arrived to the restaurant, my mom and I were the only people there. Out of 25 RSVPs, only 6 people showed up (and DH and my brother came).
She put in so much hard work. She hand made all the favors (mason jars with blue candy), made a banner with my bump pictures, she got this huge beautiful cake, and organized two games (a baby word scramble and a match the candy to the PR/BR-related terms, ex. "epidural" = LifeSavers). She worked on all this for weeks and I know spent a lot of money.
She said it doesn't matter and she was more worried about me, but I know this crushed her. I kept telling her how beautiful everything looked and how much I appreciated everything and that our LO was lucky to have her. I would've been fine regardless of who was there, but she loves to throw parties and I feel like she thinks this was all failure when it was completely out of her control.
I love my mom for doing this for me and it sucks it didn't go as planned, but I would never want her to feel this way about a baby shower. I feel so bad. I feel the same way I did when all of DH's friends canceled on his 30th birthday and wish there was some way to make her feel better about it.
However, Mother Nature is a jerk. We weren't supposed to get snow until after 4pm yesterday and instead 7 inches of snow fell in Philadelphia, along with a sheet of ice starting at noon - and my shower was supposed to start at 1pm. When I arrived to the restaurant, my mom and I were the only people there. Out of 25 RSVPs, only 6 people showed up (and DH and my brother came).
She put in so much hard work. She hand made all the favors (mason jars with blue candy), made a banner with my bump pictures, she got this huge beautiful cake, and organized two games (a baby word scramble and a match the candy to the PR/BR-related terms, ex. "epidural" = LifeSavers). She worked on all this for weeks and I know spent a lot of money.
She said it doesn't matter and she was more worried about me, but I know this crushed her. I kept telling her how beautiful everything looked and how much I appreciated everything and that our LO was lucky to have her. I would've been fine regardless of who was there, but she loves to throw parties and I feel like she thinks this was all failure when it was completely out of her control.
I love my mom for doing this for me and it sucks it didn't go as planned, but I would never want her to feel this way about a baby shower. I feel so bad. I feel the same way I did when all of DH's friends canceled on his 30th birthday and wish there was some way to make her feel better about it.
Re: I feel so bad for my mom... (Long)
Ugh, I'm sorry for your mom though. I love to plan a party and it is really disappointing when you put in so much effort and attention to detail and it goes that way. I'm sure she still enjoyed sharing it with those that were there!
At that I lost it, told her how beautiful it was, and sobbed.
She then gave me a clothing box with a card in it. It was a receipt from eBay saying she had spent $130 to purchase my favorite childhood book, "Scarlett Monster Lives Here," which is no longer in print, to read to LO. Again, tears.
It was beautiful and I was so touched. I just want her to be happy. We could've spent the day just me and her and I would've loved it.
The Rowdy Roberts
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She actually called the restaurant and they refunded her for 16 people. I feel relieved. I'm currently going through the baby clothes we received this time around right now.
My mom also made 3 HUGE diaper cakes out of size 1 and 2 swaddlers.
My nesting instinct needs to re-kick in so I start organizing and making room for baby's stuff. Lol.