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On a happier note
I'M PLANNING A BAYBEH SHEUR!
It's a surprise shower, because for some reason I have to make every party I throw into a surprise, no joke. It's going to be small, and the baby is already here, but I still want it to be awesome.
I have never thrown a shower before, so please to be giving your expert advice on how to throw an awesome, not lame shower?
Also, I am hosting, and created a private event on FB, but the new mom's sister did the inviting, since I don't know most of her other close friends. So one rsvp'd today on the event wall and said "Jordan and I will be there!"
I assumed Jordan was her kid, but it turns out it's her husband. Is that weird?
ANYWAY, give me your expert advice on what to feed them and how to entertain them, and how to not flip out about having strangers in my home because that rarely happens and what if they don't like my cat because I am not putting her in the bedroom to cry pathetically all day she has been through enough with this water situation dammit.
Re: On a happier note
I read this whole thing and thought, (a) I didn't know you were pregnant; and (b) why would you be throwing yourself a surprise shower.
I'm dumb.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Quit stating the obvious and tell me something I DON'T know. GOD!
(Seriously though, I was really banking on you to save me with some good ideas.)
Step 1: Ask yourself "What would velociraptors eat?" Then make items that resemble them. Such as finger sandwiches that look like actual fingers.
Step 2: Ask yourself "What would velociraptors play?" I'm guessing it always involves teams and subterfuge. You might want to stop it short of actually dismembering each other.
Step 3: Cake.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
1. Booze. Lots of it. maybe with a cutesy cocktail umbrella as a nod to the "shower"
that's all i got. I wish I had me some booze.
Quiche, salad, fruit, fancy bread and mimosas.
For games dress Paige up in all the presents and practice diapering her.
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You are a genius. Would it be rude to haor out my cat when there is a new baby in the room? I think it should learn to share attention anyway, right?
Cali, I'm ruling out raptor games since I know that as soon as I give an inch, the next thing I know everyone's favorite raptor game "Get the baby then eat it" will commence. And the new baby is the only baby who will be there, so if it gets eaten the whole purpose of my party is destroyed.
I'm no Vicki, but I may be able to whip up some dismembered limb cookies.
Why on earth would you make your own cookies when you have Vicki to make them for you? That'd be as silly as making your own oven mitt.
Since you're vetoing the raptor theme, I think you need to just adapt the Golden Girls bachelorette to fit a baby shower theme instead. Or Family Feud!
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"Get the baby then eat it" is not just for raptors, you know.
Booze is a must. For me, the key to a good shower is the timing of gift opening. If there are a lot of people, the opening part can take 7 hours, and the only people who care about the presents that they did not bring are the guest of honor and the person who got stuck writing down who bought what.
At our wedding shower, there was an assembly line. Someone opened the card before we got the gift, and another person handed us the gift. We opened, lifted it up, 3 seconds of gushing, thanked the giver, passed it on to a third person (wrapping paper and trash is already collected by the card opener) and move on to the next gift.
All gifts were opened inside of 45 minutes, and we were all free to mingle.
Also, keep games to a minimum. Just stick with the classics like 'what kind of melted candy bar is in the diaper looking like poop' and, of course, 'chimney master popcorn master.'
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I would love some Vicki cookies. But of course I didn't even start thinking about details until today and the shower is on Saturday. So getting an order in and getting it across the border and to my snowy doorstep 3 days from now is an unlikely feat.
Combined raptor/Golden girls theme? I have so many funny ideas, but I'm annoyed because I don't know the people who are coming and with my luck they will be humorless, and all of my attempts at funny will go over like a turd in a pool, and then I will feel stupid and want to leave. But I won't be able to, because it's at my house. So you see my dilemma here.
I do know that the new mom is a giant goof like me, so maybe I should just go for it, and as long as she likes it, I'll be happy.
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Good advice on the gift stuff, Groomz. I'm hoping that won't be a huge problem, because it's going to be a small shower, like, 10 people probably.
I'm throwing it because the couple had kind of a shower already in their old town, but it was just through her work and they gave her some cash. They just moved back to the city the week before the baby was born. So I decided she needed a proper shower. It's not going to be a 50 person extravaganza, so I think I'm safe from the 3 hour gift opening business.