Stephanie- i understand how you feel about your shower. try not to get too worked up but to add a few games to be safe and some food might make you feel a little better. i cant believe she waited 2 days before the party to tell you she's on a budget and cant go all out. i definitely think she should have told you so others can help this is special for you more than she may think. I guess people forget what you went thru to have a baby and it means the world to you. not everyone can afford or try to have another pregnancy so yes i'd treat it as it were your one and only shower. im sorry to hear that now you have to put work into your own party and your pregnant. parties are stressful to get ready in a time limit and to top it off last minute.
I just had a discussion with my sister. my cousin is pregnant and due in oct. on 2nd baby and my sister is pregnant due in dec. on her 3rd baby. so i told my sister a month ago i'll probably have my shower in nov. becausei dont want to in dec because of xmas and jan. is too last minute because we havent bought anything and are waiting on the shower to see what we get so theres no doubles. so a long story short. my sister called me up saying she's planning on doing her shower in nov. too i told her well i dont know yet the date im doing mine so she kinds got mad and said well i just wont have one. i told her do what she wants. then she came over a few days ago and mentioned it again. i told her do hers in oct she says my cousin i thinking of doing hers in oct.i dunno what to tell her cuz im not changing my mind. its just funny beacuse no one mentioned a shower until i said i was having one. this is our first baby. my cousin and sister already had one so now its my turn. im not backing off of my date. my sister didnt have one for her 2nd one but now she wants one for her 3rd. i dunno. i think she's just being weird about it now. she told me she bought everything so she's just going to do a little one to get everyone together. im thinking she wants some attention too so thats what its more about. so yesterday she calls me and asks if we can do ours together i said no cuz this is our first child she had one already. if this were our 2nd or something no biggie but this is my 1st baby and probably only who knows. remind you all no one in my family or my husbands know we had problems on our own and went thru ivf. so they dont know how much more special this is for us. did you all tell your family? do you think im wrong about not changing my date and having my shower on my own? I talked to my mom about it and she agreed. they had one already. i didnt plan on getting pregnant at the same time as two others in my family we're all two months apart from eachother. i just dont want to hurt their feelings but i think she should know i wouldnt want to share my special day.
thanks for listening to me vent
have anice weekend ladies
All in all it was a good party because of the people I was surrounded by. Though I did want to choke a few guys for not watching their kids! One soldier came (wife was working) with his kids. He had a 6 year old watching a 2 year old. He wasn't and she was all over the place. I finally lost my cool when she started to try and destroy one of the baby swings. She was trying to rip the skirt off it, ripping and pulling at the mobile like she was really trying to pull it off. Then when I go over there to fix it, I see a garden piece in the swing. She went and put one of my garden decorations in there. I am not a neat freak (though I get told I have OCD all the time by friends) but putting something that was laying in dirt and crawling with bugs somewhere where my baby is going to be... yeah I went out to tell him to watch his kid. It was the last straw. Though as soon as I did we was just driving away. Guess he saw me coming? LOL One of the other guys (same one I complained about before that gives his 20 month old beer) wasn't watching his either. Kept trying to throw him in the house while the games were going on. Also found out from the guys that he was letting him run out in the road, the kid lost his close at some point too as well as a bag of a guest's dart tips. Then the kid comes in and rams a chair into my 52 inch tv 3 times! Oh joy joy. It was kind of funny though... one of my guests looked at the mother of the demon child and said, "My son is a perfect ANGEL compared to yours." Yes, she emphasized the word angel. lol Gosh... I am rambling again aren't I?? I have a bad habit of that. I really wish I could have spent the day in all of your ladies company as well! 
, a few hiccups were to be expected, but ugh for men who thought they were dropping their littles ones at a day care service - umm yeah, a guy who's too busy drinking beer to notice his kid is trying to destroy your big screen? I'd say that qualifies as a demon child! Sorry your decorations werent hung up before guests arrived, but it sounds like your friends understood. Yippeee for loads of diapers and your stroller though! Update your registry when you get a chance so I can join in on your shower party please.I'm not having one so I'll just live vicariously though your showers - hee hee. And today is the 2nd, so I am patiently waiting to hear that your dad's wife ordered your furniture 
Thank goodness for removable, washable swing seats though. We put our swing together yesterday and as sweet as it is, boy the music is crappy! Chris's first reaction was to go and download lullabies for the ipod to bose route. Good thing he thought of that, since my first idea was to go buy more toys with better music! haha. Yeah, Savannah is definitely kicking less often lately, but when she does its so much harder I notice. they feel like she's trying to get my attention or something - it works too! - xoxo
