When it's MY turn.....

I better have people coming out of the wood works when it is my turn to have a baby shower. I want a freakin' parade for crying out loud!!! I've been giving this much thought lately, can you tell? This weekend I have two baby showers in the course of 24 hours, one of which I am co-hosting. Both recipients are getting a beautiful hand-made hooded towel, by me of course!

The first shower is for SIL's sister, but her & I are so close that I consider her one of my real sisters. I made her a hooded towel, diaper cake, knitted a couple of hats and bought her some baby clothes, toys & a blanket. The second shower is for one of hubs' cousin's girlfriend, whom I've never even met. Right away, she's lucky that she's getting the towel{don't always give them as gifts}, but then my SIL that I'm co-hosting with asks if I'll make & bring these adorable lil' feet cookies that I made for her shower. They are a plain sugar cookie, that I cut out into a lil' baby foot shape and icing with either pink/blue colored icing. This is a big task and something I usually reserve only for sisters/close friends, but SIL has asked that I please make them, so what am I to do, but make them. Actually, it's what I am supposed to be doing right now, but I'm waiting for the dough to get to room temp so I can roll it out easier. ;)

It seems as though I am doing a load of work for these showers and others that I've done or helped out with in the past. Just makes me want to call every single one of them when it's my turn and say, "you know I put me aside and came to your shower after my failed IVF." And, "yours happened on the same day that I had a false positive." "I co-hosted your shower and cried all the way home." "I shopped for your gift and pretended I was shopping for my own." etc, etc, etc....I could go on all day & night with the many showers I've attended over the eight years, but you ladies get it. You also know that I will never utter these words aloud either. Never call up so and so and say, "I came to 4 of your 5 showers{only because you already had a baby by the time I met you}, so even though we haven't been as close as we once were, I expect you to be there for me with ginormous bells on & plenty of gifts in tow."

Several people have asked if it's hard for me making hooded towels as gifts and yes, sometimes I wish I was making them for my own bundles of joy, but really what I feel while making them is that it's not about me. Just like in twenty-seven dresses, when she's asked "What about her?" and she says, "It's not about her, it's their day. And, when it is her turn, she knows, they will all be there for her." .......Well, I hope they are all there for me too!




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