TOTALLY GEEKED!

I bought a beautiful bassinet for a friend and never ended up giving it to her. I gave her something else instead. I still have it sitting in my garage. When my friend gets closer along I am going to drag it out so I have something for the baby to sleep in when I babysit.

It's a gorgeous bassinet. I look forward to using it for the new baby!

lilyofcourse wrote:

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Our family has a cradle that has been used for generations. Passed down to the first woman in the family. My mawmaw used it. Mom used it and I used it. The baby can only be in it until it starts moving around, turning over.

Someday C will use it someday.

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I never had a cradle.

Conor was so big, he wouldn't have fit in one. And if, he did...by the second or third week, he would have flipped it over!

Nope. No cradle here.

Heck, he could stick out his arm, and stop a wind up swing, at 3 months old. 

The babies don't sleep in it long. It gave me about a month's use each time. I Think it is more tradition than anything.

Mawmaw has a high chair that all her kids, grandkids and great grand kids have used too. It has stayed at her house though. It will come to our house some day.

That thing is solid as a rock.

Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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lilyofcourse wrote:

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Our family has a cradle that has been used for generations. Passed down to the first woman in the family. My mawmaw used it. Mom used it and I used it. The baby can only be in it until it starts moving around, turning over.

Someday C will use it someday.

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I never had a cradle.

Conor was so big, he wouldn't have fit in one. And if, he did...by the second or third week, he would have flipped it over!

Nope. No cradle here.

Heck, he could stick out his arm, and stop a wind up swing, at 3 months old. 

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 Same with us. DD could pick her head up and turn it towards you while we were still in the hospital. The nurses used to come in on their shift change to watch her do it. They all said she would be an athlete - they were right. She would have flipped a cradle on day two! Lol

My mom loaned me a cradle with my DD but she was really sick when she was born and lost weight the first six months. She wasn't active either. So I was able to use it for a good long time.

I'm going to throw myself a shower! Think I will call it a gully washer. NO! Wait! A TSUNAMI! Cause I want it all! Everything! The reason is because I want to.

And you all are going to pay for everything and I am going to tell you each exactly what I want. Maybe even just order it for you and send you the bill!

And food! I want specific foods! I might share.

And if you want a thank you card you will have to send yourself one. I will be too busy messing with all my new stuff. You know, getting it ready to take back so I can just have the money. 

Honey will be 10 years old on April 19th.  You're all invited to her shower.  We're registered at PetSmart.

Southern_Belle wrote:

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Honeys_Mom wrote:

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Honey will be 10 years old on April 19th.  You're all invited to her shower.  We're registered at PetSmart.

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 When she gets married you must register as well. 

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If she's not married by 10 (dog years), she's an old maid!

Love you, Honey!!!!

flan 

Hey, aren't you inland?

lilyofcourse wrote:

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Yeah! So! If a little gift grab is a sprinkle, and a regular gift grab is a shower. I want a big gift grab. So a tsunami!

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 Wouldn't that be a downpour?  Or a hurricane?

Z-Dog never got a shower either!

He does get baths regularly, though!

Well I will have been married 25 years this September. I never had a wedding shower. I will be throwing myself one this summer. It's a destination shower - and attendance is mandatory. I am only registered for expensive items, and I will tell each of you what I expect you to bring. Or you could just give me cash. That's fine too. The shower will be held in a very swanky restaurant and you will be presented a bill for your portion of the meal. Save the dates will go out soon, and all of you will get one, although not all of you will ultimately be invited to the shower. If someone doesn't rsvp, I will contact the B list and invite them instead. I won't be writing thank you notes, but I will email you all a thank you. That will have to do. Any duplicate gifts will be handed back to you at the shower and you will be expected to return it and get me the appropriate item - or you could just write me a check for the full price of the item. A few weeks later, I will probably throw myself a reception since my original reception was not to my liking. Gifts will be expected then as well. I will email you all a list of which items are still available for purchase. Then, the following month, I will throw my own anniversary party. It is going to be very very nice and I am going to need each of you to forward me a check for $25 so I can put the deposit down on the hall. We won't be serving any cake, so I will need each of you to bring cake - we will supply the table for you to put it on. Thank you in advance. Oh, and since we will have had 2 events already please just bring gift cards or cash to the anniversary party.




That would be hysterical of almost all of it hadn't happened to me at some point. I didn't DO any of it, but I was the recipient of "invitations" that requested this crap.

Are you sending these invites out by email or text?

Southern_Belle wrote:

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She's gonna tweet it.

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 Can I call her bad names when she does?

I want to tweet bad things though and have her dad come after me.

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Southern_Belle wrote:

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Honeys_Mom wrote:

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Honey will be 10 years old on April 19th.  You're all invited to her shower.  We're registered at PetSmart.

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 When she gets married you must register as well. 

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If she's not married by 10 (dog years), she's an old maid!

Love you, Honey!!!!

flan 

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 Now just wait a minute!  Sonny will be 4 this year and has never had a shower.  Perhaps we can fix Sonny and Honey up?

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 GASP!  A younger man! 

Honeys_Mom wrote:

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I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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flan327 wrote:

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Southern_Belle wrote:

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Honeys_Mom wrote:

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Honey will be 10 years old on April 19th.  You're all invited to her shower.  We're registered at PetSmart.

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 When she gets married you must register as well. 

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If she's not married by 10 (dog years), she's an old maid!

Love you, Honey!!!!

flan 

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 Now just wait a minute!  Sonny will be 4 this year and has never had a shower.  Perhaps we can fix Sonny and Honey up?

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 GASP!  A younger man! 

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 That requires extra special gifts.

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Are you sending these invites out by email or text?

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 I will email, text, tweet and Facebook the invites. I want to be sure you all understand just how crucially important this is. And how classy it is too. 

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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Mellow Momma wrote:

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Well I will have been married 25 years this September. I never had a wedding shower. I will be throwing myself one this summer. It's a destination shower - and attendance is mandatory. I am only registered for expensive items, and I will tell each of you what I expect you to bring. Or you could just give me cash. That's fine too. The shower will be held in a very swanky restaurant and you will be presented a bill for your portion of the meal. Save the dates will go out soon, and all of you will get one, although not all of you will ultimately be invited to the shower. If someone doesn't rsvp, I will contact the B list and invite them instead. I won't be writing thank you notes, but I will email you all a thank you. That will have to do. Any duplicate gifts will be handed back to you at the shower and you will be expected to return it and get me the appropriate item - or you could just write me a check for the full price of the item. A few weeks later, I will probably throw myself a reception since my original reception was not to my liking. Gifts will be expected then as well. I will email you all a list of which items are still available for purchase. Then, the following month, I will throw my own anniversary party. It is going to be very very nice and I am going to need each of you to forward me a check for $25 so I can put the deposit down on the hall. We won't be serving any cake, so I will need each of you to bring cake - we will supply the table for you to put it on. Thank you in advance. Oh, and since we will have had 2 events already please just bring gift cards or cash to the anniversary party.




That would be hysterical of almost all of it hadn't happened to me at some point. I didn't DO any of it, but I was the recipient of "invitations" that requested this crap.

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 Yep I put those invites right up there with people who decided to check out from their responsible job to go help snails live in Africa and post on FB for money to finance the trip and to help pay their student loan off.  Yep, I'll get right on that!

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 DH has had several of his players go on mission trips, or study abroad trips and a few of them have sent out requests for donations. We never give - we couldn't, he has had hundreds of students, we couldnot give to them all. But I think it's tacky to ask everyone you know to fund that kind of thing. If you can't afford it, you shouldnt go!

I've seen many people send out emails saying they want to spend a year here or there doing missionary work. They want people to fund it completely. I always think how I'd love to do that myself, take a year off work and have others pay all my bills and do something like that.

I always thought missionary work meant sacrificing your own comforts, not just living off others.

Mellow Momma wrote:

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Southern_Belle wrote:

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I've seen many people send out emails saying they want to spend a year here or there doing missionary work. They want people to fund it completely. I always think how I'd love to do that myself, take a year off work and have others pay all my bills and do something like that.

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 Yep. Makes no sense to me. Maybe I should send out an email saying I want to take a year off work and spend it going to my daughter's games all over the country. I expect everyone else to replace my salary with donations. 

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 This would actually make an interesting experiment if it weren't so wrong.  Unless one donated the money to charity... naw.

Honeys_Mom wrote:

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Mellow Momma wrote:

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Southern_Belle wrote:

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I've seen many people send out emails saying they want to spend a year here or there doing missionary work. They want people to fund it completely. I always think how I'd love to do that myself, take a year off work and have others pay all my bills and do something like that.

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 Yep. Makes no sense to me. Maybe I should send out an email saying I want to take a year off work and spend it going to my daughter's games all over the country. I expect everyone else to replace my salary with donations. 

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 This would actually make an interesting experiment if it weren't so wrong.  Unless one donated the money to charity... naw.

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 Well, the do have GoFundMe.com for these kinds of things now.