Two years ago I moved to Alabama from Massachusetts to finish school. It was not in my plan to fall in love, get married, and stay this far from my family. But I did fall in love and now were getting married and expecting our first child in January and now I am in Alabama forever. (which is NOT a bad thing)
The thing is I am a huge family person. I am torn up about not being able to go home for the shower that they want to throw me! So my question is does anyone have advice on how to go about celebrating this exciting time in my life with MY family? Atleast making the seperation easier during the next 5 months?
TIA!
Re: family is spread out ..what to do!?
well i would go home for thanksgiving or christmas but i cannot travel after the 17th of november. I am also finishing my last semester of school (student teaching). It is in the plan to go back home in march/april with the baby, but i am having a hard time with being pregnant without the support of my family.
My sister met and married an Australian man and has lived in Aus for the last 6 years. My Mom threw her a shower for her first child, it ran just like a regular shower, all of our family came to my parents house and my sister was on the Web Cam for the whole thing. My family loves any reason to celebrate. Our youngest cousin had the honor of opening the baby gifts, I think she was about 6 at the time. My parents packed everything up and took it with them when they went to be with her after the birth. It worked out really well and no one thought it was gift-grabby.
After her son was born she started a monthly email to all of our family and her friends. It included what Ryan had done that month, any special outings and a few pictures. My Mom made a scrapbook of the emails and it is super cute. We have family all over the US and her husband has family all over Aus so it was a great way for everyone to keep up with what Ryan was doing.
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TTC Baby Rob #1 05/07, BFP 06/07, EDD 02/22/08, Baby Jackaroo born via c-section after 22 hours of labor on 02/27/08
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TTC Baby Rob #2 06/11 BFP 11/06/11 EDD 07/16/12 Natural M/C 11/25/11 @ 6w3d
Baby Rob #2 (Sloane), in our hearts always.
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Here comes Baby Rob #3
BFP on Cycle 17 09/27/12. EDD 06/04/12! Please Stick Baby! A/S 01/22/13 Baby looking great. Officially TEAM BLUE! Jack is getting a Baby Brother! RCS scheduled for 05/29/13. William Daryll born at 9:59am on 05/29/13. Left ovary and tube removed due to peach sized tumor found during RCS. Pathology came back benign!