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OOT family
So I am having my shower on Saturday.
My mother is the only family member who will be attending. I live out of town ( 6 hours away). Friends from my hometown are coming but NO family. I am a little upset about it.
Am I being too sensitive?
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Re: OOT family
Where I live... There was enough time to plan and get discounted rooms. I go home for most family functions. I just don't think it's fair. I think they are selfish!
My whole family is in Illinois. I am in MD too. I would not expect any of them to come here for a shower. It would be dissappointing but there are way to many of them...
Is there talk of having a shower at home?
I wouldn't travel 6 hours for a shower.
I'm not saying you're unreasonable to feel disappointed. I just don't think it's completely off that your family aren't travelling.
I agree with pp, focus on your friends who are making the effort and have lots of fun with them.
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old
It's certainly ok to feel the way you are feeling. But like everyone has said, enjoy the people who are coming. Chances are, as much as your family is excited for you and probably wants to be there, having to drive 6 hours and get a hotel room for a baby shower is a lot and maybe they would rather come when LO is born.
Enjoy your shower to the fullest and don't let that get you down!
I would NEVER travel 6 hours for a shower. It's fine to be sad, but it's not fair to be mad at them or to call them selfish. If it was "oh so important" that they come, then your mom could have thrown you a shower where they all live and YOU could have been the one to travel.
Showers are not the "be all end all" of events. Weddings are. The actual birth is. Baptisms are. I'd be MUCH more likely to travel 6 hours to actually meet the BABY, but not to come and watch you open a bunch of gifts. A SHOWER is not all that important - please put it in perspective.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
AMEN.
