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Give me advice about a shower for SIL

jknigh8jknigh8 member
in Babies: 9 - 12 Months
My SIL is expecting in July, and I am hosting her shower in May and sending out the invites in a couple weeks. I want to do something really special for her. Did any of you have anything really special at your own shower that I might be able to do? Mine was pretty typical.
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Re: Give me advice about a shower for SIL

  • write2nicolewrite2nicole member

    Lurking tonight.

    At my baby shower, we did scrapbook pages. That is, every guest did a scrapbook page for me. I thought it was really nice. I love scrapbooking, and it was nice to have those close to me put together a page for me. Plus, it makes it easier to scrapbook when you have a tiny baby. (Not that I've put photos on them yet...)

    At my wedding shower, they handed out note cards and asked everyone to give me advice or thoughts for a certain occasion (i.e., first fight, first child, first Christmas, etc.). They wrote the occasion on the envelope and sealed it for me to open at that time.

    You could probably do that with baby-occasions, like "sleep deprived and can't take it anymore," "first day home from the hospital," "first date night," "first birthday," "first time LO sleeps through the night," "going back to work," etc. One thing I would do differently with this one is have the host actually come up with several, write them on the envelopes, and let each guest choose one. I had a few that were for the same "event," and I could also tell there were a couple people who had writer's block just thinking of an event.

    We also had a game where everyone guessed whether I'd want LO to have mine vs. H's features (hair, eyes, teeth, intelligence, sense of humor, etc.). I thought that was neat, because I liked wondering what LO would be like. Of course, DH is upset to this day that I picked myself for intelligence.

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  • konaboomomkonaboomom
    This might sound really cheesy, but a friend told me about this at a shower she went to. You have bowl full of pretty stones at the door when they walk in. Each person grabs the stone and says a happy "prayer" for the parents to be and then puts it in a vase (they don't necessarily have to say it out loud). The parents to be keep the vase full of stones and when they look at it, they can think of all the people who support them in their journey into birth and parenthood.
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