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BallSox
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Little Man (4 years old---holy cow)
He's the single greatest thing I've done in my life and reminds me daily of how fun (and funny) life can be. He's turned out pretty swell for having such a heartless and evil mother.
Shower, Sprinkle---now "drip"??!?
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Come on now, NYT, a 40 person catered party is not modest nor low-key
"Melissa Gerstein, 40, a mother of three living on the Upper West Side and a founder of the Moms, a multimedia company focused on child-raising, said that despite hinting to friends and family that she would be up for a shower when she was pregnant with her second child, a party never came to fruition.
?I was disappointed,? she said. ?I think every birth should be
celebrated. You wouldn?t give your first child a bar or bat mitzvah and
not your second or third, so why is a shower any different??"
Because a religious rite of passage is TOTES the same as an event focused on giving presents.
Little Man (4 years old---holy cow)He's the single greatest thing I've done in my life and reminds me daily of how fun (and funny) life can be. He's turned out pretty swell for having such a heartless and evil mother.
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Re: Shower, Sprinkle---now "drip"??!?
This was another favorite part:
"Some sprinkles, however, are more lavish than the average shower. Amee Bhatia, 35, a physical therapist living in Millstone Township, N.J., with a 20-month-old daughter, had a sprinkle in November to welcome her second child, who is due in January. Ms. Bhatia described her first shower as a grand affair of more than 100 people that culminated with her cutting a three-tiered crystal-encrusted cake. The second had half the number of guests, invited by Evite rather than a printed card, and a one-layer cake. "
1) 2u2 and hitting friends and family up for more loot
2) MORE THAN 100-effin-people and a three tiered crystal-encrusted cake? Well, damn, a party with *just* 50 people, evites-invitations and a one layer cake---she was really slummin' it. I bet she registered at Walmart too.
He's the single greatest thing I've done in my life and reminds me daily of how fun (and funny) life can be. He's turned out pretty swell for having such a heartless and evil mother.
"You wouldn?t give your first child a bar or bat mitzvah and not your second or third, so why is a shower any different??"
Here's why. Because a shower isn't a celebration of the baby's birth -- it helps a woman becoming a mother by helping her with some essentials and celebrates that rite of passage. I suspect that when showers first became popular, mothers received gender neutral clothing and essentials like diapers that they would use for all subsequent children. I don't know, the entitlement is strong with that one. How greedy.
Married Bio * BFP Charts
Wow. Just wow.
Why do people feel the need to celebrate their continued ability to procreate? We get it, you can make babIES, not just the first one. Woohoo - but I'm not gonna throw you a party, literally OR figuratively.
OMG give me a motherfcking break.
?The first one was 120 people, the second was half that number, and this one was 40 girls,? she said. Although it was a tea at the elite Willard hotel in Washington, the event was completed in two hours compared with more than four hours for the first two, and cupcakes and mini-desserts replaced an extravagant sheet cake with intricate hand decorations of baby bottles and strollers.
4 hours, really?? i'd kill myself.
No but in this case it bought a lot of Klass
damn makes me feel all self conscious about my 20 person(co-ed) shower at a friend's house with cupcakes....