Blissful Baby Shower

Well, the guests have gone home, the dishes are washed, and now it’s all about the blissy memories.

Today, we had a baby shower for our daughter.

Oh wow the preparations!

We were turbo charged!

My husband was outside,

busting his chops,

getting the yard tidied,

while one of his visiting

sisters helped with the mowing.

His other sister was vacuuming

and cleaning sinks etc, (bless them both!)

while Darlin’ Daughter-in-law

was baking her world famous

lemon merangue pies.

The house was looking pretty bad,

because I have been quite sick for a couple of weeks, so things had seriously slipped…. so we were all racing around, getting  things organized and cleaned (entertaining is HARD WORK!!!!)  And, whew, now it’s looking very nice indeed!

I decided that I wanted to make little presies for the guests,

so I made little dolly bee pins for everyone….

using acorn caps from the Garry oaks in Sisters yard (thanks, Sisters!).

And then, I had to make flowers to put them on,

and I was so immersed in doing that ,

that I forgot to actually gather ~real~flower

to go into the

darlin’ duckie vase.

Oh well!

I wanted to

create a way

for the baby

to have a memento

of this special event,

so I got out a little

notebook and colored pens.

(That’s my daughter’s

handprint from when she

was 5… I cut it out of wood.)

We are not into doing ‘games’ and stuff, just into eating fabulous food, enjoying lovely company and basking in the warmth of family and friends. It was just perfect.

I asked all the guests to draw around their hand, and to write a message of welcome to the baby.

Well… what a treasure!

Reading the messages, and seeing the outlines of the hands of all these loving friends and family is so moving!

Sob, sniff!  (Sentimental? Who, me?)

I’ll make a nice cover for the book, and will print out the few photos that I actually remembered to take, and include them in the book.

And, hopefully, it will become a treasure that this dear child will cherish, knowing that s/he was loved and welcomed.

Some day, knowing that  people made promises, commitments  and wishes of love and welcome to and for him or her, will help to set this child’s feet upon a path of knowing that life is meant to be lived with love, and feelings of gratitude and blessing.

And seeing all the hands of the family and friends who are giving welcome to this child, will give him or her a sense of the community that  says: You are precious to us, little one…. we wish you a life of joy!

Every child deserves such a welcome….. it would make the world a better place…..