Dear Sister So-n-So,
I'm so sorry I had to miss the baby shower thrown by the ward for the triplets you're about to deliver. I know the invitation/sign-up they passed around Relief Society on Sunday suggested that you were in need of diapers, binkies, wipes and... well, everything. The thing is - I wasn't sure exactly what to get you, since you already seem to have an endless supply of baby supplies and boy clothes - what with the 4 boys under the age of 7 you already have. I thought about buying a big pack of diapers, but then I remembered that you like the old-school cloth kind, and wasn't sure where to go to buy them. Besides which, I had something come up (can we all say "SATC came out this weekend"?), so I was otherwise occupied for the afternoon. My apologies and deepest regrets that I couldn't be there for you and yours. Keep me on your mailing list, though. Hopefully I'll be able to make it next time.
Sincerely, Laurie
9 comments:
Don't you love it when they invite the entire ward to those functions?! Good for you for not going! I have started refusing to go to baby showers for people I don't even know.
Great topic! Wherever did you get the idea for that post?!?!
I love you, y'know!
Lindz (do you love how I'm now shortening your name like we're long lost high school buddies, when we're actually....people who've never once set eyes on each other outside of this virtual life we call blogging?) - no freakin kidding. What is up with the MASS SOCIAL EVENT showers being thrown for women who already have multitudes of children (esp when said existing children are of the same gender of the one(s) they are about to birth)? Weird-O's. They can buy their own diapers, et al, thankyouverymuch.
I'm such a jerk.
And Jen - Thanks. And I hope y'know I love you back. So much so that I would have gone to a shower for your 3rd boy. I wouldn't have planned it, and/or bought any of the food, but I'd have come. And then afterwards we could have left someone else to clean up the mess and gone shopping. Or to the movie I'm falling off the wagon for. :)That would have been a GREAT day!
Hmmm...and here I was thinking that if I ever get pregnant again I should have an FFA/Feed babyshower for myself so people I don't even know can send me extravagent gifts. Thanks for blowing that to you-know-where. (And I think you do!) ;)
Thank you for pointing out the "pity-me-because-I-got-pregnant-AGAIN" parties! I think the people who bother me the most are the ones who EXPECT a shower for their 10th child and then get upset because no one threw them one. At least I had a 7 year gap between my kids and really did NEED a baby shower.
Good letter, made me think!
Laurie--I love that you called me Lindz!! We really are friends now! And if Peggy does get pregnant we should have a Feed/FFA shower for her...I bet she would get some interesting presents!
And don't forget the people who have 3 teenagers and expect to have meals brought in for 3 weeks after the latest birth. Good grief, is everyone else in the family disabled?!
Oh man, I have to agree. Yet another Mormon social faux pas. Why in the world would I want to go sit through the agony I call a baby shower and give a gift to someone I hardly know?
When my sister was having her second daughter, she was so embarrassed that a friend of hers insisted on giving her a baby shower. Luckily, the friend wasn't in her ward, so my sister didn't give her a list of very many friends/acquaintances/RS sisters/complete strangers to invite. Even though the Shower Giver probably thought my sister didn't have any friends, I was so proud of her. Of course, she made me go, so I still had to sit around for an hour with a string of safety pins on my shirt while I "tried" not to say the word "baby." She still owes me for that one.
You are HILARIOUS! I loved it!
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