Part of the reason that mom, Tiffany and Wendy have been in town this week is because they were throwing a baby shower for Debby tonight. I was asked to make the treats, so I spent the morning making some cream puffs. Then mom, Tiffany, and I went shopping to get some other things that we would need for the shower. We spent a good deal of the day shopping, and when we got back, mom got to work wrapping some things that she picked up for Debby, and Tiffany and Wendy took mom’s car to go over and decorate the clubhouse where we were having the shower. They said that they would come back later to help get the presents and treats over. I got to work and made pudding to put in the cream puffs I made, and then realized that there weren’t very many, so I made a run to go buy some more. I thought about just buying some treats when we were at Costco. I saw them and thought about putting them in the cart and then didn’t. It took too long to go buy some more treats, and then mom called to ask me to pick up something else while I was out, and then Wendy called and asked me to pick up another tablecloth….so by the time I got back to the house, got the girls and the treats loaded into the van, and changed my clothes and we left, we were about an hour late. 🙁 And Wendy and Tiffany had never come back to help take things over. John had been helping Wendy and Tiffany decorate, and he came back to our house to hang out with Kyle and the boys during the shower.
Debby called me just as we drove up, and asked if I was arriving fashionably late because I thought I was the start of the show or something. I told her that we had arrived and she sent someone out to open the door for us. We got the girls inside and I got to work setting out the cream puffs and filling them with the pudding.
Then Wendy came over and asked me if I wanted to come over to the circle and play the games. Then I had a terrifying thought, I asked her if they played any games while they were waiting for us to get there. She said no, they were waiting for us! So all these guests had just been sitting here for the past HOUR doing NOTHING! No treats to eat, no games to play and obviously they weren’t going to open the presents at the beginning. I told Wendy to go play some games, while I got the cream puffs ready. So she went back into the room and got the party started.
Lydia had a great time trying on everyone else’s shoes that had been left by the door:
After all the games had been played we had Debby open her presents, and most of the guests waited just long enough for their present to be opened and then they took off.
Most of the presents on the table, mom brought up with her. Stuff from her, and presents from Patsy and Sandy and such. Towards the end of the evening there was a drawing for a prize. Everyone that had brought diapers got to put a raffle ticket in the box, but considering Wendy and I were the only ones that brought diapers….AND I brought a case of wipes as well, I won the raffle. My prize was one of Jeff’s business cards with a note written on the back for one free appetizer, two free entrees and two free drinks.
After the rest of the party had left and it was just our family left to clean up, mom got out another couple of presents. I guess she had saved these ones because one was for Tiffany and she didn’t feel right giving Tiffany a present at Debby’s shower.
Neither of them knew what they were at first, I think they both thought they were lolly pops, actually they are baby mittens. 😉