The Shower of the Century

      After years – and I mean years – of our family cooking along quietly, we are now on a roller coaster of events, one seemingly right after another.
For the past five or six years, we had no births, and thankfully, no deaths; whoever was dating someone held the course (okay, we did have one really great wedding); and everyone stayed put, with no major moves. 

          Now we’re dashing to weddings, wrapping shower gifts (wait – is this baby or bridal?), congratulating the newly engaged, and trying to figure out what to wear to a Bar Mitzvah. It’s a world gone mad.

          This past weekend was the shower for our niece and nephew, who are expecting their first. Saturday morning, when I wrestled the changing table, pad for the changing table, and covers for the pad for the changing table into my car, I had no idea that soon I would be entering a New Dimension . . . .the Dimension of:

Pinterest!

          What is the most remarkable is that everything you see was put together by the new mom’s mother and family – cupcakes, Oreo pops, decorations. 

    These are people who seriously know how to stage an event. 

          In my family we’d probably pull up a few chairs, open some presents, and if we got really crazy, make a hat out of the ribbons.

        

   Oh, and did I mention that we had filet mignon, cooked to order?

          I hope she’s planning on a large family.