Chapter 1:
Wow, do I feel old! This week I am concentrating my efforts of creating and catering the perfect baby shower for our daughter.
My original thoughts were: I was in catering for 15 years and I’ve planned events for 25,000 people – what could be the harm in catering a small event.
Enter into t
he picture, Daughter number 2 with raging hormones and a family that requires careful handling and I now believe that I should never have given up wine for lent!
Thankfully I am not into self torture so I have decided to call in a few favors and am now outsourcing specific parts of the shower to people I trust and who know how particular I can be about the events / entertaining.
My friend Deb is making the centerpieces; since it’s at a Vineyard (thankfully this event takes place after Easter) we are going with a cottage baby theme and using all types o
f baby boxes, canning jars, etc that we will fill with baby items and fresh country flowers.
I am not sure if you call this crazy or courageous but I am bringing in my mother from Ohio to help me with the catering. She is a catering queen who makes the best food yet at times my sister and I t
hink we should provide her with a Margareta IV.
I have sent the invitations, made all the lists, bought the items for the games, wrote the menu, ordered the cake and now await responses to see how many woman are going to attend and eventually have to do the “Waddle Relay.”
Feeling my age comes from the latest technology that the babies have these days. The bassinet our daughter has requested is from the Zen Collection from Fisher Price. This thing makes sounds, rocks the baby, has a canopy and is portable. WOW what a difference 26 years makes!
Well enough baby talk for now…
Next week in Chapter Two we’ll talk cakes, crazy relatives, less than polite coworkers and an attempt to ban alcohol.
Wow, do I feel old! This week I am concentrating my efforts of creating and catering the perfect baby shower for our daughter.
My original thoughts were: I was in catering for 15 years and I’ve planned events for 25,000 people – what could be the harm in catering a small event.
Enter into t
he picture, Daughter number 2 with raging hormones and a family that requires careful handling and I now believe that I should never have given up wine for lent!Thankfully I am not into self torture so I have decided to call in a few favors and am now outsourcing specific parts of the shower to people I trust and who know how particular I can be about the events / entertaining.
My friend Deb is making the centerpieces; since it’s at a Vineyard (thankfully this event takes place after Easter) we are going with a cottage baby theme and using all types o
f baby boxes, canning jars, etc that we will fill with baby items and fresh country flowers.I am not sure if you call this crazy or courageous but I am bringing in my mother from Ohio to help me with the catering. She is a catering queen who makes the best food yet at times my sister and I t
hink we should provide her with a Margareta IV.I have sent the invitations, made all the lists, bought the items for the games, wrote the menu, ordered the cake and now await responses to see how many woman are going to attend and eventually have to do the “Waddle Relay.”
Feeling my age comes from the latest technology that the babies have these days. The bassinet our daughter has requested is from the Zen Collection from Fisher Price. This thing makes sounds, rocks the baby, has a canopy and is portable. WOW what a difference 26 years makes!
Well enough baby talk for now…
Next week in Chapter Two we’ll talk cakes, crazy relatives, less than polite coworkers and an attempt to ban alcohol.
What fun !? for you Brenda. I love the theme idea for a shower – we don’t do that much here but will for my niece now that you’ve planted the seed. Having a grandchild is the most amazing thing in the world. I was invited to the hospital by my daughter when my granddaughter was born and got to help clean her up when she was 8 minutes old (you have to know my daughter to understand the ‘invite’ thing)! And hold her and cry with my daughter right after that. I can recall more details from that experience than I can from my own children’s birth.
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