Nobody ever told me that the baby shower would be one of the most overwhelming parts of pregnancy... now I really wish somebody had warned me! I had three different people trying to plan a shower for me, & not only would I not have enough friends to attend one, let alone three, but yesterday I finally put my foot down & decided on one shower so that my friends could attend & feel comfortable, but I would be doing something to celebrate with my family another time to avoid any awkward or uneccessary confrontation.
This morning, Shaun's Mum called him & asked him for a list of my friends so she could start planning a baby shower for me. ARGHHHH!!! I am BEYOND overwhelmed at this point. I don't really have too many friends for one, & two; I'm not sure how to pull of two separate baby showers. I didn't even want one! So now I am in a VERY awkward position because not only do I have to figure out whether I should cancel the other one altogether but I have to somehow come up with a guest list of all my friends! This is too much. I don't even know who half my friends are these days...
I wish that I didn't have to have a baby shower. I know his Mum is trying to be sweet & supportive & helpful, but I feel really torn between a lot of people right now & it's too much stress to try & please everyone but I get too overwhelmed when I try to do what will make me happy. I just don't know what to do... I guess I will just give her a list of most of my friends & then a few others can just have a Starbucks date with me so everybody is satisfied. Even then, I still feel a little guilty...
My ideal baby shower would just be a bunch of close friends getting together & bullshitting over coffee. Doesn't that sound more enjoyable than an awkward get together at a family member's house that my friends don't know & everybody feeling like they can't be themselves because they don't know how everyone else will react to it. Bleughhh... I HATE baby showers.
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