Baby Shower

by Princess Daisy Boo 6 Replies latest social family

  • Princess Daisy Boo
    Princess Daisy Boo

    So, this week I was invited to a baby shower being held for my very oldest friend - she and I were toddlers in the same cong, went to the same school, did talks together and aux. pioneered together... After I left school and subsequently the borg, her and I kind of lost touch (although I did go to her wedding (at age 18???) ) and we have chatted on and off over the years, and seen each other once or twice since then (she came to see my kids when they were born). Fortunatly I already have commitments for the date that the party is being held, so I am releived to have an excuse for not attending, but I am also really really sad that I did not actually want to attend, mostly because I just can't deal with being in a room full of JW's and feeling their dissapproval and listening to them trying to encourage me back etc. She is not my best friend, but she is certainly the first and longest!

    Geez, I don't know if what I am saying makes sense, but I just needed to get this off my chest!

  • KW13
    KW13

    I didnt know you could get Baby Showers...i suppose its a good idea though, stops them getting burned

    NO in all seriousness, your right. Nothing worse than going along to celebrate a new life coming and join in the excitement and then being preached too, you wouldnt get away from it and likely at some point or other, your leaving the org would cause some awkwardness.

    Maybe send a present or somethin?

  • changeling
    changeling

    I don't blame you.

    Just send a gift.

    changeling

  • unique1
    unique1

    I know exactly how you feel as I have been in the same situation with my best friend. I havent' been allowed to see her kids for over a year now. How I miss them and her. Just send a gift and hold up a toast to your longest friend tonight in the hopes she will one day see the light.

  • AudeSapere
    AudeSapere

    Take her to lunch or maybe offer to paint her toenails before she has the baby.

    Something fun and girlish for just the two of you?

    Or bring by a gift with apologies that you already had plans for the day.

    my $.02

    -Aude.

  • exwitless
    exwitless

    This brings up a huge pet peeve of mine. I hate being invited to baby showers for people I barely know, haven't seen in years, or who couldn't give a rat's a$$ if I fell off the face of the earth. To them, I'm a convenient person gift-buyer to invite. The more people gifts, the better. A couple of years ago, I kept getting invited to wedding showers and baby showers of LDB's nephew's wives/fiances whom I had never even met and wouldn't know them if they walked into the room and fell on top of me! Ugh! I refuse to go to showers for anyone I don't know very well (or at all).

    Princess, I'm not saying this is the case with you. But don't feel obligated to go (i.e. 'present a gift') if you don't really want to be there.

  • ninja
    ninja

    I have heard of it raining frogs and fish......but I thought that the climate change had went mad and it was raining babies.....phew!!!!!

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