Let's talk baby showers.
I'm 2.5 weeks from the end of my 2nd trimester and so far, pretty much no one has offered to throw me a baby shower yet. My stepmother offered to throw one when she comes to Chicago in June, but she lives in Seattle and she's only coming out for about a week for the baby's birth. She's also in poor health. I appreciate her offer and would love to have her throw one, but I'm not excited about having a stream of people in my home when I'm a few days postpartum, and I'd be stuck doing most of the work anyways (at a very inopportune time) since she isn't local and is in bad health. I also don't want a bunch of people clamoring to see the baby when she's just a few days old.
I have no local family members or in-laws. None, whatsoever. My closest relative is a male cousin in Danville, and we aren't emotionally close.
I have plenty of female friends, but so far no one has stepped up. The woman at my church who threw my son's baby shower 7 years ago is in her 60s now and maybe not enthusiastic about doing it again.
So my thoughts are, I'm just going to throw this thing myself. I've made a list of 45 local women I could invite, and 1/3rd - 2/3rds of them would probably actually show up. Plus I bought a beautiful new 5-bedroom house last year and never had an open house, so it could be a belated housewarming as well.
I would ask one of my friends to run the RSVP list (and it's possible that when I mention my dilemma to her, she'll step up and just offer to throw the shower herself). But I figure if it's her name on the RSVP for the invitations, no one is really going to know that I was tacky and threw my own shower.
My husband and I make enough money to be comfortable, we aren't hurting for gifts or anything. We could buy every last thing on my registry tomorrow if we wanted to. I'm just craving the company and the event itself.
Thoughts? Yes? No?