registering

[SueC]

I have to admit, that for my first baby, my sisters co-hosted a baby shower with one of my friends. I know it was a faux paus but none of my good friends had kids yet and it didn't occur to any of them to throw me a shower. And to make matters worse, we had it at OUR house, because both of my sisters live in another state and my friend's house was too small/too far away! How's that for tacky! In the long run, it was nice having it at our house because then the gifts didn't need to be transported anywhere and as far as I know nobody was offended by the way we did it. At the time, I knew it went against the rules of etiquette but we had no offers from anyone else for a baby shower. And since we were having the first baby in our family and the first baby amonst most of our friends, no "hand me downs" were coming our way!

[PrincessFiona]

Wow...this is confusing! I didn't realize that there were so many 'rules' associated with showers/registries, etc.

We lived in Germany when I was pregnant with Andrew and there was no such thing as a baby shower...same with Amanda in N. Ireland. By the time I had Alex back in the states, he was baby#3 and it didn't even occur to me

As to the whole registering thing.....I think that I appreciate registries when they are.....reasonable 8) particularly for weddings.....I hate logging on to a registry though and finding that the least expensive offering is a single crystal glass for $50 or something. There is something about shopping for baby things though that makes me want to run out and do my own shopping for someone...I love browsing through the racks and trying to find that 'perfect' gift or making something that I think that they might appreciate for a long time.....so I don't tend to registry shop for others


kris