Pseudo Baby Shower

Tomorrow is a pseudo baby shower for a friend of mine at work.  It's not an official baby shower, with gifts and all, because this is her second child.  I've heard you generally only have a traditional baby shower for baby #1.  My friend is having daughter #2. 

I was the main organizer of the shin-dig.  It's nothing fancy -- 12 women, lunch and cake down in the cafeteria.  It's more of a celebration/send off than an actual baby shower.  This is the first occasion like this I have organized.  If you read my post the other day about being shy and plagued by social anxiety, that is probably not a surprising fact.  I've learned a couple of things though.  A: I am actually capable of organizing an event.  B: It's actually fun!  It feels really good to do this for my friend. She is going to be thrilled and I can't wait to see the look on her face when we all surprise her.

Last night The Boy took me shopping to buy a couple of small gifts.  I ended up buying a Miracle Blanket after much praise from the great mommy blogger Amalah.  I also couldn't resist buying 2 teeny tiny newborn outfits.  My friend was recently telling me she needed more newborn size things because her first child was well over 9 lbs and so she didn't buy many newborn size things and thus doesn't have much for this child who is expected to be a couple of pounds smaller.