Baby Boomers, Part 2 - Baby Showers

Last week, I received the invitation for my friend’s baby shower in the mail. It’s exciting to hear that your friends are doing well and that their happiness has created life. Just in the same way that fashion trends seem to make a full 360 every few years, it seems that the baby boomer trend has done the same. In spite of the economic crisis, couples continue to expand their families with more tiny miracles.

Because it is not our place to advise our friends and family to put their family plans on pause until the financial crisis is stable, why not lift our glasses and make a toast to the babies in the oven? Gather your closest girlfriends and make sure the guest of honor’s shower is a memorable one. Pick a theme (maybe even one that matches the nursery theme) and split the work. It’s a baby shower for goodness sake; you can’t go wrong with all of the baby stuff out there. Walk down the baby shower aisle and take a gander at the different collections in order to start getting ideas.

This afternoon at work, we were discussing possible baby shower gifts because my friend’s is coming up fairly quickly. It’s always such a pain to find the perfect gift because you don’t want to show up with the same gift as the next 10 people. It may not be an Einstein-ish idea, but we decided on a DIY gift basket containing embroidered baby burp cloths, bottles and maybe an outfit or two. A baby shower themed cake made out of cloth baby diapers could also be adorable (make sure and get some cupcakes—pregnant women + hunger is never good).

Just a thought.