Life with the Three Crazy Dogs

I got an email from SD yesterday morning re her baby shower:

Hi there,
Well I am getting ready to help my sister plan a baby shower…. Just seeing if there is anyone that I should invite that I didn’t think of…. also Dawn do you want to come? (it is going to be at my mother’s house) I figure I give you that warning before you decide. If you want to that would be cool, but if not I understand also!! So if not maybe we can do lunch and some shoppig some saturday or something? let me know what you guys think……
k talk to you later
ME!

*Sigh*, I’m in a dilemma now.   The shower is on Saturday, March 15.  I want to go but then………if you get the drift.  I have been to her mom’s house once but that was when her mom was at work.  I saw her sisters before but that is a different thing.   I suppose it would be easier to go have lunch and then go shop just the two or three of us (SD, BF/DB and me).  She has pretty much got most of every thing set for the nursery.  And I’m sure she is going to register with Target and Baby r’Us for her baby shower. 

I have only attended three baby showers so far.  When I received my first invite several years ago, I was like “What the heck is a baby shower?!!”  I never heard of baby shower when I was in Malaysia.   To be honest, when my friend in Ipoh gave birth to her son, I think that was 13 or 14 years ago, I gave her an angpow and bought some newborn clothes for her.  The angpow for her was a little bit fatter because she was my good friend, it’s like a special treatment for her.

Before I attended my coworkers’ baby showers, both mom-to-be told me they were registered at Target, Kohls, Walmart, and Baby rUs.  They registered at these stores for what kind of stuff they want for their baby.  For example, milk bottles, clothes, bath mat, blankets stroller, etc.  The invited guests can go to any one of these stores and go to the kiosk for Baby Showers, type in the mother’s name and it will print out what the mother wants for her baby/nursery. 

The day of the shower and usually the guests will be all females, there will be food and baby shower games.   I remember the one game we had was each guest has to change the “baby’s” diaper and whoever changes it the fastest, she will win a prize.  When my turn came and tried to change the diaper with whatever experience I had when I was babysitting my nephews, I flipped and flopped the “baby” so hard every one knew I am not a baby handler.  If that was a real baby, that baby would be in pieces!  It’s fun to attend coz you are with your friends.

Anyways, I still have some time to think about SD’s baby shower, and I know if I go, I would be very uncomfortable coz I do not know the people she invited except few of her friends, and then I have to deal with her relatives.  I guess I have already have an answer for her….”No, I won’t be going.”