manager53 — Page 22

A Baby Shower

My son and his wife, Shannon, are expecting their first baby in October. On Saturday my daughter, Emily, and I gave her a baby shower. We did a pink and blue theme as we do not know if the baby is a boy or girl — they wanted to be surprised. So the basic theme was “is it a girl?” or ” is it a boy?”. We had pink Jordan Almonds and blue Jordan Almonds and pink mints and blue mints — even pink and blue lemonade. I think it turned out quite well and she had family and friends that traveled all the way from Pennsylvania to be here for her — about a 5 hour drive, I think. It was only nine months ago we had a shower for my daughter Meredith, and now, less than a year later, we will have another little grandchild.

We made lemonade and used food coloring to try to make it blue — it looks more green blue to me but my daughter insists that it is blue. It was the best we seemed to be able to do, anyway. The pink was easy.

Reagan definitely liked the decorations and she also liked the food — the little that her mom let her taste.

I saw this idea and thought it was cute — make a calendar and have everyone write their name in the box with the date that they think the baby will arrive. Then the mom-to-be takes it home to keep.

A friend’s daughter checking to see if her guess on how big around Shannon’s tummy is could be the closest guess. We joked and told her she could NOT measure herself to get an idea of the correct measurement.

Summer’s End

I have really enjoyed this summer — the one we decided to do almost nothing. We have spent a lot of time at home — kids playing outside and reading. We have gone to the pool and our local amusement park several times, out for ice cream and had a family video night — one where I actually talked my older kids into coming over and watching our old family videos. I feel like I have been able to spend more time reading to the kids and just talking to them, without having to rush around. I am not sure if my daughter that suggested we do nothing this summer will feel the same way next summer, but I for one have really enjoyed the slower pace. I am rather sad for summer to end — even though I do love fall.

In three weeks we will start back to school. Sarah and Caroline are very excited about school as they have new backpacks. We do home school so they don’t really wear the backpacks out anywhere but keep all of their school books in them so they will stay together. I am finishing up plans and getting last minute books so we will have everything we need to start — I feel like I need more time.

I bought a set of tiny fairies for Bethany and she has played and played with them outside under the trees.

My granddaughter, Reagan, came to visit weekly this summer. Last week when she came she sat in the high chair and watched Sarah and Jordan make brownies.