Celebrating the Gift of Life

 I am going to be honest. I don't often hostess anything if I can help it. I like details, and I am not very easy going, so if I am going to have a function at my home, even though it will be as simple as can be, I know it is going to be a lot of work. This is all work I am going to choose to do and that I WANT to do so that I feel ready in all ways. This weekend I had a baby shower here for my sister. This is my first little niece and I wanted to feel functional enough to do this for my sister. I was happy and grateful that I could. This was a family shower so family from my mom's side of the family and from my sister's husband's side of the family and my sister's came. About half the guests had not met my sister's baby yet. She is eight weeks old now and doing so well. Everyone came over to my house and we did not do all that much but eat and chat and snuggle the baby and it was really lovely.

It took me three days to get my house in order for this event but no one would know that because of the chipped walls and stained carpets. We had our rooms to clean because you could not really walk into my children's rooms. We had the bathroom to scrub down, vacuuming needed to be done three times and dusting, mirrors needed to be cleaned, floors washed, and the list went on and on. I didn't personally make any food because as great as that would have been I had to be realistic, but there was still food prep to do and so even though the pictures will show the simplest of everything it was not like I could just whip that up. I am just, as I said, being honest. It was work and worth it. Social media honesty okay...

I did keep the shower very simple but I did ask my mother to speak a blessing over my sister. Going forth with blessing holds so much power. If you can ~ bless people with your words and actions. I hope my sister will hold that in her heart. Motherhood is a massive venture to start on and you need all the blessing you can get! Here are the pictures :) Enjoy.

All week I had been thinking about making this little banner. I had had grander ideas but I didn't start it until the night before. I love it. I have not sewn anything for about seven years or maybe more...so it was inspiring. This was the only decore other than flowers.

I bought a boquet from a flower shop and my sweet husband went to his mother's house and picked some sunflowers and we got roses from our back yard and had fun making little boquets. My oldest added pink ribbons to the vases and our hearts were happy.

 The food was from various locations :) My mom made a stunning veggie platter and some of her famous cheese scones. My aunty made some delicious meatballs. Save On Foods or maybe it was Safeway did their part by adding a couple cakes and a local bakery added various squares and the list went on.

   When the guests  arrived we chatted, ate, my mom spoke her blessing, we opened gifts and enjoyed the afternoon. It was so lovely! Here are the rest of the pictures.