Registry and Baby Shower

Back about a month ago, my sister offered to throw a baby shower for me and I was greatly appreciative. She mentioned the idea to my mom and my mom told her it wasn't necessary, that my aunts had offered to throw it and to leave it up to them. 3 weeks later, I hadn't heard a word about a shower from any of my aunts and was starting to feel very anxious. If there wasn't going to be a shower, I wanted to start buying things that we need when they were on sale and when we had coupons. Finally, last weekend, my sister called my mom and told her that the aunts were taking too long and that she was going to organize the shower. If any of them wanted to help her, great. If not, she'd handle it all. My mom agreed with her and offered up her house as the venue.

Cue a big sigh of relief from me! My sister has jumped right into the planning process and the shower will be held July 17. She even offered to invite all of Bill's family and have one large shower since my mother in law had also offered me a shower but hasn't said a word about it since. In her defense, she is getting married July 30 and is kind of overwhelmed with all of the planning that goes along with that.

I also have a work shower being planned by my co-teacher on June 21. I'm so lucky to work with such generous people since this will be my second shower in one school year! They threw me a shower back in October for our wedding but insisted that it wasn't a problem to have 2 in one year.

Bill and I registered a few weeks ago and I've been slightly obsessed with checking the registry to make sure everything is still available and to see if we are missing anything. I got into an awful habit of stalking our registries when we got married and definitely ruined a few surprises (did you know that JCPenney not only tells you what has been purchased but also who bought it?) so I promised myself that once things started to be purchased from the baby registries, I'd stop looking. That wasn't a problem until this morning. I checked the registries this morning and our travel system was purchased! I don't know who bought it so that will still be a surprise but that means that I can't look at the registries anymore! Bummer. Let's see if I can keep my promise to myself!