How to Host a Long Distance Baby Shower

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Another high-tech option is setting up a live video feed on a computer. If you have a computer and a web camera, and there is one available inrepparttar out of town location, it would be fun if out of town friends and family could gather together whilerepparttar 147420 local shower is being held. They could either hold a simultaneous shower (similar torepparttar 147421 videotape shower) or send their gifts torepparttar 147422 local shower and be "present" forrepparttar 147423 opening. If games are going to be played, any handouts should be sent torepparttar 147424 out of town guests, so that they can "participate", as well. Perhaps they could even serverepparttar 147425 same food.

Friends and family are so important inrepparttar 147426 life of a woman expecting a baby. Providing an opportunity for them to be present in some way for her shower is probablyrepparttar 147427 best gift that you could give her. If at all possible, find a way to involve those who can't be physically present.



Jill Manty is a stay at home and co-owner of www.delightfulchild.com, an online business dedicated to providing information about baby showers, breastfeeding, and natural parenting.


How to Throw a Baby Shower on a Budget

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Believe it or not, even if you don't consider yourself a baker, there are several alternatives to expensive bakery cakes. Cupcakes are very easy, and sugar or plastic decorations in baby themes are fairly easy to find. You can also use frosting to "glue" small plastic baby decorations torepparttar tops of Little Debbie snack cakes. These are precious, and they look like you spent a lot of time. Another option is to skiprepparttar 147419 traditional decorated cake, altogether, and go for individual cheesecakes (easy to make in muffin tins) or a delicious chocolate cake (make sure thatrepparttar 147420 mom-to-be isn't avoiding chocolate first). Cookies can make a great sweet treat also, and there are some really cute cookie cutters readily available. Finally, if you think you can make and frost a rectangular cake but are concerned about trying to do fancy decorations, you can find edible cake art images online. These are easy to apply torepparttar 147421 top ofrepparttar 147422 cake, and they arerepparttar 147423 same images used by bakeries.

Many ofrepparttar 147424 games and activities for a baby shower are free. There are printouts available online if you want to play games like bingo. While party favors are a nice touch for a shower, they certainly are not necessary. A personal thank you, in person or written, is all that is necessary to thankrepparttar 147425 guests for attending.

Throwing a baby shower is a wonderfully generous thing to do. It does not, however, have to breakrepparttar 147426 bank. Remember,repparttar 147427 most important thing when hosting a shower is to create wonderful memories for your friend. Years from now she will rememberrepparttar 147428 laughter andrepparttar 147429 thoughtfulness of her friends more than she will remember fancy favors or expensive cakes.

Jill Manty is a stay at home and co-owner of www.delightfulchild.com, an online business dedicated to providing information about baby showers, breastfeeding, and natural parenting.


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