My husband comes from a large family-7 siblings and 17 nephews and nieces. Understandably many weddings and children so many wedding and baby showers.
We of course did not have any children.
We also live the farthest away from the others.
So a niece is coming from texas to have were baby shower from her parents side of the family. Her mother had a severe stroke in 2007 and passed away summer of 2010. So I think her sister and her mom's two remaining sister's are putting on the shower.
The shower is about 60 miles away from my house. And the key if I had to rank the nieces she would be on the bottom of the list. I think back to her wedding in 2009 and I don't even think she spoke to me or my husband other than the receiving line at the church. She is very full of herself (as well as her husband).. Her parent went into debt to send her to a very good college but she didn't apply herself very well and got very poor grades despite the fact she graduated at the top of her class in high school.
I think you may get that I don't not care for her very much. In fact I don't even want to attend her baby shower. I looked at all the items she registered for and shook my head for all the expensive items on her list. Her husband does have a pretty good job and I have a feeling she will quit her job once the baby is born.
I in fact wanted to for a gift donate baby items to either the local domestic abuse shelter or the homeless shelter. I mentioned this to one of her aunts (my SIL) and she wasn't sure of that!
So do I drive over 2 hours to attend a two hour shower (also being an aunt is also expected to bring a dish of food to pass!).
Just send a gift card from one of her places she registered (or my idea)?
If we had typical winter weather sunday and it snowed I would have an out for sure. Or maybe a sudden cold coming on.....
We of course did not have any children.
We also live the farthest away from the others.
So a niece is coming from texas to have were baby shower from her parents side of the family. Her mother had a severe stroke in 2007 and passed away summer of 2010. So I think her sister and her mom's two remaining sister's are putting on the shower.
The shower is about 60 miles away from my house. And the key if I had to rank the nieces she would be on the bottom of the list. I think back to her wedding in 2009 and I don't even think she spoke to me or my husband other than the receiving line at the church. She is very full of herself (as well as her husband).. Her parent went into debt to send her to a very good college but she didn't apply herself very well and got very poor grades despite the fact she graduated at the top of her class in high school.
I think you may get that I don't not care for her very much. In fact I don't even want to attend her baby shower. I looked at all the items she registered for and shook my head for all the expensive items on her list. Her husband does have a pretty good job and I have a feeling she will quit her job once the baby is born.
I in fact wanted to for a gift donate baby items to either the local domestic abuse shelter or the homeless shelter. I mentioned this to one of her aunts (my SIL) and she wasn't sure of that!
So do I drive over 2 hours to attend a two hour shower (also being an aunt is also expected to bring a dish of food to pass!).
Just send a gift card from one of her places she registered (or my idea)?
If we had typical winter weather sunday and it snowed I would have an out for sure. Or maybe a sudden cold coming on.....