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The garland fell down twice before the guests even parked their cars. That was my sister’s shower. She’d ordered a gorgeous flocked garland off Pinterest, hung it with regular Scotch …
Why does every “winter baby shower” Pinterest board look like someone’s living room after Santa left? You searched winter baby shower girl and got flooded with icy blue balloons, red-and-green …
Gift cards are lazy. There, I said it. A winter baby shower is the one party all year where the weather does half your gift-picking for you, and yet most …
The mom-to-be is three gifts deep into a mountain of onesies, her sister is scribbling numbers on a bingo card, and someone in the back just yelled “BINGO” so loud …
The pumpkin split down the middle. Right through the word “Due,” which now read as two useless halves sitting in a Target parking lot at 8pm the night before a …
Most “fall pregnancy announcement” round-ups are lazy. They slap a skeleton onesie on a Halloween theme and call it a day, as if October only has one mood. It doesn’t. …
Grab a pumpkin, a letter board, and whatever sweater still fits your bump – we’re starting with the ideas themselves, no throat-clearing required. Before you scroll further, know this: “November …
“Wait… is that ultrasound picture taped to the pumpkin pie?” That was my sister-in-law, halfway through her second slice, squinting at the dessert table like she’d caught a typo in …
The pumpkin cracked in half on my kitchen table, right down the middle, ten minutes before my in-laws arrived. I’d carved “Baby Anderson, April 2027” into the shell like some …
Fall has a way of making an announcement feel bigger than it is – the pumpkins, the changing leaves, the sweater weather all do half the styling work for you. …