Blessed

We had our shower on Friday night, and we feel so blessed. That's really the only word to describe it. We feel blessed to have a baby on the way, and we feel blessed to have so much love and support during this process. That's kind of the way I've been feeling lately in general. Yesterday afternoon I went to a holiday tea at the Ritz Carlton with some friends for our annual ornament exchange and we started talking about a program here in the city that supplies bookbags of food for starving children. And I can't stop thinking about how lucky we are to have food on the table, a roof over our heads and a warm place to sleep tonight in this freezing weather. Not to be a debbie downer, but so many people in this world cannot count on those things day in and day out, so when I reflect on our shower Friday night I am really just left feeling overwhelmed with gratitude.

The house was decorated beautifully for Christmas, but the hostesses had added blue hydrangeas (my fave!), which was a gorgeous touch.





The backyard was set up beautifully - the pictures really don't do it justice, and the weather was perfect.



And we received so many wonderful and thoughtful gifts. I am really feeling kind of guilty about it all because truth be told, the real gift is being blessed with a child. I even debated whether I wanted to share some of the fun gifts we received, but I have had so much fun looking at them and putting them away that it felt weird not to.

We received some wonderful items to accessorize with, like this cute picture frame and rattle. The silver bowl is actually a porridge bowl from the hostesses and the intent is to get it personalized with his name and birth date. One of the hostesses has one for each of her children, and she puts them out with nuts and other snacks at the holidays. I thought that was a neat tradition.



We got lots of adorable blue items, all of which I love.

And these two precious outfits, which I can hardly wait to use next spring/summer.

I was thrilled about the lamp from our regsitry, as well as this adorable picture frame - it's really fun to see the personal touches coming together!

And you know we love anything and everything Saints related!

Last but not least, one of my friends sent these personalized items from this cute website. I love, love, love seeing his name! NOLA Tots has great gift items if you're in need of a gift for anyone!

We had an amazing time and I am happy to say that all of the thank you notes are written and mailed! Now I just need to finish washing and putting these items away, but that part is fun. We'll see if I think baby laundry is as fun in a few months...