Shower Power

As many of you know, it's something of a tradition to have friends and family get together a few weeks before the big event and have a party. Usually, it involves games, tasty food, gag gifts, sexy lingerie...

Wait? What? Oh, right. Wrong type of shower...

Sexy receiving blankets I meant to say.

And as Kristen and I are big fans of tradition (at least traditions in which gifts are given), we're having a baby shower. Our friends Katia and Tara are helping organize it, and Katia sent out the announcements via e-mail a couple of weeks ago. Many of you reading this are likely saying, "Wait, I received no such e-mail!" And, really, that could only be because of one of three reasons.

Reason one: Spam filters. As much as we love that all the African royalty or penis enlargement e-mails go straight into our junk folder, sometimes legitimate messages also go in there (like, for example, did you know I can get name brand watches for under $50? My spam filter sure doesn't want me to!). And we reckon that a lot of people that were sent e-mails never actually saw them.

Reason two: You live too darn far away. We have friends and family all across the country, and in many cases Kristen and I figured that you couldn't get here and didn't bother inviting you. (Actually, this was a point that I was against. I told her, "Look, we know that they can't come, but if we invite them, maybe they'll send us stuff anyway!" Kristen, being the kind one of the couple, gave me that face that said, "Be good." I'm trying, honey. Really, I'm trying.)

Reason three: Uh... we don't really know you. It came to my attention recently that there may be people who read this blog who have no idea who we are. I mean, they know of us tangentially. That somehow either complete strangers or friends of our friends or relatives are reading this. And that's fine. I'm a ham, and I love the attention. But we're not going to invite you to the baby shower. That would just be a little creepy. You can still buy us gifts, of course. (And if the gift's nice enough, maybe we'll invite you to Barnabas' first birthday party. That won't be nearly as creepy.)

The shower is in a couple weeks -- June 21 -- on the patio in our back yard. The highlight of the afternoon will likely be cupcakes and deviled eggs, two of my favorite foods. (Not at the same time, of course, but they're safe if you wait a half-hour between eating each. Kind of like not swimming right after lunch.)

So, if you didn't get an invitation or you think you should've gotten an invitation or you're one of those creepy cyber stalkers and want to convince us to give you an invitation, drop one of us a line and we'll give you all the gory details.

Remember: cupcakes and deviled eggs.

And sexy receiving blankets.