Cyber baby shower?
Haven't you heard? Cyber baby showers are all the rage. Ok, well, not yet they aren't--but after I have one they will be! The woman who threw me my baby shower, the loveliest in all of Brooklyn, moved to the West Coast after she became pregnant.
From the time she moved to California--not long after she told people she was pregnant--to the various holidays, she is now too pregnant to fly back home to New York for a baby shower. Since it would be logistically difficult not to mention expensive to fly all her New York pals (she was born and raised here) to California and she's to preggy to fly, I was thinking of trying to throw her a cyber baby shower.
I have a webcam in my computer, and her husband, who is an electronics guru, would take care of the other end. We would ask invitees to send all their presents in advance to the house in CA then meet up at my place to web cam with my pal while she opened her presents live on the ether waves.
It could be fun and an interesting experiment or it could be a total disaster. Or it could be something in between. Webcams--at least the ones I've been in contact with--are spotty at best. You may get a link to a friend and everything will be going fine when suddenly you lose contact for who knows what reason.
You spend as much if not more time trying to fix the problem as interacting with the person on the other end of the line, and the whole episode can lead to frustration.
That said, it could be a wonderful thing for my friend, who moved to a new city with no friends (yet) and no family around. There isn't anyone to throw her a shower in California, and she can't come back to New York. So, it seems like this may be the best option.
And she deserves a shower--every pregnant gal does. So I am going to do my best to make this thing happen. I think with the technology I have in hand we should be able to pull this thing off. Wish me luck!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Valerie 12-12-2007 @ 4:25PM
It's a great idea! I live a world away from my friends and family and recently had a cyber shower and I know others who have done the same. In our case, our mothers (or whoever) opened the presents for us in the U.S. and then brought them to us later. It's great to get to share that special time with people.
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LS 12-12-2007 @ 10:07PM
I hosted a long-distance Housewarming for my best friend a couple of years ago. She moved up to Alaska, and all her friends were still here. So I contacted all of them, and asked them to send me "easy to ship" gifts - mostly gift cards for household stores (sears, bed bath & beyond, etc). Once they arrived, I put them all in a box, and added my own gift card and a batch of to-die-for brownies. And then I added the gifts from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life"... salt, so her new life would have flavor; bread so the house would never know hunger; and wine, that joy and prosperity may reign forever (I gave her a letter on top of the box with cash in it, so she could buy her own wine. I knew it would never make the trip in the mail)
She called me when she was opening the box, and we laughed and cried all over it. She said that it eased the way for her, and made her feel extremely loved.
Good luck with your cyber shower. I hope it's a stunning success!
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rebecca Biernesser 12-12-2007 @ 10:37PM
I think it's wonderful idea. Being alone with no friends or family around when u are pregnant is not fun at all. At least this way she has proof that people do miss her and are thinking about her. And u know she is thinking "look how much such I have to get" and stressing about it.
I say GO FOR IT :-)
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Sandyone 12-13-2007 @ 7:46AM
Good luck! Your lucky friend! With all of them moving we do, I'm always "the new girl" and have had only a few showers for my gang of kids. I missed my first baby shower courtesy of Saddam Hussein, so my parents trucked down the gifts and pictures from the great party they had without me, as my leave was cancelled so I could get my husband back for deployment to the Middle East. This was before anybody but the geekiest had internet.
So, yeah...plan the shower and have a great time!
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Lorne 12-17-2007 @ 2:53AM
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