My Quarantine Baby Shower

It was the spring of 2020, we were in the height of covid panic and quarantining and I was a couple of months away from having a baby. I desperately wanted to have a baby shower even though the chances of that happening were growing more and more dismal. My sweet sister-in-law had been planning one for me and went to a lot of work to plan and prep. We had made plans for the shower and she had offered to throw one for me pre-covid, so she had already done a lot of work by the time this all hit the fan. We had many conversations as the date grew closer debating on what the best decision would be. I held onto hope for so long that it would work out but most people were nervous about attending and Chelsea was pregnant and would have had to fly in from California which was a big risk.

Once I found out that Brian wouldn’t be allowed into the hospital if he was showing any symptoms, we made the difficult decision to cancel the shower. I knew it was the right call and that we were making the right decision but it didn’t make me any less sad that it wasn’t happening. I mourned for quite a long time about the fact that I didn’t get a shower to celebrate my baby and that my pregnancy was unconventional. But I am happy that we called it because it helped to ease a lot of my anxiety around the birth.

Little did I know that Chelsea and Brian’s parents were conspiring to gather up all of the shower stuff and bring it down to KC to surprise me for a little quarantine baby shower at our house!

They set up everything at our house like they would have at their house and it was so so cute! My mother-in-law arranged to have all of the shower guests stop by her house to decorate a onesie for Jude and everyone shipped their gifts to their house for them to bring along with them.

The beautiful quilt that Brian’s grandma made for Jude! We got to pick out the fabric so of course you know it HAD to be good ole’ Mick 😜

The adorable chair that our family friend Terry Hostetler hand painted for us.

We video called in my sister and brother-in-law and we filmed ourselves opening up every gift to send out to everyone so they watch.

Of course I dreamed of a regular old baby shower but this was so fantastic and made me feel so loved. I am so thankful for my family who helped me get through this bizarre and scary season of my life and I feel so blessed that my family and my baby boy are surrounded by so much love.