I miss baby showers and first birthday parties

My sweet boys are turning 13 and 14 next weekend, and I can hardly believe it! It really blows me away, that the time went by so quickly! I adore my children, and I love to watch them grow and mature and experience ‘big kid’ life, but, I dearly miss those early years. There is something so amazingly sweet about being pregnant and being the mom of babies and toddlers. It was so hard and physically exhausting, that I had no idea just how much I would miss it, but miss it, I do!

And the slightest thing will set me off to crying and being all sappy (and having a houseful of teens laughing at me!). For instance, yesterday, I was thinking about how I was going to preserve Shawn’s ‘blankie’ that he got when he was still in my belly. It came from my aunt, and she gave it to me at my baby shower for him. And then I was off thinking about my baby showers and how sweet they were! And I was getting sappier by the minute!

Baby showers and first birthday parties – they are so special, and I bet lots of moms out there, just like me, run across an old napkin, or an old decoration – and just swell up with those sweet, loving feelings! Those occasions should definitely be treated very special, so that you can hold on to those memories forever.

A nice place to shop online for such occasions is PartyPail.com.

One of the big reasons that I like their baby shower party supplies so much is that everything is themed together and geared towards helping you preserve the memories. Their packages have various things, but, some of them have baby shower game books, and shower registries, and they match the theme of the party. So this is a great way to preserve your memories of the party. But the coolest part, is that some of them have matching scrapbooking supplies – so you can fully embed that theme in your memories.

This is so cool, because the more ways that you can connect with the party in your memories – the stronger the memories will be. Like with me, I bought Patrick’s first birthday party supplies at a local party store in the town where we lived. And every time we would go in there, for years afterward (for Halloween costumes, party gear, or whatever) I would see that exact same theme of first birthday party stuff, and I would just feel all of those awesome feelings all over again. If I had had something like the products at PartyPail.com, that would be so cool! They just offer you all that many more ways to preserve those memories of that special time! I love that!

I really like the Mod Mom baby shower theme that they have! The sweet, pregnant mama under the pink umbrella is so cute! And the text that goes with it is so sweet:

“Booties and bottles, diapers and pins, this is where the love begins.”

And the cool thing is the way they have bundled some of their products up into ‘kits’, so that you can just buy what you need without having to really think about putting it all together. Then if you need more than what is in the kit, or any extras, you can add those on, too. It can be really confusing trying to plan a party and figure out what all you need. So this extra bit of help you get from their prepackaged sets is awesome!

And they have these party-planning PDF worksheets on their site – for free! That is so cool! So you can just go and print them out, and plan your party like a pro! They have a budget worksheet, a birthday timeline, and a shower timeline. When a company offers free things to customers that are helpful, that is a big plus in my book! I feel honored that Party Pail sponsored this review, so that I could tell all of you about it!