The Personal Touch
I guess you can say that I am old school. My cousin who is all of 20 something is having her second baby next month, another girl. So, I was expecting a paper invitation for her baby shower. After all, her father and I grew up together. He was a few younger then me and he lived next door to me for years until he was in the 3rd or 4th grade. Then his parents moved three blocks away after they brought a house. So, when he had his kids after he grew up my sister babysat his older kids and so when his daughter got married and had her first daughter two years ago, next month I was expecting some kind of invite either in the mail or even by text would have made me happy. I waited and waited and waited and the next thing I knew I was getting a text message from her dad saying she had the baby. I was like, "What?" already? I had no idea. So, after the fact, I brought the baby gift and dropped it off. I saw the baby for a few minutes and that was the one of the few times I got to see her being that my cousin lives sort of far away. The way I found out she was expecting her second daughter was through Facebook. I happened to be scrolling along the news feed or whatever they call it now and I saw a post saying that she wanted to know is there anything she can take for morning sickness. So, I asked her if she was pregnant and she responded about ten minutes later and said that she was. So, she posted various "belly" pictures, mostly on Instagram, of her growing belly and then posted the baby's name.
As the days, and months passed and her due date got closer I mentioned to my sister that we hadn't gotten an invitation for her upcoming baby shower that I knew that she would have. So, I finally see a post on social media that says you are invited to a baby shower, It's a girl. I said hump. Read it again. So, I asked my sister did she know about it and she said no. So, I said well, I will call her and ask why I didn't get at least a call, text, letter, anything but a post on social media and she explained to me that is the way "they" do it now. I said who is "they" and she said her generation. Social media is the way they post stuff and find out stuff. I told her I was fine with that but I am old school and sometimes I need the personal or more of a personal touch even a phone call since I know that a paper invitation would be beyond the realm of possibilities from a 20 something year old.
She laughed and promised that when or if she has a third child she will personally invite me to the baby shower. That's all I asked for and made me smile.
As the days, and months passed and her due date got closer I mentioned to my sister that we hadn't gotten an invitation for her upcoming baby shower that I knew that she would have. So, I finally see a post on social media that says you are invited to a baby shower, It's a girl. I said hump. Read it again. So, I asked my sister did she know about it and she said no. So, I said well, I will call her and ask why I didn't get at least a call, text, letter, anything but a post on social media and she explained to me that is the way "they" do it now. I said who is "they" and she said her generation. Social media is the way they post stuff and find out stuff. I told her I was fine with that but I am old school and sometimes I need the personal or more of a personal touch even a phone call since I know that a paper invitation would be beyond the realm of possibilities from a 20 something year old.
She laughed and promised that when or if she has a third child she will personally invite me to the baby shower. That's all I asked for and made me smile.
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