The Mother of all Baby Showers!
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Man! What a hunt and what a lovely surprise! What fun! And what an amazing bunch of people! I do not have words to say what your gesture has meant to me and am sure the other MTBs feel the same.
Tharini – what a lovely idea! Thank you for that and what followed!
And what a gang – Tharini, Gauri, Altoid, Sujatha, MM, Reshma, Anupama, UTBT, Suki, Daisy, Chronic Worrier, Dipali, Kiran, MayG, Rita, Parul, Ceekay, Mona, Ams, Asha, DDMom, Sue, Sunita, Orchid, Broom, Yaadayaada, Shobana, Nisha, Choxbox, Trishna, Y, Priya (BEV), 2A’s Mommy, SilentOne, Ro, Eve’s Lungs (Mallika), Compulsive Dreamer, DotMom, Upsi, Anitha, K3, Mnamma, Aargee, Nat, Itchy, Sahithi’s Mom, Dee, Mummyjaan, Noon, SS, Aditi’s Mom, Big Zed, Premalatha, Sadhana, Raising T, Usha, ~nm, IBH, JLT, Swati, Timepass, Kowsalya, Squiggles Mom, ArtNavy and Neera!
How in God’s name did you lot, scattered as you are all around the world, cook up this fantastic idea and execute it so flawlessly? Girls, your talents are wasted being just bloggers! You should be running countries!
The biggest thing I felt when I was preggie with P six years back was loneliness – new to this country, far away from everyone I knew and no one to talk to, it was one of the worst time of my life. But this time around, things cannot be different. And the biggest difference is you lot – and of course, my fellow MTBs. That 3.00 AM feed will feel less lonely now, cos somewhere in the world, I know you lot are there, either going through it yourselves or cheering us on. You could not have given me a better present. Honest!
I have never felt so happy about being pregnant than during this exercise! Boy is it worth it for this feeling of happiness, this camaraderie alone!
I know that the rest of the blogosphere has been scratching its head coming across some of the riddles in these blogs. For them, and for anyone else who wants to know what these amazing girls have done, well, they have just gone and thrown us MTBs (or Mother-to-bes) – Boo, Maggie, Poppins Mom, Kodi’s Mom, Lavs, Planethalder, Random Vignettes, Rohini (and Priya and STS!) and moi, – a fabulous baby shower – online, of course! And they did it with all the stealth and guile of top Mossad agents.
We were sent on a massive treasure hunt! Yes! Tharini’s rhyming e-mail started us off, then it was off to UTBT, and on and on. They left amusing little ditties on their blogs and by solving each, we had to bloghop to where the clue pointed to next, only to collect an alphabet for our troubles. And the devious lot threw a few red herrings our way too, in the form of ‘blanks, just to spice things up a bit. Boo, we did say and yayy said they, def! On and on it went, over gazillions of blogs and unscrambling the letters got us the username and password and from Broom’s blog, to a special blog set up by these fantastic peeps, our very own Doula Gang, for us. Chock full of gyaan for the mums to be, recipes and a whole lot of love! Who’d've thunk it?
It all started yesterday when Boo came across one of these rhymes. Imagine her puzzlement when she found the “Riddle-me-ree” message on a few more blogs. She wrote a plaintive message, asking people what gives. What we got in response were gleeful cackles, even as we blundered through! As the day went on, rhyming ditties were springing up hither and thither and before long, we knew there was some sort of Treasure hunt on. It took a while to twig on the order to go. But one thing the Doula Gang had miscalculated was the determination of Boo, Maggie, Poppins mom, Kodi’s mom and Lavs to crack this or die trying. They made excel sheets and sat all night and Boo cracked it around 2.00 am! The Doulas had thought we would spend the weekend puzzling over this but Boo and the girls had the last laugh alright!
So that is what the Riddle-me-rees are all about. One of the most fantastic ideas, hatched and brought to fruition by some of the most devious and superior minds in the world! And what presents we have got – a massive loot of goodies in the form of the gyaan, of course, a beautiful collection of rhymes, fab memories, big barrel full of laughs and bestest of all, the key to one of the greatest communities, spanning language, cultures, countries and heck, whole continents.
One of a kind, laydees, that’s what you are. One of a kind. I think I can speak for the rest of the MTBs here when I say, we are bowled over by this massive love. I feel so privileged, that you included me in this special act. Mere words are not enough to express my gratitude. Long may your tribe increase!
wow. that is the sweetest thing ever!
Lovely post, DG. I think many of us who were mothers in the pre-blogging days know how lonely it can get. All the best for your pregnancy and delivery, and may your baby sleep soundly!
Hey – Nice to see you guys write such lovely posts – The organisers are going to be thrilled to bits on seeing your happiness and joy. And we spread across the globe – the tiny drops that contributed to the ocean – had fun all along and yesterday was the ultimate climax.Enjoy
Jeez, the 3 am feed line is sounding like Hillary’s 3 am call ad!
Lots of love and hugs DG! And congratulations!!!!!
Nice one DG !
We loved every minute of it ever since it started, the climax which became the anti climax wa the best though.
That was a nice post.. Thanks!
I don’t even know you, but you’re most most welcome,
Y’know it was great bonding together and anticipating together and laughing together… but the best thing by far of this shower is that we got to know so many more lovely bloggers… pregnant and otherwise
Hi Desigirl,
You are most welcome. And glad you liked it as much as we liked in contributing. Do drop in by my blog. Since I am really lazy to write up a post, I’m going to link you in my blog.
And BTW, you blog header rocks!
I agree with each and every word you had typed here:-0 Clap Clap Clap to all the brains behind this amazing treasure hunt!!!
your title could not have been more apt!
as JLT said, there were many contributors in there, who could say to me – ‘ i don’t even know you’ – we’d never interacted with each other in the blogworld…but that didn’t hamper their generous spirit to contribute their bit.
I’m still zapped by the enormity of the undertaking – but more by the willingness and generosity of all the contributors to give of themselves for people, some of whom they don’t even know.
hey DG, cool post.. if only you had not ignored my emails, maybe you would have heard more.. (well you will never know now, will you ?)
Jokes apart, we had so so much fun doing this, i havent had so much fun for a long long time now.
What a post, DG. I should have just linked to this post and kept mum. Why cant I ever write a touching post like this one? sigh! Agree with every word. And I am so blessed to be friends with you all! Take care.
Nice post DG.
apu:
yeah super or what? makes you want to get a bun in the oven double quick, eh what?
Doula Gang:
Super effort and one we will cherish for a long, long time. bloody good show, y’all.
Fellow MTBs:
As maggie said, I am amazed that people would go so far for folks they don’t even know.
Boo:
Stop fishing! You know you are a brill writer!
SilentOne:
for the record, I wasn’t ignoring you. If you had visited my blog earlier, you’d have come across the “drowning in coursework” to “help i am so ill” posts that clearly state my position.
well now you know what we think of you
we wuvs you!
btw, have i mentioned how much i love your new blog design? its absolutely perf. so glad you liked your shower.
Hugs DG. you all deserve it!
What a fantastic spread of your emotions. In a better way, it could not have been said.
The reward for me personally was in the journey I thought. But I realise how much I needed to be witness to all your emotions to complete that journey for me.
Thank you for this icing on the cake.
Stealth? Guile? Hmph, you weren’t supposed to know anything till the 25th – today! Too nosy and intelligent for your own good, you lot are
And yeah – throwing that shower was SO MUCH FUN!
Keep getting preggie, you people, we’d love to throw more such showers
Very nice post! It was our pleasure!!
Ams,
Oh you are such a sweetie. Do not worry, the favour shall def be returned manifold when your turn comes. (beaut of a template eh?) Are you worried yet about your once airy promise to help babysit if I have a girl?!
Dotmom,
*hugs* thank you!
Tharini,
You shld seriously consider running for office. Major applause for pulling this off. My mind boggles. I still am amazed at the sheer effort, the time and the enthu generated by this project! Like I said before, boy am I glad I got knocked up or what?!
Suki,
Blame the others for being nosy! I was quietly going potty with my studies and when I decided to take a break from it, I got swept by the manic enthusiasm of Boo, Maggie, Poppins and Kodi’s mom. And of course, a catatonic Lavs! You want fun with a shower, you get preggie next, gal!
Yaddayadda,
How you managed to keep the secret safe from Boo is beyond me. She puts moles to shame!
got to know you thru the process and let’s just say cheers!
enjoy ur pregnancy!
Dg,
Very very nice post. It is very nice to know you sweety.We had so much fun planning and discussing( and how!) and executing.Glod bless you and your family!
Oo we definitely underestimated you guys-what with all the planning for the 25th , as it was supposed to be an auspicious day and all.. you guys totally rocked!
*Hugs*
Glad you enjoyed the whole thing.
Thanks to you MTB’s, we also had loads of fun
Great post, DesiGirl. We loved every second of it – when it comes to something as momentous as motherhood, location, distance, and time zones don’t really matter! Hope you girls enjoyed it, too. Hugs
Glad you had fun, DG!
I sure did…
*** Hugs ***
Sorry to cut into your studies,
but hope you had lots of fun! You guys deserved it!
That was such a sweet post. I’m so glad you enjoyed it.
Hiya. Glad you had fun. Hope it didn’t put you too far off your coursework though
The hunt and the hysteria was so enjoyable that it made my Law coursework even more boring and yucky than it already is! sigh!
you whats with the mushy header and firangi dad? cant we have one of you guys in the header instead? we dont mind if its just your butt on view. slong as we get P in the header.
Yeah yeah yeah – will get to it soonish.
Firangi dad yes but check out the Taj Mahal in the middle!
am i the only one not liking your header? are you rudely going to evict me from your blog?
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Hmm..I guess you said it..am I glad I got knocked up or what!!!!!!!
Hit the nail on the head!
A very sweet post DG! We are glad you enjoyed it so much!
You are very welcome! And i feel most privileged to be part of this Doula Gang!
aw, what a sweet post. glad you guys enjoyed it.
we had fun (probably more than you guys) planning and executing it too!
truth be told, i was glad i was on the other side and not solving the riddles, some of those were haaard.
y’all are smart girls!
Desigirl, that was a very sweet ‘thank-you’. Good to know that you enjoyed it; the ‘doula gang’ has turned into a large family after this shower.
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Er… I was there too
I want to chinwag with you! In India. WAAAHHHH!!:(
Me too!!!! waaaahhh!!!
Missed reading your blog, chica! Am off there now to see what you’ve been upto!
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