major faux pas.

So, on March 7th our awesome church held a baby shower for us, and I think we got a kazillion gifts. Seriously though, our church family is incredible, and we got so much stuff! This shower was 5 weeks before Natalie's due date, which leaves plenty of time to write thank-you notes. Theoretically. Turns out, Natalie was born 3 weeks early. Fortunately for us, we had about a week's notice that she would likely be born early; unfortunately, we were not ready. So the last week before her birth, I was running around trying to get the nursery ready, get gifts put away, etc. If you've had a baby, you know what I mean...only you probably had a little more time than a week to do this. :) Anyway...with all that, of course the thank-you notes didn't get finished before she was born. I started them while we were in South Carolina waiting to bring Natalie home.

Then...mommyhood sunk in. How is it that someone so small can demand so much of your time? I continued to work on the thank-you notes, but it sure was slow going. And this brings me to my major faux pas. At some point I pushed the "thank-you note writing setup" aside while cleaning up. And for me, something like this leads to "out of sight, out of mind". I totally forgot to finish them!! Oh my goodness, my child just turned 4 months old & I haven't finished writing my thank-you notes. If you are reading this, and you got us a gift but haven't received a thank-you note, I am SO SORRY! We truly are so grateful for all of the gifts we have received. At this point, I want to write the notes but I'm so embarrassed that they're so late. {I mean, can I just send these people messages on facebook or something? Geez.} At any rate, hopefully I'm not the only person in the world who has been THIS late to write thank-you notes. {Right? Someone humor me & just LIE and say you did the same thing...}

A word of advice for you expecting mothers: don't wait until after the baby is born to write your thank-you notes! And also...don't put them out of your sight or you'll forget about them!

P.S. Why am I blogging? I should be working on those notes RIGHT NOW. Geeeeezzzz.