{"id":26,"date":"2008-07-01T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/momstoolbox.wordpress.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-07-01T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T14:00:43","slug":"ya-gotta-have-friends-to-throw-a-baby-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/ya-gotta-have-friends-to-throw-a-baby-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Ya gotta have friends to throw a baby shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so that&#8217;s an obvious one&#8230; Who else would you host a baby shower for other than a friend?<\/p>\n<p>But, other than that, ya gotta have friends to make it just right&#8230; or at least it certainly helps. A few weekends ago I hosted a baby shower along with 2 other women. Karen, an amazing single gal and one of the co-hosts, made these fantastically adorable cupcakes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/baby-cupcakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/baby-cupcakes.jpg?w=199\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(This girl is going to make the coolest mom ever one day, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before the shower, I was chatting about it with some girlfriends and I learned that another friend, Roxanne,\u00a0is a pro at making diaper cakes. She just happened to have this one setting around, waiting for the appropriate ribbons and party:<a href=\"http:\/\/momstoolbox.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/diaper-cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39\" src=\"http:\/\/momstoolbox.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/diaper-cake.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cha-ching! I scored on the creative friends department&#8230; as did our guest of honor. (And all I had to do was open the doors to my home, tidy up and set out some food and drink!)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, gals!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so that&#8217;s an obvious one&#8230; Who else would you host a baby shower for other than a friend? But, other than that, ya gotta have friends to make it just right&#8230; or at least it certainly helps. A few weekends ago I hosted a baby shower along with 2 other women. Karen, an amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertaining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}