What a great idea!

One of my neighbors is having a baby. A bunch of the neighbors are invited to the baby shower. This is her first child and we’d like to get her something nice. We decided to go together so we can get her one large gift. She needs everything, but we’re thinking about getting her a pack-n-play/bassinet. It’s always such a hassle to be the one in charge of the “group gift” though. That is, until I found edivvy.com. This website has items available for purchase and will send invitations to your friends to participate. Every “invitee” gets to see who is going in on the gift. Each person pays his own portion of the bill and the gift recipient receives the gift shipped directly to their home. It couldn’t get much simpler than that.

I can envision using this service for mother's day gifts and splitting the cost between my sisters. That way I wouldn’t have to purchase an item and hope that my siblings pay me back! Another good idea is to use it for gifts ideas for teachers - gift ideas for parents and other people who work in a group setting with our kids. There are also been several times where groups of us who live all over the country want to get a gift for someone, and edivvy would be the perfect solution to that!

Parents To Be

As most of you know, we are an adoptive family, so I didn't give birth to my kids. But even so, I still had the same questions that expecting moms have. Will it be a boy or girl (we were open to the gender of our first child, so it was a surprise to get a boy)? What color should we paint the nursery? And the BIG question - what should we name these kids of ours? Pregnancy is a great source to find answers to all of your questions. And it goes beyond that - even after your baby is born, you can use it as a resource for all of your parenting questions. They even have pages for PreTeen and Teens - the place I've suddenly found myself - I can't believe the years have passed so quickly. I'm going to head over there right now to see what the top baby names are in 2009!