Pink and Baby Showers

BeeKind Cookies
Jan 13, 2018
2 min read

I love pink. The color pink (well, I have been known to like music sung by Pink!). The pale pink and maybe some hot pink. But mostly pale pink. The kind that makes you think about baby girls or ballet shoes or tutus. None of which is in my immediate realm of contact . . . well, maybe the baby girl.

I was given the opportunity to help host a baby shower for a young Davidson friend who is having a baby girl -- any day now! We decided to have a Book Baby Shower since our connection to Emily is our Davidson Women's Book Club. And my pale pink obsession went into overdrive. Pink flowers, pink ribbons, pink paper, anything pink.

As an aside, I feel as if I need to clarify my obsession with pale pink. I think it comes from my mom's mother . . . who if you knew her, might be the last person you would think liked the color pink. My grandmother was of that hard shoe wearing, kitchen floor cleaning, always in an apron, practical and sensible generation. The type that remarked when my grandfather died before entering the church, "now there will be no crying here." Irene was not one you would picture with pale pink anything, but that was her favorite color. And places in her home always came as a surprise to me . . . the fancy glass dishes on the dresser to keep bobby pins and safety pins in had beautiful painted pink flowers on them (I have them in my guest room). The china I have inherited from her that has pretty little

flowers all around the border. She had a picture of a little girl in an Impressionsistic style in the room I slept in at her house. I loved seeing that girl every time I slept in that room. And the clothes she sewed for me (and there were a lot of those), while practical and sturdy, were always pink. My grandmother had one daughter (my mom) and two granddaughters (my cousin in CA and me). Our world in that family was full of boys. Lots of boys. Loud boys. I spent lots of time with my grandmother doing very unexciting things like snapping beans and setting the table. And we both really liked the color pink. I always think of her when I see pale pink, and I always smile.

But back to the baby shower . . . pink and children's books! No way to make me happier. I pulled out all of the old family favorites, cruised Pinterest for some ideas, and we had a blast. Foods that were on theme with various story books, a game (highly competitive) requiring us to name the storybook characters, and a gift from one of our members of a bookshelf quilt! Enjoy the pictures from the fun time we had showering a new little reader coming into the world! And of course, there were cookies from beekind cookies to finish out the evening!