Helping a Friend

Hi everyone!!

My name is Stephanie and I am trying to help a friend out. I am going to start off with a sad story about my friend and why I am trying to reach out and get some help. I am a first grade teacher and I have a 2 year old myself. With my teacher salary, I can really only do so much. Times like this makes me wish I was a millionaire

My Friend is 30 weeks pregnant come this Thursday. I tried to throw her a baby shower this past weekend but it didn’t go as planned. I sent out many invitations and I only had a handful who RSVP. So I got to work right away and started calling and texting those who didn’t RSVP in time. Out of 27 people 18 were planning on coming. I rented out my parents boat house, ordered balloons, watermelon decorations, 3 different games plus gifts for all 3, food, and more. Planning this for my friend made me so happy and I was so excited to host her baby shower too. Did I go over my budget hahahha yes, yes I did! This Saturday her shower was from 12-3. I brought everything over the night before and woke up very early to start decorating that morning. At 11:45am my friend walked down the ramp with my mom and she was so excited and emotional at the same time. Of course it made me cry to see how happy she was to she her baby shower. Noon finally came and two of her friends from work came. 12:30 came and it was still just us five. Her mother and sister weren’t able to make it because they live in Hawaii and plane tickets were to expensive but they were on FaceTime the whole time. 12:45 came and another friend came (her husband got home late and she needed a break from her child lol) 1:00 came around and it was us 6 plus 2 on FaceTime. 2:00 came around and it was still only us. 3:00 came and it was still us 6. No one else came to her baby shower. No one texted or called us to let us know.

I can’t even explain the emotions I was feeling come 3:00. It’s NOT because I planned for almost 2 months, or had to reach out to people who apparently don’t understand what RSVP by means, or the amount of money I spend on decorations, games, gifts, beautiful watermelon theme cake, and the diaper cake that kicked my butt trying to put together lol. It’s BECAUSE I had to watch my Best friend eyes fill with tears and her trying so hard to hold them back.

I don’t really know what to do or how to do it but it doesn’t hurt to try to see if anyone can help. Sorry about the long post but thank you so much for taking the time to read this!!