Her Name is Rio

and she doesn't have any shame
she wears leg warmers
and she dances through the pain
and when her kids beg her
to stop she says no way
oh Rio's husband is late
for his tennis game




Yes, there WAS a lot of air tennis guitar in the 80s...I was there:



The preppy and the club dancer with a heart 'o gold:



Ralph Macchio, 'dat you?





Most naturally awesome:



Best dancer by far:



We went to an 80s party, obviously. Almost busted a friend's tooth out with a karaoke microphone. It was aight.

Showering with others...

I did a lot of that this past month. This one was for my lovely S.I.L., who just delivered her first daughter several days ago.

Gerberas

Pretty mommy

Birds and bees

The great-grandma

Lady-like centerpiece

Peach bellinis

Your biceps are bigger than mine

Centerpiece-photos of the parents with silly chidhood memories printed on the back

Guinness chocolate and vanilla creamcheese

And vanilla and lemon...I piped the frosting on and ordered handmade sugar paste flowers so they didn't look too "bake sale"

Liked the frosting

My grandma...she made me serve her champagne all afternoon!

Banner Garland

This may or may not have something to do with this post.
Don't hate me 'cuz it's cutesie...dontcha know it's hip to be square?

Shower-itis

Imagine that you've been to ten baby showers and bridal showers in the space of three months. And they have all been perfectly wonderful but...you're kinda over it. The polite, seated, small-talking, "how lovely"-ness of it all. And then, cheerfully blinking in your inbox, you see it. "XYZ has sent you an E-vite." You consider not opening it. You consider begging off due to "finger food allergies recently acquired." You have nightmares about tulle-wrapped banquet tables and babies breath (the flowers, not the real breath...cuz everyone loves that stuff!) You pray for Polio to make a comeback in your neighborhood (sorry, I'll be in the Iron Lung that day...), or for the brakes in your car to fail buying you months of peace in a full-body cast.

But wait. What's this? It's not a regular old baby shower after all. It's something quite fantastic! It's...

And that's where my ideas run out. I'm throwing my sister-in-law's babyshower--the last in a wallet-emptying, mind-numbingly long shower season. And I want people to look forward to coming.

So my question is, in such circumstances what kind of party would you STILL look forward to coming to?

These are some ideas off the top of my head:

80's Mothers (with costumes drawing inspiration from our mothers' 1980s Olan Mills family portraits...perms, giant sweaters)

Jazz Brunch (big hats, beignets, hip flasks)

Butler Husbands (we make all the men show up and do whatever we tell them...which is clearly a joke and never going to happen but still fun to think about...)

Give me some of YOUR suggestions...


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