Memories of my Baby shower
Today, my cousin asked me the significance of having a Traditional Baby shower...as I was talking to her..memories of my "poochoottal, Poomsuvana Semanthonanyanam, Valaikaapu" came flooding in. The ausipicious day was fixed as 16th March 2011. My In laws and Parents were in full swing getting things ready for the event. What kept me engaged was shopping for myself..guess what I never did shopping for my wedding..only for my baby shower :-). Bangles, blouses, return gifts, hairdo kit..etc... I had almost memorized verbatim the significance of the function as mentioned in http://www.trsiyengar.com/id156.shtml We had the Sumangali Pooja on 13th march. MIL, Co-sister had prepared a traditional spread for 5 Sumangalis (Married women) + usual people in the household. I was just a helper around..We gifted a nice 9 Yards sari to one of the ladies. 2 amongst those were my aunts. I was seeing them after a very long time. So I got some saris for them too..(one of my aunts was c