Forecast: Family
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When an expanded family is in the forecast, it means one thing for certain: a baby shower. Precipitation for the parents-to-be.

You’ve likely experienced an introductory initiation into the registering for riches realm. A ring goes on a finger and the wedding wish list begins. For me, the selections were china, crystal, silver and electronics -- while I reveled in making choices to symbolize our coupledom and communion, there was a guilt-inducing smidge of self-indulgence. All those opulent, high-dollar requests…just for our own little newlyweds-to-be abode.

Now that there’s an egg in our nest, so long subtlety, modesty and reservation. With no apologies, I now say go ahead; bring it all on for My Baby.

Extensive experience on the giving end of the baby shower gift equation provides testimony; the spirit in which you shop for petite presents is entirely its own…and rightfully irrepressible.

Showers are literally cleansing; they wash away the dulled patina of the past and purify for the era of growth ahead. Goodness falling from above. Life giving, refreshing -- a reminder of and provider for the cycle of life.

You may not be able to shower like this daily, but you can certainly soak in the lavished affections for a lifetime to come. As the little germinating babe comes into bloom, how ideal that he/she will be surrounded in a haven nourished and nurtured by caring gardeners.

The analogy now beaten to the status of an expired equine, it’s time for me to go out and sing umbrella-free in the rain. Showers are predicted.