Ettiquette and what occasions

We got sooo many presents after Brooke's birth.  Many of the gifts came from out of town.  I felt it was only good manners to send a thank you note - and it gave me an excuse to tuck in a photo of Brooke at the same time. 

Well I found half of our thank you cards for our wedding tucked away in a cupboard with the list for who was still to be written... Whoops!

I have all the bits for making the thank you cards for pressie for Jake but am yet to finish them.

I dont think they are necessary if you have expressed your thanks already, but if they are from out of town then a card is a nce acknowledgement.

I'm learning to. It took me about six months to get the wedding ones out, but since then I've become kind of crafty & really like making them

Didn't bother with baby ones, there would have been so damn many! I was a PT to heaps of clucky women & Grandmothers lol, we are part of an amazing church and we have such wonderful family and friends, I'd have had to right so damn many, all while dealing with a colicy newborn. No thanks - and I think people understand that too. We made sure each 'group of people' were thanked in some form, but not by individual hand written cards.

I normally try and give them to other people to help their special occasions, eg when someone has a baby/gets a new job/finds out they are pregnant/birthday/Christmas/Wedding.

I think it's important moreso now then I did three years ago, but then I'm only 23! I do like the idea in theory, I love getting them myself, and I do intend to start making more of an effort, except for when I have given birth :D

I am in the process of doing my thank you cards for the wedding and am planning to start making the ones for baby after I have finished.   At the minimum I would send an email (not a text) to say thank you for presents...but then we live far from family so can't say thanks to their faces!

On a side note...what about sending cards in general...I feel a bit ripped off that one of my closest friends who lives in England and couldn't come to the wedding didn't even send a card and seemed to think a brief email was sufficient congatulations. I'm sorry but I think that is rude....if it had been me I would have sent a card AND a present. I would have been happy with a card but not even that. Which reminds me that I sent her a present for her new baby and have had NO thank you, not even by email. Maybe she is just RUDE!!

Oh and I love getting cards and when we were born mum stuck all the cards into albums for us and I LOVED looking through them. I am gonna do the same with our kids. Oh yes I also felt ripped off when we got engaged that people didn't send cards since we lived so far away (ie in Kalgoorlie WA) and it would have been nice to have had the feeling of ...I dunno just that people made the effort to congratulate us...to me posting a message on facebook doesn't cut it! Not for special occasions anyway!