Thanks

How blessed am I to work at a company who has not only a Thanksgiving program for the entire company, but one who also requests a Baptist minister to come speak unashamedly? 

This morning we had our annual Thanksgiving program.  The entire home office was brought to the cafeteria for an hour long program equipped with a invocation (by a very southern black lady), the Pledge of Allegiance, singing of God Bless America, a worship song done as special music, recognition of the Employee of the Year, and a quick speech by the President to announce that we would be receiving our annual Christmas Gift of $200 and our Annual Bonus to be determined by our annual reviews.  We also found out that we would be receiving the day after Christmas off as a company holiday as well.  The program was wrapped up with a message by my minister about Thanksgiving.  There is never any fear of calling upon the Lord in a prayer or fear that someone will be offended. Later today we will have a thanksgiving lunch completely on the company in our cafeteria. Having previously worked in an organization that played the politically correct game, this company is so refreshing and a delight to work for in that case. 

This week will prove to be a slow one.  We’ll work Monday – Wednesday.  Today was the Thanksgiving program and I’ll have my doctor’s appointment this afternoon.  Tuesday is a coworker’s retirement luncheon that we’ll all attend, and Wednesday I doubt will be a very focused day to top it off.  Most of the office working towards Annual Meeting which will be the first weekend of December.  I am not attending this year so all that I’m in charge of is working on the scripts for the general sessions.  I’m still working on the first general session with two more to come my way.  It’s a waiting game for me.

Joel went down to help his mom this weekend work a flea market so I stayed at home and nested.  I vacuumed, cleaned the bathroom, washed 4 loads of wash and folded each one, made peanut brittle, wrote thank you notes, cleaned the kitchen, posted 31 shoes on Ebay, and had my friends stop by to make sure they were on the up and up regarding taking care of my girls for this weekend.  Sunday afternoon we stopped by a friend’s house to see how they were doing a week out from having their baby.  We also took a short walk and went grocery shopping.  I washed baby clothes and put them away according to size and room available in the dresser while we watched a movie to close out our weekend.

I have two pediatrician appointments arranged for the first week in December and Joel and I will probably pre-register at the hospital around that same time as well.  We are going to try to get a tour of the L&D rooms while we are there as well.  I’ll probably call on that later today.  Sleeping is becoming more difficult as I’m finding my back is starting to bother me if I sleep on my side too much.  Not to mention the many trips to the bathroom and water breaks throughout the night.  I’m hoping the doctor will be able to distinguish her head and rear end to give me a better idea as to her positioning.  There is some comfort in knowing that she is head down already though I know that can change many times between now and birth day.

So.  That pretty much sums up the weekend for us.  It was busy and yet also very quiet which was greatly needed after the week we both had.  I’ll try to update everyone following my appointment this afternoon.