Since my last post, we have been thrown work showers! First, I will start out with mine. It was a total surprise to me. Because it was a surprise, it was pretty
funny. One afternoon, I was making
copies. When I went to go turn those
copies in to someone else, the office was empty. Literally NO ONE was at their desk. I started walking around the office wondering
where the heck everyone took off too.
Did I miss a meeting? It was a
Friday… did they tell us we could leave early and I missed the email? After a couple mins, I ran into my manager
and I asked where everyone was… he said he didn’t know but needed me to look at
something in the file room. Right before
getting to the file room, he opened a conference room door and SURPRISE!! The entire office was in there and it was all
decorated in pink. J It was so sweet! We all got to eat delicious cookies and cake
made by one of my co-workers and mingle for a while. Then… we all got to go home early! What a gift!
Woo hoo!! 2 of my co-workers made
an adorable diaper cake FULL of amazing gifts for Aria from the office
staff. It was seriously so great.
Last Thursday, Christian’s job had their shower for us. They (the learning and development team) invited me to join them and I was more than happy to. Since, this was my first time at his job, I got there and immediately was given the tour of their office space. They get an entire floor to themselves! We ended up in a decorated conference room space and Christian’s team was waiting for us. So, this group does training and development for a living. Meaning… they facilitate meetings almost every day and know how to make one flow flawlessly from start to finish. That being said, this shower was NO exception. They catered in some food so we started by eating fajitas and playing a game of mad libs as sort of the “ice breaker”. After eating, we broke off into teams for a Nursery Rhyme game. Both Christian and I were made team captains. We picked our teams and headed to the back of the room where we had flip charts waiting for us. I had never played the game before and it was really fun. We had to write the next line of a nursery rhyme that was read to us or shown to us on a projector screen. A lot harder than you would think. Following this game, we went right into another. His team paired up into teams of 2 and only using one hand each, they had to put a cloth diaper onto a stuffed animal within a set time (Christian and I got to judge). The timer was of course on a projector ready to go. Once we finished that game, we enjoyed cupcakes and chocolates. We talked and had lots of laughs. We closed the shower by opening gifts. This was seriously one of the cutest and most organized showers ever. This group is a group of talented individuals that clearly love what they do and would never plan something halfway. I absolutely loved it and appreciate the time and thought and planning they took to put into it.
As you can tell by the title of the post, we are also now “Hospital
Ready”. Because I am only a month away,
it was time to get my hospital bag ready to go.
Pinterest has honestly been a big help for this. I read tons of posts on what is important to
take and what really isn’t necessary. I
am usually an over-packer so I am sure I still packed too much, but I really
tried not to. In my bag I have all of my
needs as well as clothes, snacks and toiletries for Christian. Can’t forget that dad is also gearing up for
a hospital stay right? I won’t be able
to eat during labor, but that certainly doesn’t mean I expect him to suffer as
well. Lol. We got him plenty of things
to snack on and even remembered change for vending machine drinks. J Yeah… remember I told you I am a little
organization freak? It’s coming out
during this process a lot. Haha! I also
have a mini bag ready to go for a work emergency. I doubt I will need it, but it’s better to be
safe. That bag is more like copies of
insurance info and a change of clothes in the event that the emergency is my
water broke. The only bag I now need to
get ready is a little one for Axel. That
should be done within the next few days.
In addition to my hospital bags, I decided that I wanted to
make thank you gifts for the nurse and hospital staff that will be helping
us. If you are familiar and have ever
heard about “love languages”, you will understand when I say that my love
language is ‘Acts of Service’. I love
serving others and showing others that I appreciate them. I can’t tell you how much fun I have creating
little crafty things for other people to let them know I was thinking of
them. I in no way am trying to show off
or one up anyone by doing these type of things… I just truly enjoy it! Axel has learned this from me and loves to
help me with these little projects. So,
I went on Pinterest to look up ideas on hospital thank you gifts. I found a blog a lady had posted that showed
little bags full of treats and it even had a free printable label. SOLD!
I give this brilliant lady 100% of the credit. If you want a link to her blog post, I am
happy to send it to you. Anyway, I printed
the labels, bought chap stick, candy, hand sanitizer, gum and pens to make the
bags. Axel jumped on board immediately
to help and here are the finished products.
We can’t wait to hand these out to all the nurses that will be helping
us at the hospital.
Starting this week, I go to the Dr weekly. I can’t believe in just a month she is due to
arrive. I have people telling me that
she will be early and some saying that she will be late. I don’t know when she plans on making her
arrival but I at least know I need her to bake a couple more weeks so I can
finish up her room. I FINALLY got the
inspiration needed. My mother-in-law,
Patty, gave me brilliant advice last week.
She told me to just hang something up… anything and it might spark
something to keep me going. I did just
that. We put up a corner shelf and got
some things on it and BAM… I was like… ‘ok, I just need to hang this over
there, put this here, change this around and buy a few things.’ Just like that, my plan was put in
place. I should have her room ready to
go soon. I am going to go very simple
but pretty. Once I get that done, I will
start to post pictures for you to see.
Until then, here is a little video of the little gymnast (I believe you have to be on a computer to view it. Doesn't work on phone). She moves a lot and it’s always so funny to
see my belly moving on its own.
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