Slow and steady wins the race

So that is what we are now slow and steady. We are 33 wks. I can not believe we will have a little one before you know it. Our neighbor's son is now about 11 wks old and they told us time seems to stand still from hear on out. I don't know how it possibly could though. I have one more Becker class this Sat. and then I get a whole two weekends off. Then I go back for three more. Hopefully Emma stays in until I get through.

The 4th we are staying home and getting completely through with getting ready for our girl. We have a huge list of things to do. I did get one big task accomplished yesterday...cleaning out the baby's closet...it had become the storage closet.

I am more and more excited everyday about our daughter coming into this world. I cherish every night Char doesn't have to work and we can have some quiet bonding time together. I sing the ABC's, the number song, read a bit, then we finish it off with Char picking a category and I do the alphabet with it. So she picks countries or food and I do A is for apple and so on. So far X is for Xavier no matter what. LOL. I have got to research X and U. I can just see our daughter in kindergarten and some kid's name is Xavier and she makes fun of him for being named after some food named Xavier that came from the country Xavier. LOL

Anyways. I went to Orlando Wed thru Fri. I had and Intuit conference to go to there. It was pretty informative. I loved how they went into a panel discussion about the finding good staff and retaining them and some wanted to bash "the twenty somethings" OF WHICH I AM A PROUD MEMBER. I do see that I may be a minority in this group as there are few of us who will own their on three quarters of a million dollar firm by 27 but still if the rest of the world would give us a chance we'd all do alright. Their biggest complaint with "us" was that we "have no loyalty" to our jobs and will quit when something better comes along. Well, folks let me explain a little here. First of all a lot of that has to do with the company, don't get me wrong I know our society has changed and most people do not "marry" their jobs they "date" them. However, the sense of community has also changed. No longer are companies concerned with the well being of their employees but instead with the bottom line. My employer is great. He is 68 and retiring in 2 years at which time I will buy him out. In the mean time he is my boss. I respect him as a mentor, employer, elder, and human being. He care about his employees. The other day he called a meeting and announced that he would be giving everyone an extra check every month to help with gas prices. He reasoned that we get a raise every Feb. and since the gas prices rose the raise was eaten up and he wanted to help. He is a very fair man and seeks to make sure you FEEL as though you were treated fairly. No why would I or any of the employees here not stay? We are treat fair, we are given great time off, we are asked for our thoughts on things, and more importantly our thoughts are taken into consideration and valued. We are not just a number. I worked for a manufacturing company that offered severance packages to the older employees to get them out of the way because they were to expensive only to hire younger "cheaper" employees to take their place. NOW WHO IS NOT LOYAL?!

Well I could go on forever but really what good would it do.

On a better thought, we have our second of three baby classes tonight. I am so excited. I never thought this would finally be real but here we go.

Well we'll catch up later.