An afternoon off!

I was at work this afternoon and one of my co-workers came back from lunch telling me how snowy and slick it was getting. She convinced my boss to tell me that I should go home for the afternoon. People sure worry about you falling a lot when you are huge and pregnant, like I am right now! I felt kind of bad leaving work when everyone else had to be there, but hey...when you boss tells you to go home--who am I to argue?

This is turing out to be a busy week for us. I went to the doctor yesterday and he tells me that the baby's head is down, so that's good news. I get to go every week from now until "I agree to have this baby" (as my doctor puts it). A Bible study group that I belong to put together a baby shower for Lauren and I last night. It was lots of fun and we got all sorts of nice gifts. I think Lauren got a picture of the two of us, so I'll have to post it when she passes it along to me. I have a work holiday lunch this week and a few other events to go to, also. Poor Ben will be catching up on sleep most of the week. He was on call last night at the hospital and was really busy. Unfortunately, that means he didn't get any time to rest. The doctor he is with this month kept him Monday morning until noon--which normally would have been fine, except that he had to go help teach an airway lab for anesthesia from 1:00 until 5:00. So, he didn't get any sleep from Saturday night until Monday evening sometime around 7:00. I have no idea how he was even functioning at that point, but he made it though and is back to work again today. He is such a hard worker and here I am at home enjoying an afternoon off...again, I am feeling kind of bad here--just not bad enough to go back to work :-)

And I guess I will leave you with a picture of our Christmas tree, as promised. We have our little apartment all decorated and I enjoy plugging in the tree each day as I get home.