Today was an interesting day at work to say the least. We all knew lay offs were coming, but I honestly never expected it to me. I've been at Ingram Micro for 8 1/2 years and had survived several waves of lay-offfs throughout the years. Surely, being 8 1/2 months pregnant and less than 3 weeks away from my maternity leave starting would keep me safe. WRONG! My entire team is being restructured and me and 2 other friends from my project management team were laid off - that was 1/2 of our team. The good news is I will still get my paid maternity leave and several weeks of severance and I'll be at work until my maternity leave starts on March 7. The bad news....I'll have no job to come back to after my maternity leave ends. But I know that everything happens for a reason and that God has a plan for me, so I am just trying to see all the positives I can with the current situation. Maybe this is a kick in the pants that I should be a full time at home mom. Time will determine what our next moves will be.
On a happier note...I am 6 weeks away from my due date and we are making great progress on Sydney's room! It's finally starting to look like a nursery. : ) I also have another baby shower on Saturday. Ironically I had my first shower at work just last Friday...what timing. Pam, Nickie and Noel are throwing the shower on Saturday and I can't wait. From what they have told me it should be a lot of fun. It's weird that a baby shower is actually for me. I've helped plan and put on so many baby showers that it's hard for me to sit back and not doing anything for my own shower!
-Melissa
