Exciting News

Margaret Morford

I thought all of you would want to know that Christy Reeder, the woman who keeps this web site functional and is always looking for answers to our questions, is expecting her first child!

Christy,

We expect you to be running the Forum right up until that last contraction and work from a lap top in your hospital room. No FMLA for you, despite what we say on the Forum. We don't know what we'd do without you! Congratulations!

Margaret Morford
theHRedge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]

sonny

What great news on the Eve of a dismal day.. Sure hope Christy knows you have now told the whole country!! Wonder if anyone has ever had a shower on line? (not on company time of course!)

System

Gawrsh, Margaret. x:-8 Thanks.

I have been reading technical manuals, Employment Law Letters, and Employers Forum posts to the baby (they say they can hear you even before they're born) so he or she will be ready to assist on the forum as soon as we recover from the birth. It's curious ... when I mention the name Don D, I get a little kick in my side. Hmmm... x;-)

Really, tho, some of the belly laughs I get when reading forum posts MUST be good for the baby.

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

ritaanz

Congratulations!! Here's wishing you a healthy, happy baby. xhugs When are you due?

System

You all are so sweet. x0:)

Thanks, ritaanz. I'm due March 21. About 13 weeks along right now, hoping to kick the morning sickness real soon, although I haven't had it nearly as bad as some people do!

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

ritaanz

Hey, maybe you will be a tad early and deliver the little bundle on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day. Perhaps we can get Don D to do the Irish jig in honor of the event? :DD

Don D

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 09-10-02 AT 04:35PM (CST)[/font][p]That boy knows a respectable name when he hears one! What happens when you mention Willie Nelson?...... p.s: She told me all she ever did was work on the forum and camp and hike and canoe. Something ain't right here! x}>

System

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 09-11-02 AT 12:01PM (CST)[/font][p]>That boy knows a respectable name when he hears one!

Hmmmmm, you said "that boy" ... we don't know the sex yet, but I'm leaning in that direction, too. Two more months 'til we find that out.

>p.s: She told me all she ever did was work on the forum and camp and hike and canoe. Something ain't right here!

Oh, if that were the extent of my job duties, something WOULD be right! Next week, life will be very good, though. My hubbie and I are headed to St. George Island, FL, for a week at a house right smack on the gulf beach, so you all will have to carry on the forum nicely without me. Cross your fingers that Hurricane Helga doesn't crash our party.

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

Margaret Morford

Christy,

Do you want some assistance from the Forum namimg the baby? If it's a boy, we could give him a very masculine name like Sparticus Thor Reeder. Or better yet, how about Henry Robert Reeder? His initials would be HR and because you are in the south, everyone could call him Hank Bob!

Margaret Morford
theHRedge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]

ritaanz

x:o Hank Bob? Margaret! How could you??

sonny

It's a southern thing. .

sonny

I am so jealous. . St. George Island and area is one of the BEST in our great state (great, except of course for our ability to run the polls) ENJOY..

Gillian

Congratulations!!

bsa

Oh I can sympathize with morning sickness... try dill pickles! Congrats and may it be healthy(I'm partial to girls.)

AnneLa

A new baby - How Wonderful! Hope that your pregnancy and delivery are "speedy".

Paul in Cannon Beach

I suggest the name "Sherman" and you could call him "Sherm". One day, when he was old enough, you could explain to him about SHRM and the fine society from which his name derives.

Paul

System

x:7

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

bamahr

Congratulations - I had my son in May (first baby). No one can ever explain how wonderful it is going to be. I often wonder what we did before he came along.

PS: I was released from the hospital on Thursday - did an unemployment hearing from home on the following Tuesday. Duty Called.

System

Here's an update - Don D's instincts were right (of course) - we found out it's a boy! So we'll have a little Coleman (aka Cole) Allen Reeder appearing on the scene in March sometime.

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor
[url]www.HRhero.com[/url]

ritaanz

Wonderful! Enjoy him.