Baby showers at work & not knowing

[bmccasland]

I work for Uncle Sam, so there's a concerted efforted to stick to the rules. But within our section, we have had baby showers for coworkers. We've either done a collection for a group gift or bought individual gifts. Seems monthly there are envelopes going around for something - funerals, retirements, someone in the hospital, baby showers. It's up to you to sign the card or donate or not. Sometimes I've been surprised on the routing slip for the cards (of course there's a routing slip, it's government!), but if I don't know the person, I cross my name off, and send it on it's way.

Not to be confusing. Within our immediate working group we've done showers, going away luncheons, birthday parties and such. Join or not, no one seems to get their noses out of joint. Our section is part of a department, and that's where some of the mystery person routing cards come from (funerals, retirements, illness).

[Tuckervill]

I agree with saving the gender of the baby until the birth! It kind of takes all the fun out of the birth for me, if I know what it is ahead of time. What are we waiting at the hospital to find out then? Its birth weight?? Who cares, as long as it's healthy and full-term! We don't usually get to see it on their birth day around here anyway.

That said, we do know that the baby in my DIL's womb is a boy, and it's CONVENIENT to know what color socks to knit. We know his name, too. But it would have been okay to wait.

Karen