Word of the Day

In case anyone else writes newsletters/mailings for their job, I want to share a word I commonly misspell.

Rapport (pronouced "ra-poor"). Commonly misspelled as repoire, rapoire, etc.

Sample sentence: Because Ashley has a good rapport with her boss, she gets to have flexible working hours and can sometimes work from home.

Ashley is moving!

Due to Ashley's boss retiring from American Family at the end of March, Ashley will be moving from a 3-room office to the newly-constructed American Family corporate building in Waukesha.

Some benefits of the move:

* Ashley will be working independently until a new district manager is hired

* The building is approx. 5 minutes from our house (compared to her 20 minute drive to Wauwatosa)

* Ashley will be working with more updated technology

* Ashley will have more people around her...including the marketing specialist, Becky Wolniakowski, who is 27 weeks pregnant! (FYI, Ashley is 26 weeks along)

* Ashley will be (literally) across the street from her doctor

It's Melting!

Finally--the snow is melting and Bryan and I are seeing more and more brown grass. Don't get me wrong - we still have snow on our back patio. However... there is a green sprout coming up near our house!

24 weeks

Ashley had her monthly visit with Dr. Martinelli. Everything is proceeding as normal, but Ashley was quite shocked to hear that she gained 10 pounds over the last 4 weeks! Fortunately, this is a good weight gain since she's only gained 18 total pounds and the pregnancy is more than halfway through.

The baby's heartbeat is still coming in strong at 142.