There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

Virginia Kelley

 

Today the Accounts Payable unit hosted a baby shower for their man, Lance, and his new son, Lance. 

 

I asked my daughters with babies what to give him and they came through.  They suggested a Daddy Diaper Duty kit – with clothes/nose pin, goggles, rubber gloves, etc in either a (diaper) pail, tool belt or daddy apron.

 

I toned it down a little.  I bought rubber gloves and Joseph donated face / dust masks.  No goggles or clothes pin.  I found a blue laundry soap bucket and labeled it Daddy Diaper Duty.  Put in diapers, balm, and wipes with the gloves and masks amongst tissue. 

 

I dropped by the shower, put my gift at the gift table, oohed and ahhed at baby Lance – beautiful boy beautifully and peacefully asleep – grabbed some cookies and went back to work.

 

Several returning co-workers told me that my gift was the hit of the shower.  Lance put on a mask and wore it most of the time, not always on his face, but on his head and/or around his neck.  Anyway, they got a kick out of it.

 

Lance came, told me that he was "happily mad" at me and then he gave me a hug. 

 

Thanks, girls!