Diet Status

So now I am halfway through my 10 days...Thursday is the glucose tolerance test (the 3-hour long one). It is pretty discouraging to know that whether I pass or fail, I pretty much have to follow the diet regardless. This is the time I'm supposed to be able to eat whatever I want!

Anyway, I have managed to maintain sanity in large part due to my fabulous husband... whose almost immediate response to my tears regarding being assigned this diet was "I'll do it with you." And after I protested, he said, "I've been praying for motivation to be healthier, and well... I'm sorry if this is the way it had to happen." So he has been a lifesaver so far... praising my healthy meals, eating SALAD regularly (if you know him well, your jaw is dropping about now!) getting me out on walks, and encouraging me through it all. Praise God for my helpmate!

So far, after about 4 days of following this diet and exercising regularly, Andy has lost almost 12 pounds! Take that, Biggest Loser contestants!

So everyone, as you enjoy your desserts and candy tonight, make sure you are REALLY savoring it for me!

Diets-yuck

Well, I failed my glucose screening. I even fasted beforehand, but got the bad news anyway. So I get to be on a diet.

I am definitely wavering between "this is great, I'm forced to eat healthy!" and "but it's not fair... I don't have time to think this much about food."

But I'll survive.... I think!

I'm on a roll...

Okay, I have more to say!

I just wanted to bring everyone up to date on my after-baby work situation, because prayers are still appreciated... I will work full time up to her birth, and then be off for 3 months. I will go back part time (2-3 days a week instead of my usual 4) using family leave, so I won't technically be due back full time until around August.

I put in a proposal for me to go part time (still working at the crack of dawn!) permanently. My supervisor and manager are great with this, so it will be presented to our director at the beginning of October. We're not sure how much farther up the chain this has to go, so I have no idea when I will know more!

If I could please ask for prayers here...Please pray for my patience in this- I am doing fine now, but I would love to have an answer before she is born. And if this avenue isn't God's will, please pray that I can realize that and obey and learn to be content with whatever the correct route is...

Thanks all!

Next Topic

Less than 3 months until we meet our baby! Andy is SO excited and anxious to meet her (often asking, "can we have her NOW?"), but as of now, I can be patient. Having lunch with my grandma the other day, she told me Dad arrived two and a half months early. AUGH! Crazy. I'm not ready yet!

For now, I am just enjoying the miracle inside me, loving as our little dancing queen rolls and kicks and dances around. I am loving the times that her daddy talks to her (one of the last things he told her is that she is going to LOVE football... and of course the Packers!)...

So often when I feel her kicking around, I ponder how ANYONE can go through this experience (mommies and daddies, but also doctors, nurses...) and not shake their heads with wonder and fall down on their knees with thankfulness at the fact that we have a CREATOR that makes this all possible, who allows us to be part of this miraculous process of bringing life into the world. And He loves us so much...

But I think you all know that already. :)

I blinked and a month went by...

Just as I feared... I am not good at this blogging thing! I had made a commitment to myself that if I did blog, that I would go no more than a week or two in between... and I'm almost to a month now. Time has been flying by! Plus I'm a procrastinator sometimes, let's be honest.

When I am at home, I will add some pictures and update everyone on what we've been up to. Or so I say. :)