All you ever wanted to know about Carbs...

That is what I learned this morning. I was nervous about the class that they send you to to learn about how to manage diabetes. I didn't know how comfortable I would be learning about this personal health matter with several other people in the room. It actually worked out well. I learned a lot and had all my questions answered. They gave us a meter and I called the doctor for my Rx for the test strips and lancets. When we tested in the class, my after breakfast blood sugar was good, so keep praying for me. If I can control my glucose with diet, then I won't have to take insulin and little Ashlyn will be just as nice and comfy in her little home as if I didn't have Gestational Diabetes at all. I will start exercising (walking) to help control the sugar levels too. Did you know that walking just 10 minutes can lower your blood sugar by 50 POINTS! Let me just tell y'all from someone who just learned a whole bunch about glucose levels....that is ALOT! My Granddaddy walks religiously and has for as long as I've known him. He has the right idea! I will be following in his footsteps. I have learned so much from my grandparents and they are so special to me. I am SO VERY blessed to have gotten to know them so well over the years! They have passed down knowledge and wisdom that I could never have gotten anywhere else and I am so grateful that they cared enough to spend time teaching me. And don't get me started on where in the world I would/could possibly be without their prayers. I've said often that I think my Granny has a direct line to God's ear. She is a prayer warrior like none other! Thanks Granny and Granddad for always being there! You Rock!

So far behind...

I'm so far behind or at least that is the way it feels!!! So why I am spending my time blogging???....because I needed a break. I don't have Facebook anymore so I am getting much more done, but there is just so much to do! I know Mom..."One thing at a time". I can hear her voice in my head. I seriously wish I could mail her all my papers and let her organize and file them and then send them back. She is so dadgum organized! In the meantime, I'm going to keep updating my list. It seems like every time I check one box off, I add two more. Aaaggghhh! How am I going to do all this and take care of a child???? My house is going to be even more of a wreck, isn't it?!?! :( It will be worth it to hear the little pitter patter of feet running across the room. :)

Support People

I just want to say a big "THANK YOU" to all my support people. I know not all of them read this blog, but it's the thought that counts, right?!?! The last year has been a crazy roller coaster ride of emotions and anxiety for me. My faithful friends and family have been there every step of the way to listen to me whine and scream and cry mountains of tears. I can't imagine my life without you guys in it. You talk me down when I'm crazy! I thank God every day for you all and pray that He pours amazing things out on your lives!

Joseph

Yet another devotion today where the point was great...but not the only thing I got out of it.
I finished my 3-hour Glucose Test this morning and I failed it. This means I have Gestational Diabetes and will have to monitor my sugar levels for the rest of the pregnancy. Hopefully I can manage the levels with diet and won't have to worry with having to take insulin. At first I wasn't upset at all, but as the day has progressed, my anxiety has gotten worse and worse. Then I finally had a minute to read my daily devotion. Today's lesson was on Joseph...and forgiveness. It really cracks me up that as I read a very good devotion, God is speaking other, completely unrelated truths to my heart. The truth today....look at what an amazing life Joseph ended up having. His brothers sold him into slavery and he suffered much, but God raised him up and made him a very powerful man. God gave him a land and a family to love and enjoy. Whatever happens in the next twelve weeks, I know God loves me and He loves Ashlyn and He will be watching over whatever happens. I am not in control, but He is. He will never lose that control. Sometimes bad things happen, but God will use them somehow...whether it is to guide you to a specific place or that that experience is necessary to teach you something important for later on.

Nursery Progress and 1-hour test

We've made a lot of progress on the nursery this week. I am waiting on Mary to help me do the stripes on the border and hang Ashlyn's name and bible verse up. If you can't read the writing for the wall, the top part is her name. The bottom portion says, "Every good and perfect gift is from above...James 1:17". I pray that as soon as she can understand, that she will understand how precious a gift she is to us and that we thank God every day for her.

On another note, I'm writing this blog as I wait for the first hour of my 3-hour test. That's right, I didn't pass the one hour. I had a 154 or something and you are supposed to have under 135. My first test this morning was pretty close, so we will see how it goes over the next couple hours. If I do have Gestational Diabetes, a lot of things will probably change and I don't just mean my diet. I become a little more high risk, but maybe I won't have to worry about that. I still have two more hours until I find out. I'm ready for lunch! :) They ask you to fast after midnight of the night before. 12 hours with no food is really asking a lot of a pregnant girl!

Facebook-less

I'm now Facebook-less! For a while anyway. I spent way too much time on that dumb website and I have way too much to do, so for a while, I've taken the temptation to procrastinate away. I'm still going to update on my blog. My blog is sort of a scrapbook for me. I write what I want to remember. I already find myself looking back on prior posts and reminiscing.
On another updating/writing note...David and I went to Books-a-Million on Friday and I got a baby memory book. My Mom was so good about filling mine and my sisters out and we have really appreciated it, so I got one for Ashlyn. There was also another special thing my Mom did for me and my sister. She kept a handwritten journal for each of us. I don't know if she knows, but after I read the journal, I decided to keep it updated. I only end up writing in it every year or so, but it is a very special book to me. David and I picked out Ashlyn's journal together. I think I am going to suggest he write Daddy notes to her every once in a while. We'll see what he thinks.
We got lots of painting done on the nursery this weekend. I started priming a little bookshelf that I forgot we had until I opened the closet on the patio outside and yelled "Bingo". It is perfect for a little bare spot we had in the nursery and will give us somewhere to put some toys for Ashlyn. Tom decided to help dry the paint on the bookshelf and now has a white streak all the way from his shoulder to the tip of his tail. It was pretty funny! He looks like a lop-sided Pepe-le-pew.
We attended our "CPR and Safety for Infants" class Sunday. I was very glad for the refresher. It's hard to believe it has been so long since I helped my Mom while she was teaching those kind of classes. I hope I never have to use any of what I know.
This afternoon I have a doctor's appointment. They are doing the first sugar test, so please pray that I pass with flying colors. I really don't want to have to deal with Gestational Diabetes. Well, I guess that is all for now.

Love

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:16-17a

Wow...is all the commentary I have on this one.