Today I am over this

Currently I am tired of being pregnant. Mostly because I am just plain tired. In a few days I will hit the 8 month mark, and let me tell you...this is no picnic in the park.

Don't get me wrong, I love being pregnant. Most of the time. I thoroughly enjoy feeling her move around in there. And it's nice not to have to get up in the middle of the night to a crying baby. We still have some freedom to do whatever we want to do. And it's nice not having to change stinky diapers yet.

But I am just getting so uncomfortable. I literally got zero hours of sleep last night. Hence the reason I am up at 4 in the morning writing this. What else is there to do?!
This giant basketball growing under my shirt does not make it easy to get comfortable.
And the heat!! It's like someone turned up my internal thermometer, and I am constantly on fire. It's so weird to me, because I am typically a very cold person.
And the swelling! Who knew I would swell up like a balloon?! I suppose other woman who have swelled up like balloons. But did they bother telling me?! No they did not. I can no longer wear my wedding rings. So I have a makeshift ring on until...I unswell..

Also, Jaelyn is in the head-down position. She is putting extra pressure on my poor little bladder, which makes me have to potty EVEN MORE now! I literally get up at least 4 times a night to use the bathroom. And that's without drinking anything before I go to bed.

So yes, today I am over this whole being pregnant thing. I want to meet my baby girl, and hold her and cuddle her. I love her so much already! And I want to love her OUTSIDE of my uterus :-)

Kony 2012

There are some things that we see that we just cannot ignore. For me, this is one of them.

I remember being told in college that we have a limited capacity for compassion. We cannot be moved by everything. We cannot care about everything. If we did, we would live our lives in constant turmoil.

But each of us can be passionate and have compassion for something. And I choose this.

This 30 minute video gripped my heart, and it won't let go. I cried throughout this film. Maybe a little to do with hormones, but I'm guessing mostly to do with the horrors that children are facing.

 We have to stop Joseph Kony!

Please watch this video. And be impacted. And then take a stand with me.

Click this link to go to the website: Kony2012

Gestational Diabetes

Nobody likes to be told that something could be wrong with them. And so, when I went to the doctor after drinking that nasty glucose drink, and the nurse told me I might possibly be at risk for gestational diabetes, I was terribly worried.

Now I have heard many women say that they failed the first test, only to pass the second one. But that didn't ease my mind. And it certainly didn't help matters that Phil continued to joke about me being "diabetic", and tried to monitor my food intake.

And so, for three days I worried that I would have to start taking insulin, that my baby would come out giant, and that I would have to deliver her early (that part wouldn't be so bad!).

Yesterday I went to the lab for my 4 hours of blood draws. Both of my arms make me appear to be a junky. It was not a fun time. Strange people come to the lab!

After that long and boring experience, I treated myself to salad and bread sticks at Olive Garden with some friends.

A few hours later the nurse called me, and gave me some surprisingly great news! She said that I passed all four of the tests, which is amazing because most people fail at least one of them. Turns out, it was really kind of bogus for me to have had to get the long test done. My original number was just off by one point. One point!

She told me to "just keep doing what you're doing. You're doing great!"

So there Phil!! No more jokes about this "diabetic"!