A Sweet Update

The nurse called back today with an update about my last glucose test and our plan from here on out. She said that after speaking with Dr. Bain, they have decided to refer me to some counseling for gestational diabetes. Someone from the hospital should be contacting me within the next couple days with more information about these classes, but for now all I know is that it is an educational program about gestational diabetes that includes information about testing the sugar levels in your blood and about a good diet plan.

In the meantime, I am kind of at a loss for what to do now. I have been eating better and watching my sugar intake. When my sugar gets low, I go ahead and eat candy and a soda to bring it back up so I don't pass out. The nurse didn't really have any advise for what to do should I feel week and shaky; she just said to go to these classes.

I asked why a spike in my sugar would happen, knowing that no one in my family has diabetes that I know of and that most of my family, including myself, have low blood sugar issues. Nurse Kim advised that sometimes this just happens about this time in a pregnancy.

I am hoping that these classes provide a lot more information for me. In the meantime, I guess we'll keep on truckin' and just keep an eye out of any sugar oddities.

Our Christmas Tree

I am so proud of our little Christmas Tree!

Last year, we had a big and little tree for home. I just love Christmas decorations, so we went all out! This year, I only planned to put up our little tree. We took our big tree to Good Will last year since we have a lack of storage area. Being pregnant and having a large puppy inside, we decided the little tree would suffice. We are also working on our addition and some other remodeling to the house, so a big tree would be in the way.

Well, I was unpacking decorations earlier this week and I could not find the little tree. I have the lights and the tree skirt, but no tree and no ornaments. :( So every time I was out shopping, I kept an eye out for tiny trees. On Saturday at Lowe's, Dean and I found this little tree. It is tiny, but it is actually a live tree! This is the first live Christmas tree I ever remember having. It fits perfectly on top of our entertainment center.

The New Mommy and New Daddy mugs were one of the first presents I received when I found out I was pregnant (Thanks!). I thought I'd leave them out until the little tree is surrounded by wrapped presents.

I am excited to continue shopping and decorating this year! I am trying not to buy too much for Waverly, since her first Christmas is quite a ways off. It's tempting, though!

Black Friday

My aunt and I go shopping on Black Friday every year, for the past 5-6 years at least! Usually, we have a couple of girls with us, but this year we were on our own (we missed you Rachel and Sheila!). We had a great time finding our bargains and chit-chatting away all day.

Well, we began our morning super early - at 4:00 AM! We made it to Wal-Mart by 5:00 and joined the pandemonium within. It was so busy, we had to park at the nail salon across the street to get a parking spot. I made a bee-line for the special items on my list - feather pillows! I did miss out on the Pyrex dish set, but I think besides that we got everything we wanted.

After the big Wal-Mart adventure, we went to Wallgreens, K-Mart and Starbucks. Then, off to Hamburg! We parked at 7:25 AM, both of us proud of our time. Get in, get in line and get out was our motto! We hit up Bath and Body Works, Target, Kohl's and Gordmans. After looking around Kohl's for a few minutes, I took a little break. Other than that, I held up reasonably well for being 27 weeks pregnant!

For lunch, we went to my mom's. For the first time in a few years, the family was getting together for Thanksgiving. Mom had cooked, and we just all love mom's food! She even made mini pecan pies! Unfortunately, everyone arrived at different times during the day. So we only got to see mom. We did visit with Gary and meet his kids as well. We missed seeing all the family.

After a few more shopping stops, we headed for home! I was fairly tired and my aunt had another Thanksgiving dinner to get to. After a nap for me, I put away my purchases, wrapped some presents and began Christmas decorating.

This is a teddy bear that we found for Waverly during our Black Friday outings. It's a time out bear! The timer isn't working properly, but Dean thinks he can fix it. I don't think we'll need it though, I don't expect her to be in Time-Out very often!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It's been a great holiday for us so far. This morning I went to my dad's house. It was great to see everyone. My Step-mom Betty had went all out with the Thanksgiving fixings, and my aunt and uncle supplied two turkeys to feed us all! Little Tanner has colic, so he was a bit fussy. Unfortunately, Dean didn't get time to visit this time. He was working with his dad on our addition to the house. The annual Burriss Christmas Tree decorating party is set for this Friday, so Dean will have to be there for that!

Thanksgiving night we spent with Dean's parents. I got there in time to help mom peel potatoes and butter the rolls! Thanksgiving supper was excellent, especially my favorite, fried sweet potatoes! Dean's brother and sister and her kids were there to visit. We missed my sister-in-law Marie; she had to work so we sent her a plate. We had a nice time though.

All in all, it's been really nice. All the food and visiting has rocked this baby to sleep today! She hasn't moved very much, but I don't blame her for resting today!

Tonight I'm staying over at my aunt's house. We have to be up early for Black Friday shopping!

We hope everyone enjoyed their holidays!

Bad news from the sugar fairy...

Nurse Kim called this morning to let me know that I failed the one-hour glucose test - again! I can't believe it! I did not have any breakfast this go-round, which probably caused the poor results. My sugar was 27 points too high. This is really amazing to me because my sugar is usually so low. What we think happened is that drinking the orange syrup on an empty stomach made the sugar levels shoot up, instead of giving an accurate description of how my body handles sugar.

So, Nurse Kim said that I will have to take another 3-hour glucose test, which I should have taken in the first place but the other nurse put the wrong order through. I was pretty upset, seeing as how the last test was so hard. I just can't look forward to 3-hours of needles and not feeling well. Kim said that she would confer with Dr. Bain about what other options there are and call me back next week.

In the meantime, it's watch out for sugar and carbs. Not good news, so close to the holiday. But, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone else!