Sugar or Spice?

Today I went for my gestational diabetes clinic. I was nervous to go but once I got there, I found it to be a great resource and a huge encouragement to me.
When I found out that I had gestational diabetes and I would have to monitor by blood sugar levels, I borrowed my cousins' monitor that she got from the health clinic when she had gestational diabetes. I have been monitoring for 3 weeks now and have kind of figured things out - I think - and going to this appointment just reassured me that yes, I am doing things correctly. One thing that I have realized, though, is that having Caleb with such a strict diet has prepared me tremendously for this phase in my life. I understand carbohydrates and fibre and sugar and how they all work together to change how my body processes sugar. Now that I have more information for myself, I can also now use it for helping Caleb and finding more options for him. I am finding that having gestational diabetes has been a huge blessing in my life.
That is a sentence that I thought I would never be saying, but it is true!!

Baby Number 3

Check out the new info added to October's post "Baby Number Three."

Carving Pu'kins

This year the kids were very excited to carve pumpkins. The pumpkins happened to be ones that we grew in our garden so that was a special treat. For some reason, Caleb has had a fascination with Carathy's little toy gun for the last few weeks and that night was no exception. He didn't let it out of his sight the whole evening. I wanted to take pictures of the kids with the pumpkins that they carved so when they were finished I asked them to pose with them. Carathy posed very nicely with hers and was excited to show it off. Caleb, on the other hand, when asked to pose and say 'cheese,' stuck the gun in the pumpkins' eye and grinned! I think if he had his way, carving pumpkins would be a whole lot messier!!

Carathy's finished masterpiece