Here's a quick post for those of you who may not have seen Katherine in a little while :-)
Isn't she absolutely beautiful!!!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Health Update
Well most of you are pretty up to date but here's some info on my growing belly.
I must say that so far, I've had a very good pregnancy. My first trimester was tough only because I was exhausted all the time. I would make breakfast and have to take a nap afterward. I was told that after the first trimester was over, it would be smooth sailing. So far that has been the hardest part of all. I've been lucky enough that there has been no vomiting and barely any nausea.
I've been gaining weight at a steady rate. I am 179lbs. Yes. You read that right. I'm one point smaller than I should be.
After my first slew of blood tests, I found out that all was normal except that my iron levels were a little below normal. This was no surprise to me, I expected her to say that, since I've been anemic in the past. So aside from my prenatal vitamin, I'm also taking an iron pill every day. No biggie :) If my iron levels do not increase by the next blood test, then she'll have to increase my dose.
Now that I'm approaching my third trimester, I'm feeling a lot bigger and a little helpless when I try to get up after lying on the couch. It's a little like being a turtle on its back. :)
I have to keep in mind that I can't run around and push myself like usual, or my back and stomach starts to hurt. I'm finally able to accept my limits, and let people do things for me. It's nice!
Yesterday, I had my Gestational Diabetes Mellitus test. I think that's what it's called in English. Everything has been in french so I've been getting used to that terminology.
I got to the clinic at 6:55 am with my lovely urine sample in hand, only to find out it was useless because I had peed at 5:30 am and it wasn't "fresh" enough. So I had to wait to pee again.
Meanwhile, I had to drink an orange glucose tolerance drink, called Trutol 50, which tasted exactly like Orange Crush. I had to down 50g of the bubbly dextrose drink in less than five minutes. Piece of cake. Then I had to wait one hour before my blood test.
55 minutes later...
Everyone in the waiting room stinks, and I feel like throwing up. :-(
Since I've been preggers, I've had the nose of a bloodhound. So I could smell the lingering aroma of stale cigarettes, perfume, and powdered makeup. The Orange Crush was so heavy in my empty stomach. I needed fresh air in a big way! Thank goodness that I was up next. The nurse only took one vile of blood this time around (instead of the seven like last time). I was disappointed to find out that I could've had water while I waited! That would've really helped!!!
Once I got outside, I felt great again!
I find out if I'm diabetic next time I visit. I'll keep you all posted!
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Why: Salt In My Coffee???
Since almost all of you have asked us why we decided to title our blog: Salt In My Coffee, we've decided to let you all know at the same time (in order to avoid jealousy). Thank you all for asking by the way!
Ok then, here's the story behind the title of our blog:
Above, are all of your confused faces. Nobody actually asked us why we named our blog the way we did, but hopefully for 10 seconds or so, you felt bad for not asking because you thought that everyone else had! :-)
Has anyone met Katherine? As you might know, she can sometimes enjoy pulling a prank!! Anyway, while we were in England Katherine made me a nice cup of coffee.... Funny enough, it had been made with salt instead of what most of us use: SUGAR! I spent the rest of the trip doing the same thing to her...
One time, my mom even looked at me like I was a nut for it!!!
Then (again) while we were in England, we decided that we should start a blog together instead of continuing our own separate ones... After all, our lives are together, why isn't our blog right? So, we pondered over names for several seconds and we decided with: Salt In My Coffee. It really describes what goes on in our lives on a daily basis. It might not always necessarily be salt in my coffee, but it could be anything that makes us laugh, or that keeps us on our toes. Who knows if someone might break into the bathroom while the other is taking a shower, in order to throw cold water onto their unsuspecting heads (Katherine started that one too)!
We love laughing and are anxiously waiting for our son, so that we can laugh along with him. Maybe we'll change the blog name to: Salt In My Breast Milk!.... No, we wouldn't do that.
Happy Valentines Day My Love!!!
Just want to take this opportunity to tell you that; I love you Katherine! My heart burns for you!
Happy Valentines Day!
I hope everyone had a great V-Day! Rich and I spent our evening snuggled up on the couch after and awesome BBQ supper, of jerk chicken and spicy veggies. Yep a BBQ! The weather was mild enough to have one, I shoveled the ice and snow off of the deck a few days ago, while I was on poop detail.
We rented a few movies after we did groceries, and managed to watch one (Crash) before falling asleep. It was great!
I spent the last two days in the West Island at my parents. I went to visit Amy on Thurs evening. It was nice to see her after such a long time. She's still teaching and loving and hating it at once. The typical teacher experience!
I picked her up, and we headed to Panier to poke around with my Christmas gift certificate in hand. I wanted to see if there were any new spices that Rich would like, since the store has such a great variety. I found one from "Dave's Gourmet" www.davesgourmet.com . We really like all of the products from that line of spice, and haven't gone wrong yet. I found him one called Scotch Bonnet, which is supposed to be pretty hot. We'll see...He's got a much higher tolerance for spice than I do. I also picked up two really cute scented candles, from Yankee of course! :)
We went out for a drink (Perrier for me of course!) and caught up some more.
I headed back to my parents who were watching Maya, and had a late supper with Mom, then headed to bed.
I spent Friday with my brother and then decided to spend another night because I didn't want to drive all the way back in the dark etc...So Mom spoiled us again with Pizza and took me to see Coraline. I loved it! It was in 3D. I've been looking forward to seeing it for awhile.
It was a whopping $30.00 to see because you had to pay for the glasses as well.
It was well worth it. I won't ruin it for those who want see it but the animation was stunning, and the music was enough to put you to sleep (in a good way). As usual I did fall asleep for about 20 mins! It's almost impossible for me to stay awake in a theater. It's too relaxing! Last time I fell asleep, it was between Richard's brothers, Dan and Adam, on Boxing Day. I was later informed by them that I was even snoring. That wasn't embarrassing AT ALL!
The following morning, I made the family a Valentine breakfast. It was fun to make a regular breakfast and to use the nice dishes :) Hearts on the table, and strawberries in little champagne glasses! It really dressed it up.
Thanks again to Mom for really spoiling me! Thank you so much!
xox
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