Updates

I've not had the ambition to be crafty lately, so I'll just post some of what we have done.

Last Sunday this snowman was built. I'm rather ashamed of the tiny guy - that's not what an Iowa girl thinks of when we say snowman. But the kids were just happy to have enough snow for one afternoon to make a creation. To the great sorrow of those children, one little girl who cried, he melted completely gone the very next day.

My husband did take a day off work to just play hookie in the beautiful weather we've had lately. It was sunny and 60 degrees, so we went to the park. Funny the difference one week makes here in the south - these pictures are less than ten days apart, The snowman and the park day.

I'll be spending my Saturday morning this weekend at the lab for bloodwork. I really bombed the one hour gestational diabetes test this week. You're allowed to score 140 - I scored 160. Three hours of bloodtests to be done to see if I have full blown diabetes. I've done this twice before and not had trouble, but this is the worst I've ever blown the one hour test.

I also had a weird episode of high blood pressure. I've Never Never had high blood pressure before, but one afternoon this week, I was laying down for a nap and all of the sudden my face became hot an swollen and I felt like my brain was going to implode. I am only a few blocks away from the doc's office, so I stopped up there to see what she thought of my condition. I was 160/90~!! She made me lay on my left side and I was quickly back down to 100/50 ~~ which is my normal range. I stayed in bed for the remainder of that evening, and have been feeling ok since. Just rather scary - and sure hope not to be on bed rest for a month!!