Here is my To Do List for today.  It’s late, but I have the house to myself right now, so I’m gonna do my best.  Here I go.

Yikes!  Things have been a little crazy here lately.  The Steinbach Humane Society is being caught up in a major investigation.  We’ve been interviewed by CJOB radio, CBC news and the National Post so far.  The story we’re being interviewed about is that our local Animal Control Officer has lately admitted to shooting the dogs the dogs that come to him and are not laimed.  Here is the statment we will be releasing to the press from now on. 

“In response to the latest news story about the dog shootings in Steinbach by our local Animal Control Officer, the Steinbach Humane Society does not believe that gunshots are an appropriate method of euthanizing dogs. Nevertheless, we understand in certain cases this method is needed, as in the case of injured, rabid and generally dangerous wildlife or dogs. We believe that in those cases euthanasia should be performed by a trained professional.The Steinbach Humane Society believes in working together in cooperation with the City of Steinbach and was not involved in initiating this issue in the Winnipeg media. We prefer collaboration to confrontation and do not agree with those who have issued statements that are harshly critical of the City of Steinbach and its Animal Control Officer.

We have been doing our best for the last year to gain a contract with the City of Steinbach so that we can join our existing Animal Control Officer in order to make sure that the animals get the best treatment and a chance to get adopted by loving forever homes or reunited with their owners if the animals have been lost. We would make sure that the pets get vet health checked, vaccinated (including rabies), dewormed and tattooed by a licenced veterinarian before putting them into foster care and finding them loving forever homes. If an animal has to be euthanized we would have it performed by a licenced Veterinarian in compliance with the Steinbach animal bylaws. It’s a slow process, but we’re not giving up.  The city needs us and we need the city.”

We’ve decided to release a statment instead ofdoing interviews so that we don’t give emotional answers.  We want to let people know that we disapprove of the situation but that we still support Steinbach as our city and will stand by them through this even though we don’t agree with everything they may do.  We’re all human and we all make mistakes.  SHS is here to be a solutin not another problem. 

Well, things are going really well in pretty much all the areas of my life.  I’m tracking my blood glucose levels and keeping them low enough not to have to use insoline.  Mike is really excited about Kaled’s arival.  He’s buying healthy food, looking at soothing CDs, comes to every appointment he can and is very protective over me.  Kailer is doing really well in school and will be moving on to grade one this coming fall.  Kaleb is doing really well.  He kicks me really hard in the ribs all the time, which is a good sign.  He’s head-down and very strong.  I’m pretty much prepared for him to come any time.  I have his bassinet set up, car seat in the car and clothes and daipers in the dresser.  I even have the daiper bag ready.  Even my house cleaning is going well.  I’m cleaning like crazy!  Any dirt or clutter just bugs me so much.  LOL!  I think my poor family is very confused.  Mike especially is torn between being happy about the clean house and having to deal with his new nagging wife.  LOL!  He’s doing pretty good though.  If I ask him to clean something up, he does it right away.  He also gets on Kailer’s case when Kailer leaves a mess because he sees how hard I’m working. 

We named baby yesterday evening.  Knowing he may arrive earier then expected has kinda lit a fire under out butts to get ready for him.  Anywho, his name is Kaleb Joshua.  Mike and I both really were drawn to the name Kaleb, but couldn’t agree on a middle name.  Prior to this, we had said that because Kailer’s second name Mikael is to honor Mike (Michael), then our second child would take my middle name Lee to honor me.  But I just couldn’t love the name Kaleb Lee.  Too many “L”s or something.  Since my brother Josh is such a big part of my life and has been such an inspiration, we chose to honor him.  So that’s baby’s name.  Kaleb Joshua. 

Oh boy I’m a mess.  On June 2nd Veronica my midwife called and told me that my glucose blood test came back with a reading of 11.3, which is too high.  She said she would contact an obstetritian to see what our next step should be.  Well, I googled high blood sugar during pregnancy and came across a new phrase to me - GESTATIONAL DIABETES.  As there is diabetes in my family line, this was cause for concern for me. So I did some more research.  Apparently this is not an uncommon condition for expectant mothers.  The placenta acts like a siv, letting glucose (sugar) through to the baby, but not the insoline he needs to process the glucose into energy.  So he becomes a little insoline producing factory.  Because he is getting so much sugar, he will grow and develope quicker and will most likely be born early, but at a regular full-term weight.  Then when he is born, his little body continues producing the mass amounts of insoline, but he’s not getting the extra sugar from me anymore, so then he suffers from low blood sugar in the first few days of life.  After birth, my body will most likely go back to normal, and I can eat what I want again.  Baby will also gain a healthy blood sugar level and be fine, but it’s later on in life that the desease can creep back in.  I am at rist for type 2 diabetes as is my baby.  He is also at a higher risk for developing childhood obesity. 

My midwife is very concerned about me and may not be able to continue care.  My care may be transfered to a doctor instead.  I’m not too fond of that possability, but we’ll see what happens.  I have two appointments for today.  I’m meeting in the city with my obstetritian  today at 11:00am and then a dietician in town at 2:00pm.  Then I have another appointment on Thursday in the city at 1:30pm with another doctor.  I’m holding it together alright, but I do get bouts of fear that I have to fight.  Sometimes when I’m alone, I just sit and cry so that Mike and Kailer don’t worry too much.  Kailer knows I’m sick and can’t have sugar, but I talk lightly with him about it as not to scare him.  I’m pretty sure I had this same thing when I was pregnant with Kailer, because he was born a month early and weighed 7 pounds and 14 ounces.  He also had to be taken to the NICU for a while due to low blood sugar levels.  No one ever explained it to us before though - until now.  Mike is very supportive.  He’s doing his best to take off work today to take me to my city appointment.  He’s concerned too and watches what I eat very carefully.  He used to body build, so he’s really great about being creative with optional meal ideas.  I’ll let you know how the appointments go today.

I’m reading Sink Reflections by FLY Lady.  I wish I would have read the book before ever visiting her website.  The site is really amazing, but the book is exactly what I needed.  I just finished Chapter 5 and my homework is to make a morning routine and bedtime routine.  So that’s my tackle for today. 

• MORNING ROUTINE
• - wake with alarm, get dressed AND MAKE THE BED
• - wake Kailer, eat a healthy breakfast, devotions
• - brush teeth and hair, wash face
• - turn on dishwasher if needed
• - do a load of laundry if needed
• - get Kailer off to school
• BEDTIME ROUTINE
• start tomorrow’s ToDo list
• - hit Hot Spots
• - set coffe perk timer for the morning
• - lay out tomorrow’s clothes
• - read for a little while
• - Go to bed at a decent hour

There.  short and sweet, and pretty easy to follow. This book is so great.  It’s not overwhelming at all, and since the author is speaking from experience, it’s that much more comforting. 

Well, it’s definately been a while since I wrote last.  Mike is now finished our deck and onto our storage shed.  It’s been raining a lot lately, so construction is slow. 

Kailer is getting better and better at playing soccer all the time.  Now if only his games would stop being rained out.  I told him to pretend that the goaly is allergic to the ball, so Kailer’s job is to kick the ball away from his goaly.  The kids don’t play with any positions or anything, so for now, Kailer has lots of room to run and expell his pent up energy. 

Mike and I are doing well.  He’s on days this week.  I like it because then I get the mornings to myself with Mike at work and Kailer in Kindergarten.  I also like it when Mike’s on the evening shift though because then we get the mornings together while Kailer’s in school. 

Baby’s strong and active, though I did get a bit of negative news last week.  My blood sugar level was way up which is the first sign of gestational diabetes.  It’s treatable at this point and may go away once baby is born.  It seems like the worst case synario is that I could develope type 2 diabetes from this and baby could also in the future.  I’m doing my best not to let that happen though.  I’m watching my sugar intake carefully and doing lots of research.  I learned that the pancreas produces insoline which levels out the glucose in my blood and the pancreas needs zinc to function.  So I’m eating foods high in zinc and will be buying a suppliment asap.  Other then that, all is well.  I’m in my 30th week now, so only 10 weeks left to go - unless I’m early or late.  There’s a good chance that baby will arrive early as Kailer was born a month early.  We’ll see. 

I just found out that someone stole a board from our back yard and I believe it was on my watch just a few hours ago while Mike was at work.  I had heard a bump noise, but I had been on the phone, so I glanced outside and saw nothing out of the ordenary, so I thought it had just been a bird.  Now Mike said that he counted the boards and there is a board missing from our deck.  Mike’s been working on our deck for a few days, and had the loose boards on top of the floor of the deck, which sits about 4.4 feet off the ground.  I’m feeling a bit unnerved right now.  It’s the fact that the person came in broad daylight to steal a $30 board.  The ladder was there too, but apparently they didn’t need that.  Weird.

My friend just warnned me about a Sizzling Walk restaraunt at the St. Vital food court that I frequent.  In fact, I just ate there this last Saturday - the day before this gross event.  I had rice, mixed veggitables and poppyseed chicken.  I could have had this.

For today’s Tackle It Tuesday, I will be tackling my entrance.  It’s not very big and very cluttered.  I didn’t get to it yesterday, so I’m doing it today.  Most of the stuff is dog stuff like food, litter, litter box and stuff like that.  So I’ll find a new place for most of that stuff so that my entrance looks like something you’d want to enter.