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Hike of a lifetime
May 17, 2012
Training
These two weeks weren’t supposed to be spent at home. Before thumb-sucking alien baby made its presence be known, Big Ring and I were a planning a vacation touring the…
22 weeks: numbers on a scale
May 15, 2012
Diabetes
I’m not a crier, I hate breaking down into tears, I try to avoid it at all costs. But this morning, when I walked out of the pregnancy in diabetes…
Plan B: making changes
May 9, 2012
Diabetes
I have a bit of a secret that I’ve kept from the lot of you for quite some time, and I’m actually a mix of shocked and impressed that I’ve…
Cooking up a baby hiker
May 7, 2012
Diabetes
As many of you know, Big Ring is convinced we’re having a cyclist, not just a thumb-sucking alien baby, but a world-class cyclist, like a baby Mark Cavendish, or Andy…
19 weeks: The stubborn gene
April 26, 2012
Diabetes
The things I learned about thumb-sucking alien baby today: It’s stubborn. It has a beautiful spine. It may have evil tendencies. It’s going to be a future cyclist. And it…
The state of urine
April 25, 2012
Pregnancy in Diabetes
Warning: Some of you may read this post and think eww, ick, disgusting, too much information, and that’s fine if you do, because really, it is kind of grody and…
Hunchbacks of Diabeticland
April 23, 2012
Diabetes
Hiking, that’s the cure to my current state of boring, pregnancy approved exercise. While walks bore the heck out of me, and cycling is a little more challenged figuring out…
Archie’s worst nightmare
April 13, 2012
Pregnancy in Diabetes
Dear iPhone stranger named Archie, I sincerely apologize for causing your heart to unsafely palpitate, your brow to drip with fearful sweat, and your hands and lips to shake as…
Let the cycling season begin
April 9, 2012
Diabetes
You know it’s cycling season in the Princess/Big Ring household when Princess wakes up at 3:40 a.m. only to discover she’s alone in the bed, and that Big Ring has…
‘Do you think you could be pregnant’
April 8, 2012
Diabetes
Happy Easter blog friends! I hope your long weekend has been filled with chocolate bunnies, colourful Easter eggs, yummy ham and stuffing (ohhhh the stuffing!) all encapsulated in a cocoon…
16 weeks: brisk and bulbous
April 4, 2012
Diabetes
It was bound to happen, that day was sure to come, but given my natural tendencies towards a life of blissful denial, I didn’t believe it would ever come for…
