sweet, but not too sweet

It's 2 weeks later, and I still have one lingering bruise from the 3-hour glucose test. The good news is that I passed the test just fine, and my doctor's office was nice enough to track me down on my cell phone the night before I left town for a long weekend. I was so relieved and grateful to know that I wouldn't have to add more restrictions to my diet and have the added worries of gestational diabetes.

The test was no fun at all. After fasting for 12 hours and no water for 4 hours, my veins ran dry for the fourth and final blood draw. The tech tapped 2 different veins and after a lot of wiggling and poking she came up empty. I swear I heard my vein sputter in exhaustion. I offered the vein in the top of my left hand which has been used before and while it sounds gross, it was completely painless and worked out much better. I wish she would've tried my hand sooner because my right arm was sore and badly bruised after the failed attempts. I'm not a queasy person and after she was done I had to lie down for a few minutes.

I brought my knitting with me. I'm working on my most ambitious knitting project ever for Miss Bean. It's a striped blanket that will have ducks at the top border. It's my first time working with more than one color and the yarn is an unforgiving, mercerized cotton. The yarn arrived in those long twists and when I tried to make a ball from it for the first time, I made an enormous tangle of knots that took a few hours to fix. I felt like I was in over my head before I even picked up my needles! BUT, the blanket is actually coming along very well and my stitches are smooth and even. I've been impressing myself with how good it looks! I'm still working on the stripes (I could finish 1 and a half stripes between blood draws.), but my confidence is growing and I'm getting psyched to tackle the ducks.