STRETCH MARKS?!

On Friday I found stretch marks on my belly! Aaaahhhaahhah! I seriously thought I was blessed to have no stretch marks so far and then I was getting ready to hop in the shower, and then.. ugh. Straight up stretch marks. I have them right just on the underside of my belly. So, that sucks balls. Nothing I can do though, just.. gotta deal with them.

Sigh, sucks though. My belly is REALLY starting to grow now, and I am getting more and more freaked out about getting more stretch marks. I was slacking on the cocoa butter routine for a few weeks. I knew I shouldn't have stopped! Ugh, lol. My weight gain has been gradual though, but I guess that doesn't matter. My mom has stretch marks from having me and my sisters, so I suppose I was doomed to get them eventually.

I hope they don't get too bad, because I want to wear bikinis in the summer.. lol.

Aaaahaahaaah! =/

Love,
Tiare

News from the Doc :(

So I got the results from my glucose test yesterday and my sugar level was really high, so today I went in for a 3 hour glucose test.. omg. The cutoff level is 140 and my level was 161. So I went in this morning and got my blood drawn, drank the sugary drink, and got my blood drawn every hour for 3 hours. So I got poked 4 times.. (5 when you count my progesterone shot). I'm a human pin cushion, lol.

Anyway, on a serious note.. omg, I hope I pass this one. It would really suck if I have gestational diabetes. My diet would have to be super strict, but the good thing is that gestational diabetes goes away after the pregnancy. Who knows what's going to happen? Only God knows. The nurse said the results should come back around Thursday.

I had the fetal fibronectin test done today, and the nurse said that I should be getting a call from her tomorrow with the results. Hopefully, it comes back negative :) In the meantime, I'm still ordered to chill out and take it easy. As far as my cervical changes go, my doctor said that my cervix still feels the same as last week, a little bit opened on the outside. However, it did shorten a little bit since last week.. it's now at 2.6 cm, but the funneling still looks the same as last week. He's still not too worried yet, he wants to wait for the fibronectin results to come back first to see what we need to do from here. I pray it comes back negative because I really don't want to go into preterm labor. If it comes back positive though, I'll probably have to be put on strict bed rest. Hang in there, Caleb!

Love,
Tiare

Love.

Love is such a huge word. Maybe even the biggest word I use? Definitely.

When I was younger, I remember imagining what life would be like when I found the person I loved. It was too hard to imagine. I didn't know him, I didn't know what he looked like, what he liked to do, how he dressed, what his personality was like.

I remember when I was in high school saying things to my friends like, "Can you believe that in probably EIGHT years we will be married!?" 

I get to cuddle with this guy I know and hang out with him any time I want, we cook together, we have a baby together, we have fun together. We love together. All the time we look at each other and say, "Can you believe we are married?"

For those of you who haven't heard our story (long story short) we met when I was in the 12th grade, he was out of high school, in the army, and he was on leave from his 1st tour in Iraq. We had the same group of friends, so that's how we initially met each other. He wasn't my type (and at the time I had a boyfriend, so I really never paid much attention to him... later on, that relationship ended several months later). When I graduated high school, I was browsing through myspace and recognized him and added him as a friend. He myspace messaged me (keeping it classy of course) and we talked and he told me he had been back in Iraq and was coming home to the states in a couple of months. From that day on we have talked every single day. 

We started dating August 30, 2006.

We were engaged on March 17, 2007 (seven months after we started dating -- cray cray, I know!)

We got married October 30, 2007.

 

Love. You have to compromise, be selfless, and much much more. It's the easiest thing I have ever done, because I know I wouldn't rather do those things for any other man in the world, and I know no man in this world could love me like he does. 

(Please excuse the dorky hipster glasses)

I will never be able to wrap my mind around the fact that I married Micheal Johnson. He's my best friend. I am overwhelmingly in love with this one single person. God chose ME to be his wife.

XOXO,

Tiare