Navigating, College, Toddlers and Farmstead.

This is ongoing and there will be more posts about it!

“Eliminate can’t from your vocabulary because you can!”

I started college in April 2023. I was 35 my daughter was 5 months old, and my son had just turned 3. I felt motivated to do something with the time I would have by staying at home with my kids. I always have this fear that I am never doing enough as a stay-at-home parent. I also felt as though I need a more 9-5 style job instead of that chef life. If you know you know.

When I was pregnant, I had gestational diabetes with both my daughter and son. I was able to control it with diet and exercise with my son, and with my daughter I had to take insulin shots. When you have a gestational diabetes diagnosis you are required to see a dietitian, they are supposed to help you with your meal choices and how to strive for good blood sugars etc. Well not to talk badly (I loved her) about my dietician but she had said to me “you know more about foods than I do at this point.” That really stuck with me. I could help women in the same situation as me and help them feel more at ease navigating the dreaded GDM diagnosis. When pregnant with my son I was terrified that everything I would eat or do would be bad for him. When I got the gestational diabetes diagnosis, I thought it was my fault, and it hurt so much. After immersing myself in everything GDM I learned its actually quite a common diagnosis, and is not the need of the world, but without guidance it can feel like it.