Yeah, it's probably more an academic exercise than a real question (finding the right level of carbs w/o grains or legumes)...I imagine that most people who can't tolerate even small amounts of legumes or grains would probably have trouble controlling their sugar without insulin (and, you're right, not be able to eat potatoes). When I was diagnosed with GD (notice I don't say "when I had GD") the only thing that gave me trouble (other than eating tons of carbs of any sort in one sitting) was fruit juice. I'm doing a low-carb diet now (not pregnant!), and I eat almost no grains or legumes--it would be very easy for me to avoid them altogether--but I'm eating a lower level of carbs than I would be comfortable with if I were pregnant.

Maybe our definitions of "enough carbs" are just different. I would consider enough carbs during pregnancy to be any amount that keeps you out of ketosis and doesn't cause you to lose weight....I don't think that would be hard to do at all without eating grains or legumes. I mean, suppose you want to eat 30 grams of carbs with a meal, and you know that grains and legumes are out. You can still eat, say, a small serving of potato and a big salad with your protein.

"four or more problems" :D I love it! It's like you were from one of those cultures where they don't name numbers past a certain point. He solved either 1, 2, 3, or....just a whole lot of problems.

Why not just not eat grains OR legumes if they cause your blood sugar to spike?

huh? How much did it cost to write one blog post?

no, but that's a good question. It was just an offhand thing tossed into an article I read. It wasn't sourced, so I have no idea how accurate it is. I imagine one could go wade through all the stuff on his website to try to find it, though...if one had time. Which, of course, we don't anymore :D

You can also pick up a glucometer at the drug store and check your sugars yourself (the meters are very cheap; the test strips are pricy). I think getting a good idea of how your body reacts to the foods you typically eat is much better than drinking a giant dose of straight glucose anyway. FWIW, with a 147 it's very likely you'll pass the 3 hour. I always failed my 1 hour, but only failed the 3 hour once. I looked up the numbers once, and it's something like 80 or 90% of people with 1 hours under 150 pass the 3 hour. of course, the one time I did fail the 3 hour, my one hour was 143, so, as always, YMMV.

I read today that Camping estimates that about 3% of the world's population is going to be raptured, so apparently he thinks most people who claim to be Christians are presuming too much, too.

I've tried and tried to make sense out of it (I mean, the Y2K thing at least I could understand why people were worried about it; I was able to grasp the concept), and...it really just doesn't make any sense. It's based on two things, I believe...one, the idea that it's been exactly 7000 years since the flood and a day in heaven is like a thousand years on earth. Umm, so when God warned Noah about the flood he was ALSO warning us. Something like that. But as far as I can tell pretty much no one who's at all interested in coming up with a date for the flood agrees that it's been 7000 years anyway. Most people place it somewhere in the 2000's BC. So there's that. And then things get really weird: http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping/2 Now you're all convinced, right? Atonement x Completeness x Heaven. Squared. Duh.

1. Freedom Trail, especially the USS Constitution 2. Museum of Science 3. Harvard's Natural History Museum

Okay, I've spent all evening on petfinder, and now I'm totally in love with about 10 different little terriers of various kinds. Like the Scottie named Lulu. And the Cairn Terrier mix named Jelly Bean. Jelly Bean! I want to go get him tomorrow. But I cannot. It does seem like a young, little terrier of indeterminate ancestry will be pretty easy to find as a rescue, though...they're a lot more common than corgis on petfinder. so, hey, related question: has anyone paid someone to do temperament testing when getting a rescue dog? I think the place one of my dogs went for obedience offers this. It seems like a good idea, but I wonder how much they can really tell. I know getting a dog from a foster as opposed to a shelter helps you get a better idea of a dog's quirks...but my mom fosters Cocker Spaniels, so I also know that foster parents sometimes...how shall we say? accentuate the positive a bit much.

Yeah, it's hopeless, isn't it? MY 22 pound dog can't reach the counters, but he can (still. at 16) climb onto my kitchen table when no one's looking. Maybe I should just keep the elaborate system of gates in place to keep all dogs out of the kitchen forever!

x-posted with you--thanks for all the info!

the problem with breed selection quizzes is they never ask about chickens :lol:. I just went and tried it, and got...a million different dogs. Herding dogs and assorted spaniels always seem to come up at the top of the list for me. Ooh! There's that whole scrappy little terrier class that I was forgetting about! It seems like chickens really ought to be different enough from rats that terriers would know to leave them alone... So if I like fat, stinky, disobedient dogs, a Corgi should be great? :D Thanks! I think it says something about just how challenging my crazy Lucy girl is that all of those issues sound totally manageable to me. But then, this is the dog whom expensive dog behaviorist #2 called "the most interesting case of dog on dog aggression I've ever seen." It's the herding dog thing, I guess. I want a really smart dog with no issues, and that's not usually how it works. My friend got a Pug recently, and I actually like her. I always thought I hated pugs, but apparently I like them just fine.

Schnauzers are cute! I'm not opposed to herding dogs...I'm just wary of the issues that come with dogs who think they're smarter than you are ;). But I'm definitely drawn to them; all the dogs I've had as an adult have been herding dogs or herding dog mixes.

I have a very dog aggressive Cattle Dog mix right now, and no new dogs are coming into the house until she's gone (we tried that a couple of years ago; I now have an elaborate system of gates in my house to keep the two of them separated all the time, and DH has a scar on his leg from a pre-elaborate gate system dog fight breakup). But she's almost 13 now, and, while I know she could live a few more years (my just turned 16 year old other cattle dog mix is still hanging in there), I'm starting to think ahead. Our sole young dog is....some kind of shaggy herding dog. The shelter called him an Old English Sheepdog mix, but, as unlikely as it is because they're very rare, our best guess is that he's a Bergamasco or a Bergamasco cross. He was kind of an impulse Christmas present to the family. We went to the shelter a couple of days after Christmas 2 years ago and picked out the biggest, furriest, cutest dog we saw. We love him, but, honestly, he's not the best match for us, and he has issues we couldn't have known about in advance since he came from the shelter. He's kind of nervous and grumbly around the kids sometimes, and he has some resource guarding issues. Basically, while I love both my doggy problem children, I'd like to do a lot of research for the next go round and try to find a dog who really fits in with the family. So, since I don't know whether I have 6 months or 3 years to research (and because I'm a compulsive planner) I've started thinking about breeds to look into more. Here's what I'm looking for: *good with kids (but we don't have babies or toddlers anymore) *good with cats *won't kill chickens *too small to reach the counters (I'm tired of trying to train them not to do it. I just want one who can't reach.) *also want a smaller dog for other reasons. I want the smallest dog who can still play with my 60 pounder. I'm thinking 20-35 lbs is probably perfect. *NO dog aggression issues. Done with that. *I prefer short haired dogs, but it's not a strong preference *Fairly active is fine. We have a big yard and go for a long walk every day, and I'm hoping for a dog that one of the kids might want to do agility or flyball with. I know, of course, that you can't predict all of this based on breed, but I'm just looking for a place to start. I love, love, LOVE herding dogs...but they tend to be sort of full of issues. The chicken thing makes me wary of hunting dogs, and there are an awful lot of hunting dogs. So far my list looks like this: Corgi ...yeah, that's pretty much it. I did have rat terrier on there, too, but I hear they're often bad with cats. So maybe we can add rat terrier who is known to be good with cats to the list? anyone had a Corgi? At the moment, I think of them as my dream dogs, but I haven't really known any terribly well. The ones I've met have all seemed nice, though. They seem like one of the saner herding dogs. So...who can help me expand my list so that I can waste even MORE time on Petfinder? :D

My first DS (also big) didn't crawl until 9 1/2 months. He could stand up holding onto things before that, and he'd pull up on something if he happened to be right next to it, but he didn't really make any attempts to get anywhere until he turned over and started crawling one day. We said he had an "if I can't reach it, I don't need it" approach to babyhood.

Math Olympiad starts in 4th grade. DH ran a group this past year, and the kids had a good time (we had one kid who was much younger than 4th grade by age, too, but really advanced at math; Math Olympiad was fine with that). So that's one idea for a way younger kids can get together to do math and hang out with other math-loving kids. (and can I just pat my non-mathy self on the back for getting the "epsilon" reference? My FIL was friends with Erdos, and DH remembers being called an Epsilon when he would visit them).

DS7 is finishing up second grade and did 1B/2A this year, and, yes, I'm comfortable with it (he'll work over the summer to finish up 2A, but I think doing at least a little math over the summer is always a good idea anyway). We spent a lot of first grade on a detour into Right Start, and that slowed us down a good bit, but I think this is also just where he needs to be. What's the alternative? Pushing him ahead of what he's ready for? As a couple of people posted, Singapore's website says they consider 2B/3A to be appropriate for "average" math students in 3rd grade. My older son is finishing up 6A in 4th grade, on the other hand...that's why we homeschool, right? so we can do what's right for each kid. And then there's my 5 year old who's tearing through 1A....this is what happens when math majors and English majors reproduce :D

frontline does nothing for us anymore. we had to switch to advantage a couple of years ago.

Prayer is constantly mysterious to me. I should really do more reading about different conceptions of and ideas about prayer, because it's fascinating and frustrating. I sort of keep a collection of ideas about prayer that have struck me and stuck with me over the years in my head. Here are a few: *a guy in my Sunday school class awhile back said, "I think it's blasphemy, for lack of a better word, to think that God cares who wins the Superbowl." *Anne Lamott on prayer (from Traveling Mercies): Here are the two best prayers I know: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." And then there's this from an interview Jonathan Alter did with Elizabeth Edwards a couple of years before she died. It speaks to some of the issues in this thread: ETA: had I read the whole thread, I'd have seen that Anne Lamott is already well-represented!

Thanks everyone! My science list will soon rival my history list! Keep 'em coming, please :)

Because we know how to have fun around here, I've spent the weekend making lists of netflix movies to go with our history next year for....Documentary Night! There will be popcorn! I want to do a list for science, too, and I'm having a harder time finding recommendations. We'll probably be focusing on earth and space science, so I'm particularly interested in documentaries--and relevant and age appropriate (for 5-10 year olds who are not especially sensitive about scary movies) non-documentary movies--relating to that. And are there any existing lists out there of movies coordinating with WTM science recommendations, by chance? That would be handy.

well, look at that! thanks for the link. My older son gets his math genes from his Dad, so I have trouble keeping things in perspective sometimes.

Oh, look--it's right there on her website: http://www.planetesme.com/resuscitation.html ETA: huh. She says it's a list of great read alouds, but I think it's the same list, retitled.