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It's been a crazy week! My brain is fried…so I present to you, my life in facts. FACT #1: I predicted on Facebook we would have an offer on our house this week.FACT #2: Offer on the table…waiting to see if it will pan out.FACT #3: Perfect house still available. (Although a little unsure since all my blogger friends seem to think the offer didn’t pan out the first time because it is probably run over by demonic scorpions.)FACT #4: It would take a million miracles for this all to work out like we want…luckily for me….I believe in miracles.FACT #5: We have had a couple of people come through the house everyday…which leads to me smattering the house with all kinds of chemicals. As a result, our medical alert dog Lawton has been a bit off his game.FACT #6: A few long night of lows because Lawton...
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
The straw that saved the camel's back
I’m not going to lie. There have been a couple times in my life, admittedly more than I can count, where I have silently threatened, “If I have to check a blood sugar ONE MORE TIME, I’m gonna LOSE it!” Which we all know is a bunch of hooey cause, yeah…I’ll be checking someone in like an hour for sure.But you get what I mean, right?Once in awhile, we just get overrun with the little things. Now not to toot my own horn or anything, but back in the day when the boys weren’t too keen on poking themselves, I was the gal in charge…8 times a day…times 3 boys…24 blood sugar checks a day.And sick days? Forget about it! Times that by two, (at least!) NOT FUN.Back in the day when my husband worked nights…and days…well, ALL the time…he went to bed before I did and I was in charge of the 10:00pm check....
Friday, June 18, 2010
Meri's Soap Opera...These are the days of her life...
It wasn’t pretty people.We had an offer on our house. They people LOVED our house. They paid for all the inspections. They even had the appraiser there that morning…so we felt good.We had found the perfect house. In the perfect location. With the perfect amount of space.Hello…I’m not exaggerating…PERFECT.We put in an offer. We were elated hoping they would accept it. We had full on perma-grin for two hours.Yeah, only for two hours.Because two hours after we put an offer in a house, we were called with the news that OUR buyer suddenly backed out. So we had to take the offer for our dream house off the table.It was over that quickly. So I did what most people would do in my situation…I felt sorry for myself.But since I’m not like most people, I then I took it a step further. I went...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
In it to win it...together.
I was looking at my boys this morning. They are so big and have come so far. The journey they have taken so far has already been epic.My three youngest were diagnosed as babies. 8 months. 2 years. 5 years. They needed so much help for years…we did E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. for them.But now…NOW…things are different. They check their own sugars when they wake up. They often make their own breakfast, they count their own carbs…they bolus themselves. Even my 6 year old knows how many carbs are in a bowl of cereal, or a piece of toast, or his favorite, Eggo's. He knows if he has milk with his Eggo's he needs to use the little glass, and then add 10 more carbs. And if he forgets, my 12 year old is there to remind him. CRAY-Z!It is so surreal.They still totally need me of course…but life is so much easier...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
From Zero to Hero
You know that saying…”Sometimes your best isn’t good enough?”Well in my life I often feel like…”Most of the time, my best isn’t good enough.”I fail a lot.In my eyes anyway.It’s hard to fail ALL the time. It wears on me. It is overwhelming. Every time the boy’s blood sugars are not in range, I feel like I fail. It’s a ding to my armor…and my armor is seriously unrecognizable these days friends…it’s hanging on by a thread so to speak.But, I walk around like my armor is all shiny and dent free…I can pretend anything away these days. A number will pop up…and I say, “It is what it is…let’s fix it and move on!” But on the inside I’m bracing for the...
Friday, June 4, 2010
Reenactment: Too tired parents.
11:00pm the night before the last day of school.The boy’s blood sugars are 108, 112 and 183. (A total miracle they are all pretty good.) The parents are on their way to bed when…Mom: “You checked B’s insulin on board, right?”Dad: “No, I thought you did. You checked L’s IOB, right?”Mom: “No, I thought you did.”(Parents do an about face and check IOB only to find that both boys need a small snack to make it through the night.) Dad: Sets one alarm for the 1am check, and the other for 3:30am for his sales meeting… and then collapses into bed.Mom: “Man alive, I am EXHAUSTED! You have no idea!” Her back to him, small smirk on her face. She knows her hubby worked like 12 hours today, and then attended the 6th grade promotion like she had. He wasn't probably more exhausted, he was...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
I may have never met this girl before...but I knew her better than she'd ever know.
We walk by hundreds of people a day. Walk by them and don’t give them a thought. Their lives are a complicated woven web of facts and information, feelings and experiences. But once in awhile, we stop and notice someone. We look up from our hectic crazy life and SEE someone. And they touch your heart. I had such an experience last Friday at a Wendy’s of all places. After I had picked up J from camp, we were not able to return home for an hour as a realtor was showing our house to some clients.So we went to the corner Wendy’s for a long chat about his experiences at camp. But before we even had a chance to sit down at our table…I saw her.A beautiful young blond girl with the tell tale black blood sugar monitor case sitting beside her.I knew it the instant I saw her. I knew what that case was....
