Leavin'...on a jet plane. :)

My laptop died in my arms yesterday.I think I died a little bit along with it.It was my first laptop. I started this blog on it.I discovered the Diabetic Online Community within its bright screen.I started my Facebook account, my twitter account and typed my heart out tinkering on its keys.Let me tell you, it saw its share of tears on the keyboard.Maybe I killed it with love.Whatever happened, I got a new one. And no...I don't have a problem. Getting a new laptop the day after your old one breaks is VERY normal. I can live without being on line.Cha!...for like 48 hours! (Hey, I didn't want to push it!)So here I am on this new laptop, who...

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Sweet Peeps: My new blog roll.

In an effort to clean up some of my real estate...I've followed the lead of some of my friends, and made a separate blog for my blog roll. All ya gotta do is click on my peeps in the side bar. They look like this...My peeps will take you to all the linky wonderfulness of my blog roll!Go on! Dive into the DOC blogosphere...the water's fine!And hey, while you're looking around, check out my new disclaimer at the very bottom of this blog. Than...

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My rainbow has flair.

He is my squishy. He is everything a 7 year old should be. He is innocent, he is adorable, and he is funny.He is my baby.Everything he does brings a smile. Looking at his big round sweet eyes makes everything better, always.L is my rainbow.Last summer he began feeling his lows and he hasn’t looked back since. He has always had such pride in feeling the lows, but nowadays it’s almost like he takes ownership of them. It makes him feel grown up to handle the lows on his own, so he handles them the only way he knows how…with flair.He won’t tell me he feels low when we are home. He just goes and checks his sugar. Then, once his suspicions...

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Checking in

I seriously have nothing to blog about.And you know what? I think that is blogworthy.Usually I sit down at the computer and throw up some post from the depths of my soul. But today…meh…I got nothing.And man, nothing never felt so good.The boy’s basals are on track.The boys are happy.Daddy is happy.Mama is happy.Life is what is supposed to be. Just plain ol’ life.No drama for the D Mama.It probably has something to do with the boys being on Spring Break, but looking back, there have been many more days like this than not. And I’m thankful for each and every one of them.‘Cause it means, we are ok.We are SO ok.For those of you who are having a bad...

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Tiernan’s Got Talent

Susan is one of my dearest friends. We were introduced by a mutual friend a few years ago and forged an instant bond. Sure, we both have been blessed with multiple diabetics, but I like to think we would have been friends regardless. She has a wicked sense of humor and a smile that would light up any room. Her laughter is contagious, her wisdom runs deep and her heart is big as all get out. It isn’t unreasonable to deduce that from her wonderfulness, she has produced wonderful children…in fact I’m sure that was always a given. Her children are down to earth, friendly and bright.One of her boys is Tiernan. He looks like a normal teenager. One...

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Our Diabetic Life: Blogjacked by Meri's Phone.

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High apple pie in the sky hopes!

Often, it's like we are banging our head against the wall...hoping for a different result every time we go in for the next bang."Maybe this time it will bring a different result!" We say enthusiastically to ourselves as we bolus our child for the impossible meal in front of them.And we fail. Not all the time, but dang if it doesn't FEEL like all the time.Man, we are SO SO hard on ourselves. We don't take our full time pancreas gig lightly, that is for sure...Where do we find the energy to keep trying? We are like The Little Engine That Could! We think we can! We think we can! We think we can! All this "think we can" stuff is mentally exhausting!...

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The Bullet Train

We weren’t doing anything, I swear.We were just strolling down the boardwalk of life when BAM…the bullet train swept us up!Strep.The Strep Bullet Train.We went from a leisurely pace to supersonic speed in an instant. There was no going back. There was no getting off. We needed to stop the train before our fate turned to careening down the cliffs at the tracks end.When you are on a bullet train your mind becomes jello. Every decision must be made instantly…and when there is urgency in your decisions, your decisions don’t come easily.If I was on the boardwalk…I could have calmly and thoughtfully put together a plan of attack.If we had warning…But...

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The blood sugar check/no pain enigma

I checked L’s sugar for him today and I asked him straight out…”Did that hurt?”“Nope,” he said.“No?” I said.“Nope,” he said again.Wait a minute…STOP THE BLOG!(Long, dramatic, thoughtful pause…)It has to hurt, right?A little bit? Right?It hurts me just pullin’ the trigger. It has to hurt him! I mean I just shunked a needle into his finger and drew blood. It HAS to hurt.Then…no more than 10 minutes later, I see J checking his sugar…ON. HIS. THUMB!Rewind the tape! When J was younger, and I did most the checking, the thumb was OFF LIMITS! It was a HUGE deal. No thumb poking…EVER!And here he was right in front of me testing his thumb like it was the...

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What About Meri?

Abraham Lincoln said: “When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you usually will.”Meri says: “If you look for the bad in diabetes, in life and in yourself, expecting to find it, you usually will.”On the flip side…Meri says: “If you look for the GOOD in diabetes, in life and in yourself, expecting to find it, you usually will.”You get what you look for.My post last week, Finding the Warmth, was the accumulation of weeks of me constantly looking for the bad in myself and the world around me…constantly worrying how things will affect me, constantly worrying how my faults will affect my family….constantly looking at what I am not,...

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