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WANTED: ‘Celebrities’ to Inspire Kids w/T1…..NOT SO FAST!!!!!

We see it all the time.  Either something happens, or a child is newly diagnosed, and the search for a celebrity is sought to help the child know that they can do anything with diabetes.  Sometimes it’s new…..sometimes a reminder is needed.  Celebrities are fabulous and it is great they share their stories.  But I […]

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“Pssst–Parents??” A Message from Your Child’s School…uhm…the Building!!!

Dear Parents, It’s me, your child’s school. I know that may seem weird, I mean I’m not the principal nor a teacher, and surely not the school nurse…….I’m just a building; what do I have to say of any importance….right? But I do. First of all, your child looked great for the first day.  Really.  […]

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The Way WE Treat Diabetes……Should be Incorporated at the United Nations!

Arguments.  Conflicts. Whether with your spouse, your child, between siblings, and any other combination in between.  If you have a dollar to bet, you can bet that a conflict will arise in your home in the not-to-distant future. When these incidents occur, it is no so easy to switch gears and go from heated discussion […]

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Frozen, Elsa, Let it Go, and the John Lasseter Interview—All of it and His Son with T1.

I am informed that our friends at Aubrey’s Army website has a link posted to the John Lasseter video from last night’s television show on ABC; The Story of Frozen; Making a Disney Animated Classic. On the video, Mr. Lasseter speaks of Frozen’s character of Elsa and how she, in some ways, parallels the life of […]

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If Only….in Our Favor. A T1 16-Year-Old Driver, Makes the Right Call!!!

How many times have things happened where we said, “…if only….”?  If they were only a few minutes earlier or a few minutes later, the catastrophe would have been avoided? “If Only”. A while back I started noticing how many times, “if only in our favor”.  How many times we have the story end in […]

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John Lasseter—Frozen’s ‘Let it Go’ and Elsa, Relates to His Son with T1

NOTE ADDED: In some postings it has Anna in the headline—it has been corrected accordingly to be Elsa; which is the correct character. Tonight on Behind the Scenes Look at  The Story of Frozen on ABC, creator, genius John Lasseter talked candidly about the character of Elsa and how he saw similarities with her feeling alone and different […]