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LAST CHANCE—WE ARE GOING INTO PRODUCTION!!!!! NEED ACTION SHOT OF YOUR CHILD.

Just wanted to give everyone a final opportunity. Here is the deal; when a newly diagnosed child occurs, parents (especially those of tween/teen-agers) want to find a celebrity who is doing amazing things…..even with diabetes.  “Anyone know a video that can inspire my newly diagnosed child?”  We hear it all the time. I am working […]

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A Baby can Teach us Somthing VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!

Babies are cute….aren’t they?  Ever spend time watching a baby?   I mean REALLY watching a baby?  They do incredibly fascinating things.  I find one move, and almost all babies do it, absolutely fascinating. Once babies get the idea of crawling……they will start to crawl away from their mom and suddenly turn around and look.  Sometimes […]

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“Diabetes is a Blessing!”…..uhm….I Could Use Some Help with That!!!!

I have read, over the years, of people saying the following; “I look at diabetes coming into our household as a blessing”.  Over the years I have also read of the reasons people stated that diabetes was a ‘blessing’: “I have met such wonderful people”. “We would have been divorced.” “It made us all become […]

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It’s a Diabetes Thing…….'”NOW GET OUT OF MY FACE”.

People just do not understand.  Very few do, in fact. When I have to tend to my child, YOUR timing is not my timing; in fact, and we had to learn this, our timing IS NOT our timing.  If our child needs tending to, our world stops.  Period. I do not care if you get frustrated because […]

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No Diabetes. Not on this Day. Not Today. You Will Not Win!!!!!!

Dear Diabetes, I know it has been a while since we corresponded, there was no need.  But you thought you would win recently and it opened the door to once again remind you a little bit on who we are……..in case you had forgotten. We are a family of resolve.  We are a family of […]

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The Ring, or; Why Mom’s are the Best People on Earth

Moms are real special people. She was about six years old when her dad took her shopping for a Mother’s Day gift.  “Pick out something, but make sure she will like it.”  This was the only charge given by the dad. She looked and looked, and already at this young age, it was clear that […]