Hi there. A few years back I switched blog hosts. I don’t know my subscribed list moved with the blog content. I am trying to determine if it did so if you are receiving this post in your inbox would you be a dear and just leave a quick comment please. I promise there is a good reason for this question and depending on what I learn from any response I will share why I am asking such an odd question. I do hope you are all well – I might not be talking to anyone if there are no more subscribers. Cheers ..read more

It is just a couple months short of a year since I last posted. So much has changed in the last 10 months. Too much to recap in this post, and this post isn’t a catch up. I had thought when life settled down I’d get back to writing. I had revamped my page and felt motivated last summer. Then some stuff came up, then some more stuff, and then 2020 came in like a wrecking ball and well, here I am finally sitting down to put pen to paper so to speak. You may be thinking – wow what revelation has prompted a post after such a long hiatus during such a chaotic time? Well hold on to your socks becaus ..read more

I started blogging in 2011, although I don’t think my earliest posts are still around. The first place I blogged was on ‘blogspot’, not sure that is even still around. I blogged regularly for a couple years, and then less regularly but still a few times in a month for a couple years, and then just got, busy, lazy, overwhelmed, all of thee above? Yesterday I got an email from Bluehost, a web hosting company, notifying me they renewed my website, which automatically happens every June. I get the auto-renew email every year but just dismiss it. I knew each of the last few years that I wasn’t ..read more

Please don’t call me a hero. Yes I have 3 children with diabetes. That doesn’t make me a hero. It makes me a mom with extra duties. I recently joined two groups on Facebook. One for users of Dexcom G5, the other for users of Tandem insulin pumps. When I’ve commented on a couple different posts in both groups I had mentioned that I have 3 cwd. I didn’t shout it out like “Hey I have 3 kids with diabetes”. It was just something that came up as I tried to offer advice or support regarding sensor placement, or pump choices, or how diabetes can go all pear-shaped for seemingly no reason. In response ..read more

Seriously I should have paid much closer attention in chemistry class. Ok, I should have paid some attention in chemistry class. Is it really common knowledge that ammonia and bleach create a toxic gas that can kill? Surely not every single other adult knows this except me, right? Damnit. So as a substitute teacher I am not actually working so much yet. Ok, I haven’t accepted a single sub job yet this year. All the items on my summer to-do list I had back in June have moved to the fall to-do list. Honestly I didn’t complete a single item on my to-do list. Now that the kids are back in school I ..read more

Did you know that liquid DayQuil is an excellent chaser for Robitussin? Day 4 of a cold that won’t quit. Day 2 of Diabetes Blog Week. I worked all day teaching a classroom of kindergartners and explaining to them for the second day that I couldn’t high-five, shake hands, or give hugs because I didn’t want to share germs. One little friend suggested we just give each other thumbs up throughout the day. Is my nose really that big? Don’t answer. Gosh I hope the bags under my eyes were not that prominent when I was teaching. And this is why I don’t take selfies and I mostly stay out of photos unle ..read more

That title is an over used quote and cliché. I’m sick so hopefully you’ll give me a little leeway because creativity is not on the table this morning. Seriously the mother of all colds hit me hard Saturday morning and hasn’t let up. Today is Day 1 of diabetes blog week. Diabetes blog week is a week-long blogging event with daily prompts to get folks sharing their thoughts on a particular issue or experience. For many diabetes blog week is a set of jumper cables on blogs (bloggers) who have taken a much longer than intended hiatus from blogging. Or maybe that’s just me. Today’s prompt copied fr ..read more

When you have 3 hours of waiting and nothing to do but pace the floor of the ski patrol office the worst case scenarios are what play through your head. We moved to Washington state in March of 2014. Prior to that we had not lived in an area that was big on downhill skiing. The boys took some lessons early 2015 in Whistler B.C. Then we took them to Kellogg, ID for New Years 2015/16 where they each got another 2 days of skiing. After that they joined the ski club at their school and got another 6 afternoons of skiing experience in 2016. So far in 2017 they each also have had a half-dozen days o ..read more

As a parent of a child (ok multiple children) with diabetes there are times when I have missed small hour alarms and slept through the night after some major correction bolus at bedtime only to wake in a startled panic holding my breath until I see my child breathing the next morning. I haven’t ever met a parent of a child with diabetes that hasn’t experienced the above scenario. Thankfully ‘dead in bed’ is not as common as we train ourselves to believe. Fear is insidious. In the early years after diagnosis we micromanage as much as we can to keep our kids safe. It is normal for us to do so. W ..read more

For the love of all things –  stop trying to wage war on each other. Ok that may be a bit dramatic. It also doesn’t apply to most of my friends. But seriously no type of diabetes is easier or more difficult than another. No one asks for any type of diabetes and no one causes their diabetes regardless of type. I’m not a scientist. I’m not a medical professional. I’m a coffee drinking, Doctor Who watching, lover of all things chocolate, that has no real education in diabetes aside from raising three kids with diabetes and having hundreds of friends with various types of diabetes, but I’ve been a ..read more