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Warning - Lots of bitching to follow.

July 31, 2009 – 4:19 pm

So it’s 4:00 in the afternoon and I have yet to shower…don’t judge. I woke up with a blood sugar of 350 at 5:00 this morning, promptly canceled my running date, rolled back over and prayed that the nausea would subside before my chick-a-dees started chirping for their breakfast at 7:00. The nausea didn’t go [...]

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More snippets from our daily life.

April 30, 2009 – 10:38 am

These installments should come in handy when my kids give me grief about not having any scrap/baby books.
Liv is getting ready to use the potty and spots a tampon on the counter. Sorry, TMI. But it’s essential to the dialogue that follows.
Liv: “Mama, that’s to help you poop, right?”
Me: “No, Liv.”
Liv: “To help you pee?”
Me: [...]

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What do you call a room full of people with diabetes…?

April 29, 2009 – 4:03 pm

Awesome.
I’ve had so many posts just begging to be written, but Facebook and Twitter seem so much easier to bang out. Alas, the blog has been left by the wayside…sad and lonely. This particular post keeps resurfacing with me, so it’s time to write…more than 140 characters that is.
I had my first “diabetes event” experience [...]

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Family dinners really can be fun.

April 15, 2009 – 4:43 pm

Here’s a sampling of our dinner conversations as of late:
Kade: Mama, you are hott.
Kyle: Kade, do you even know what that means?
Kade: Yes, I have a sexy mama.
Okay…I guess he does know what that means, but he did not learn it from me. I swear.
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Me: Liv, you are a ragamuffin. Please wipe your mouth.
About an [...]

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Still got it

March 28, 2009 – 10:56 am

My legs carried me through a 6 mile run this morning. I didn’t fully trust that they would make it. It was tough, but it was the springboard I needed to start training again. My mood, my blood sugars, my self-confidence have all been a mess ever since I took a “break” from running.  It’s [...]

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Struggling

March 27, 2009 – 4:39 pm

So last week I was consumed with making the neighbors think we had totally lost our minds (or at least misplaced our calendar).

I baked way too many of these.

And I even managed to make this, thanks to the kind woman at the local cake supply store who thought I was slightly crazy, but was nice [...]

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To make matters worse…

March 12, 2009 – 2:01 pm

Dame Edna and the Riddler have taken over our home.

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Party Prep

March 12, 2009 – 1:52 pm

So I’m beginning to feel the anxiety building over Kade’s 5th birthday extravaganza next weekend. There will be a house full of children here on Saturday for the Haunted Halloween celebration and then the family party is set for Sunday, which will be much more low key and pretty much sloppy seconds from the soiree [...]

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The bob is so in…

February 26, 2009 – 2:00 pm

I took Kade for a much needed haircut after school today. On the way in, Liv announced that she wanted a haircut too, and given her straggly-baby-fine mullet…I didn’t argue. However, I did not have a camera with me in order to chronicle my baby girl’s very first haircut.
She was a pro, sitting there with [...]

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A diabetic dilemma

February 25, 2009 – 4:39 pm

After two years of dealing with diabetes (more if you count the 3 months of injecting myself while pregnant with Liv), you would think I could handle the needles.
In reality, the only reason I am able to get my pump infusion sets in without a problem is because I use a rapid inserter that is [...]

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