Some days are frustrating. Well, a lot of days are frustrating, but when you have a kid with T1D, it's a different kind of frustrating. I worked today, but his numbers this morning looked something like this - Waking, 60. After breakfast, 310. Before lunch, 67, Before dinner, 217. After dinner 69. Whaaaaat??? Imagine the above. So, he bounced between that and feeling crazy off the hook from being high ALL DAY. Back and forth.. screeching about whatever - it's never a normal voice -and then imagine not being able to figure out WHY - Is it the carb count? Is it the overage factor? Is it what he ate? Should he eat something else? Life is hectic enough with 2 kids, school, work, Doug's work, but now we have to second guess EVERY.THING. it seems.

Happy Easter!

A week after Easter 2012:

Yep, chugging chocolate milk.

Easter 2013:

Yep, runny nose, bunny hat and all (I'm sure I'll pick on him years from now for this). Do you know what I find amazing? We got a handful of candy for Easter and that's it. Normally we'd have a  TON - in eggs, in baskets, all over. This year, Doug and I got some Starburst (which is Ollie's preference for when he's low.. so yes, I kind of cheated and he got "medicine" for Easter :P Ha!), a family friend got him some sugar free candy and then a friend of mine got him some diabetic bars and sugar free candy. I am so happy with how people have adapted and thought of him. That is seriously what gets me - not the fact we have to deal with diabetes or shots or glucose checks - the fact that people are all thinking of him and keeping us in mind and not making it so I have to be stuck explaining why he can't have something someone gave him. (Geez, did that make any sense?)

So, what do you DO for Easter that doesn't include tons of sugar??? In their baskets the kids (from us, err the Bunny) got Matchbox cars, an Angry Bird pencil kit, 2 snack bags each from my friend's store 6 Silly Monkeys, a small notebook for each, bubbles, playdoh, and Ollie's big present was an Iron Man mining vehicle. As for the eggs- the Starburst were in there, yogurt covered raisins, pistachios, finger flashlights, coins, some cars for Ollie and binkies and nailpolish for Emi.

Surprisingly enough, after breakfast (eggs, cinnamon rolls made from crescents and a couple Starburst thrown in there) he was LOW. Say whaaaaat? I'm glad he had those Starburst, who knows how low he would have been without them!

Anyway, I'm happy to say we conquered our first T1D holiday!

Oh, and a bit of advice? When someone tells you their child has Diabetes 1) don't assume it can be fixed by diet. and 2) DO NOT tell them about your great aunt's boyfriend's daughter's mother in law who had to have a kidney donated to them and then lost a leg or eyesight or whatever. Seriously, just don't do it, ok? KThanks.