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Twelve of 2012

It wouldn’t be the end of the year without a “top” list post, would it?

Some of these are firsts for us, some are exciting, some are unwanted. But here are twelve diabetes-related things that have impacted our family.

Top 12 of 2012

1. It took tremendous effort as a family for me to write Kids First, Diabetes Second. I wrote each Sunday either at the library, locked into my home office, or with the laptop perched on my knees in bed. My husband and kids were very understanding. Q is so proud of m...

{Kids First & Other Places} December

Reviews

The Motherhood

“This book will tell you everything that doctors and specialists will not. Leighann doesn’t explain how to manage the medical aspects of diabetes, but rather, how to avoid allowing the medical aspects of the disease to take over daily family life. She stresses the crucial point that children should be children first, and children who happen to live with diabetes second.”

Read the entire review on The Motherhood website.

Other Places You’ll Find Me

As a Child Grows When you t...

Happy Winter Solstice!

Hello. I guess the Mayans were wrong.

Here is an amazing video taken of the lunar eclipse on this day in 2010.

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse 2010 from William Castleman on Vimeo.

“Time lapse video of Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT) from Gainesville Florida. This is the image stabilized version of the video originally posted on December 21, 2010 at: http://www.vimeo.com/18046748 The music is Claude Debussy’s Nocturnes: Sirè...

{There is More to Life Than Diabetes} Rapping Mum

(Not about diabetes today, but I love these videos.)

You know I like some rapping mamas, especially ones who drive a swagger wagon.

Watch this rapping British mum. I love the line about sleep deprivation and the one about her designer couch.





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I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time in my mini. And by mini, I mean the used mini van we purchased earlier this year.

Thanks to new mom Gina for the video.

Thanks new mom Gina for shari...

{Our Story} What A D-Mom Won’t Do

Sunday night I started readying the kids backpacks for the week. I knew I had several things I needed to remember before we left the house Monday morning.

Snack for my son’s class (frozen yogurt tubes).

Small cooler by the garage door so I wouldn’t forget said yogurt tubes.

Two bricks of juice boxes in Q’s backpack because the teacher mentioned on Friday that they were running low. (Oh, just made a pun!)

Library books in each kids’ backpack because heaven forbid they not get to check out a new on...