Our Diabetic Life

My laptop died in my arms yesterday. I think I died a little bit along with it. It was my first laptop. I started this blog on it. I discov...

In an effort to clean up some of my real estate...I've followed the lead of some of my friends, and made a separate blog for my blog rol...

He is my squishy. He is everything a 7 year old should be. He is innocent, he is adorable, and he is funny. He is my baby. Everything he ...

I seriously have nothing to blog about. And you know what? I think that is blogworthy. Usually I sit down at the computer and throw up some ...

Susan is one of my dearest friends. We were introduced by a mutual friend a few years ago and forged an instant bond. Sure, we both have bee...

Often, it's like we are banging our head against the wall...hoping for a different result every time we go in for the next bang. "M...

We weren’t doing anything, I swear. We were just strolling down the boardwalk of life when BAM…the bullet train swept us up! Strep. The Stre...

I checked L’s sugar for him today and I asked him straight out…”Did that hurt?” “Nope,” he said. “No?” I said. “Nope,” he said again. Wait a...

Abraham Lincoln said: “When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you usually will.” Meri says: “If you look for the bad in...

Basal is a curious thing. It is the silent hero in the war we fight every day. Drip Drip Drip...it is easy to forget it is there. It is auto...

What do you do when you hit rock bottom? What do you do when the wind is sucked right out of you and you’re just lost? You can’t find the pe...

The most awesome thing I have done in spite of diabetes? Hands down, easiest question ever... These two little munchkins right here. As most...

Last Saturday I had the honor of attending, and participating as faculty at the TCOYD conference in Santa Rosa, California. Amy Tenderich o...

Our Diabetic Life is in charge of the Blogger Basal this month! What is Blogger Basal you ask? Well, it is a sampling of blogs throughout th...

Captains Log: Valentines Day…the REAL Valentines Day, was wonderful…the kids had the day off thanks to the broke California School System, s...

Three weeks ago I marched into the pharmacy and bought out all the Nyquil, Dayquil, Tylenol Flu and Mucinex in the store. I went up to the c...

A few months ago our family discovered Lenny the Lion. He was introduced through a carb counting app produced by Medronic . If you haven’t c...

TCOYD (Taking Control of Your Diabetes) is a charitable organization whose sole purpose is to motivate those that have diabetes to take a m...

I’ve had my alarm clock for 18 years. It was a wedding present from my cousin Todd. Todd was one of those cousins who was more like a brothe...