Happy November!

Day 1 of NaBloPoMo

So, I have taken on this CRaZy task of blogging every day for the month of November.  There are some other D Mama’s that will be doing this as well, so I am in fantastic company!  If you get a chance head over and check out Wendy at Candy Hearts, Tracy at The Superhero and The Princess, Hallie at The Princess and The Pump , Meri at Our Diabetic Life, Jen at I am You Pancreas, Lora at My Diabetic Child, Nicole at We Cara Lot, Heather at Sweet to the Soul  and Jen at I am Your Pancreas.  (If I missed anyone, please leave me a comment, and I will link to you on my next post! =)

I have a couple of reasons for choosing November to do NaBloPoMo (which you can choose do to any month you like).  November is a pretty special month for us.  It’s a HUGE month for family.  With Thanksgiving in November we are reminded to count our blessings and to really appreciate the gifts that God has given us.  I am excited to explore those gifts – and share them with you all.  November is also Diabetes Awareness Month.  And, for our family, it marks an anniversary…. This November 10^th will mark 2 years of Type 1 Diabetes in our lives.   I plan to celebrate some major accomplishments we have made… we have come such a VERY long way in 2 years.  I am proud of that!

So, as I said in my last post…. Good Things To Come. 

I will see you all tomorrow!!

Back… But Different?

This has been an interesting month for me.  I have not posted in awhile, nor have I been keeping up with the DOC much.  I miss my blog and I REALLY miss my D Mama’s, but being separated from it all has been good for me, I think.  I was getting VERY emerged in Diabetes -  and Diabetes in our lives, and what Diabetes has done to our lives, to the point that I think that focusing to that extreme was getting to be unhealthy for me. 

Someone said to me not to long ago that it’s all about balance.  They were referring to my struggles in being a working mom – that I need to strike a balance between work and home life.  But it also struck me as being very true about needing to strike a balance between being a MOM and being a D Mama.  I love my kids.  They along with Sugar Daddy are the light of my life – my Sun, if you will.  The other things that go on in my life, including my job, are all just planets that rotate around them.  Diabetes is one of the planets… it’s kind of a big planet (like, Jupiter size!!)…but here’s the thing:  It was encroaching on my Sun… and I think I finally realized that it was time to put it in its place.  Knock it back on its orbit and tell it to back off a bit.

So that’s what I did… and it felt good.

Now I am ready to cautiously start blogging again… but my blogging will no longer be Diabetes centered.  I am sure there will be posts that are all about D… but there will also be posts that are all about Sweet Girl, and her dancing… and posts about Sugar Boy and how well he is doing in school and how the capacity of both his mind and his heart astonish me every day… and posts  that are all about Sugar Daddy and his amazing talent… and posts about Katy the CRAZY kitty that has taken her rightful place as Queen of the House…

All in all – Good Things To Come!! =)