Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here’s what you’re supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not forward) this post and paste into a new e-mail or blog. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that sent it to you……Tis the Season to be NICE! (Found here)

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Bags are great, but it is more fun watching paper be torn

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial

3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the weekend after The Mr’s birthday

4. When do you take the tree down? New Years Day.. unless I don’t feel like it

5. Do you like eggnog? Not really

6. Favorite gift received as a child? My froggy necklace

7. Hardest person to buy for? FIL & SMIL

8. Easiest person to buy for? The little ones

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes in a snow globe… it was a gift

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail! Only way to do it!

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? The plastic travel bag from MIL last year

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Story

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? I usually start in September after school starts.. this year not so much

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes

15.Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? I love all the snacky stuff

16. Lights on the tree? Yep.. multi-colored only!!!

17. Favorite Christmas song? Carol of the Bells

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? It will depend on when my sister can be with us. If that falls on Christmas Day then we go to my parents house 20 minutes away

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen. Comet and Cupid Donner and Blitzen and of course Rudolph Heh! And a bit of trivia… Donner and Blitzen were originally called Dunder and Blixem

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? We have a start and a Father Christmas.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Ugh! We used to do one Christmas Eve and then the rest Christmas Morning, but since we go to my SIL’s on Christmas Eve then have enough to open then so the rest are done on Christmas Morning. Plus The Karate Kid still believes in Santa. At least so far

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Bitchy shoppers

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? All the ones my Grandmother gave us over the years before she passed

 

And just go there… what/when would I choose?

This was taken in a lagoon in Cancun back in 2006

How ‘bout you?

 

A while back I was searching for something diabetes related and came across this site that had quotes from parents of diabetic kids. I wish I could find it again so I could send it to my inlaws. One of the quotes was something along the lines of stop eating all those vegetables and have some cookies. Another was - “You’re not going to bed until you finish your ice cream!”

I have been tweaking the Karate Kids insulin in the mornings. He was always low at his lunch time check. I had him at a good balance before halloween, which threw it off a hair, he would spike, but we knew why. So he was going along ok until last week, without candy he was seeing some higher numbers at lunch, so yesterday I added a .5 of a unit. Guess what? I got a phone call that he was low. So I decided I was right all along and went back to what I was giving him before. Then I realized that the juice boxes I bought had 10 less grams of carbs than the ones I been buying. So was I right? Or was it because he got the carbs he is supposed to instead of the extra I had been giving him… or is it something different entirely… It gets so frustrating because I feel like I am force feeding him half the time. Don’t get me wrong he is a good eater, it is just hard sometimes to come up with 60 carbs for a meal. We had it cut down at his check up a couple months ago, with an adjustment to the insulin to coincide, but we have had to go back to the 60 carbs (30+ for snacks I was doing 40 for his morning snack at school until I bought the wrong juice boxes) and I am back to force feeding again. I hate for the hour before he leaves for school to be all about me pushing him to finish and him fighting me. It sucks! And the thing that is most frustrating is I don’t know how long this will last. He is still considered to be in “Honeymoon” so any day now that could all change… or a year from now… who knows?

Anyway I just really wish I could find that page again. It was so dead on what I go through on a daily basis.