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Christmasy

December 14, 2016 April Sandvig
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You know, the normal kid stuff is hard. Constantly cleaning up messes, getting into everything, pushing your buttons, throwing your favorite plant off the dinner table. Did I mention cleaning up messes? Man it's hard to keep it together when you're already exhausted from diabetes. You take them on an outing for only like two hours and you come home and could sleep for a week but you can't because his blood sugar isn't cooperating so you have to stay up and check it every hour.  We have been trying to do some Christmas things but I think all we have accomplished so far is getting our tree from the farm (previous post) and decorating the house.  But now we have snow!!!  Which just makes everything magical and Christmasy (is that a word?) without me having to do anything. Ha! Even our family of quail that come visit every winter has been fluttering about out in the snow.  So what am I going to do?  I'm going to stay inside and watch the snow with my boys.  I'm not going to feel guilty about not taking Ocean on more outings.  I'm going to bake Christmas cookies and let Ocean decorate them.  And I'm going to color my Christmas coloring book. And read. And cuddle. Lots of cuddling.

And again, let go of the guilt.  We are together.  We are as healthy as we can be.  And we are loved.

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Christmas light

December 3, 2016 April Sandvig
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As we come to the end of diabetes awareness month, I want to once again refer to legend Leonard Cohan. As you remember he said, "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Not to create-but illume a hidden part of us whose beauty might otherwise have passed unnoticed. We all have our cracks. Let us use those cracks and imperfections to let the light in and shine through us. We already have it within us. Iknow in my heart that the cracks within Ocean will help him become the beautiful person is meant to be. We can already see the light in his joy and laughter. As you can see our hunt for a Christmas tree with Grandpopz was filled with wonder and light. Not everything is easy - actually nothing is. I felt overwhelmed with the thought of leaving our hobbit hole and going out for a tree, and there were a couple cracks in the adventure but as you can see from the photos and video it was worth it.

Oh so worth it!

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