Laura & Jo - a very cropped phone shot from Fred's phone

Me and the Littles - Yea, I lost Nate's shirt.  Nice!

My silly girls and my bad hair day!

Jim and Em

Sophie, Elise and Emma

Fred and the girls

Nate and Daddy

I love these shirts!!

Nate had so much fun!

I love this pic of Emma and Elise holding hands :)

100% within goal!!  Woot-Woot!

Thank you, D for a good WDD!

Welcome to

Houston We Have A Problem's

Great PJ World Diabetes Day Giveaway!

This contest comes to you courtesy of PJs for a Cure.



PJs for the Cure are specially designed women's and children's pajama sets from Komar, the #1 sleepwear manufacturer in the country.

Komar donates 100% of all sales of these special PJs to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). <------ LOVE THAT!!

Yep, you read that right! 100%  Isn't that great?!

The wife of Komar CEO Charles Komar was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and thus, Mr. Komar founded PJs for the Cure in an effort  to raise $1 million for JDRF.

 

Well, Komar contacted several of us bloggin' D Mamas with an opportunity to give away free PJs, and we united for a mega giveaway to celebrate World Diabetes Day! It's a Super Sugar Bolus!

(Just so you know...My fellow D Mama bloggers and I are neither getting paid by Komar nor are we receiving free PJs for hosting our giveaway contests. This is simply a fantastic opportunity to spread the word about the great work that Komar is doing to support the research for a cure!)

Leave a comment on this blog post before Saturday, November 13th at noon EST. 

Please include your name.

Only one entry is allowed per person.

The winner will be chosen randomly at www.random.org and announced on Sunday, November 14th.

Don't forget that I'm not the only D Mama celebrating and holding a contest! Komar generously donated 13 pairs of PJs for this World Diabetes Day Super Sugar Bolus!

So, visit my fellow D Mama bloggers listed below and increase your chances of winning! You can enter to win on all 13 blogs!

(But you can only win one pair of PJs. Once you win on one blog, you are disqualified from winning on another blog. We gotta be fair and spread the PJ love!)

Beta Buddies

Candy Hearts

D-Tales

I am Your Pancreas

Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

My Diabetic Child

My Sugar Bugs

Our Diabetic Life

The Princess and The Pump

The Sugar Kids Blog

The Superhero and The Princess

The We CARA Lot Blog

Remember, you only have until tomorrow, Saturday, November 13th at noon to enter The Great PJ World Diabetes Day Giveaway on all of these blogs. So, start clicking and commenting!

We D Mama bloggers will announce one winner per hour, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 9 p.m., on World Diabetes Day, Sunday, November 14th.

And, if you don't win, won't you please consider purchasing a pair of PJs for the Cure? It's for a good cause!

We took a little vacation and now I am beyond behind in bloggerville.  These awesome peeps are participating in the NaBloPoMo...... this month

Lora - My Diabetic Child 
Rachael - Pumpsley and Me

I'm a day late for dblog day but I still want to participate so here we go - - -
The Houston family took our 1st family vacation since D came into our lives (we returned home late last night) and while gone I thought and thought about the 6 things that I would like people to know about diabetes. Ok, maybe I didn't think about it that much but here is what Jim and I came up with on our way back home.

1) The obvious #1 ---- There are several 'types' of diabetes ---- the most commonly known are Type 1 and Type 2.  When I say commonly known I mean that I believe people know that there is a type 1 and a type 2 but they have no idea what the difference is between the two.  Our immediate family (The Houston Five) is living with Type 1 or Juvenile Diabetes.  Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease.  Nate's pancreas does not work.  Period.

2) Type 1 diabetes cannot be controlled with diet and exercise. Although diet and exercise are very important for everyone to stay healthy it has nothing to do with 'controlling' type 1 diabetes. 

3) There is no way to prevent type 1 diabetes --- Nate did not do anything to cause his diabetes and his humongous piece of birthday cake on his 1st birthday had nothing to do with his diagnosis 2 months later.

4) It's more than a shot!!  Yes, insulin dependent diabetics do require shots of insulin or insulin pumps to infuse the insulin into their bodies BUT there is SO much more to it.  The amount of insulin required throughout the day is a very carefully calculated amount that changes often in growing children.  Insulin is also given with each meal based on the amount of carbohydrates eaten.  Even that is not as simple as it sounds.  There are even more complicated calculations used to determine how much insulin should be given for every gram of carbohydrate eaten and even that changes depending on how much fiber or fat is involved and the ratio is often different for each and every meal.  So, all of that to say diabetes is much more than just a shot --- it is extremely complicated.

5) Diabetes is a family affair.  Our son, Nate has diabetes but it certainly effects the entire family.  Nate's sisters worry about him, his health and what he is eating constantly.  Jim and I work hard at keeping Nate safe, healthy and happy without disrupting the entire family but sometimes that is just not possible. Everything stops when Nate's blood sugar is low, meal plans change when Nate's blood sugar is high, and it seems everyone in the family always has an ear and an eye on our youngest little one.  We do the best we can at keeping our lives as normal as possible but the fact is that diabetes controls a lot of our decision making and ultimately that effects everyone in the family.

6) We hate it when you say --- "he looks so ______" 
you can insert the following words ----> happy, healthy, or normal.
Yes, Nate is all of those things!   Diabetes is invisible.  You cannot see Nate's diabetes and although I often post pics of him sporting his OmniPod and DexCom in reality most days you cannot see either one or his disease. He is happy, healthy and a very normal 2-year old little boy but he does have diabetes and it is sometimes very challenging.  Just because we make it look easy does not mean that it is. 

If you are interested in T-Shirts for WDD - check out We CARA Lot Blog ---- Nicole created an awesome Tshirt design for World Diabetes Day!



And . . . I think that's all I've got for today!