Diabetes Burnout: Overcoming the Repetition of Caregiving Wake up, check blood sugar, count the carbs, administer insulin…rinse and repeat! Alarm beeps, low blood sugar, grab the apple juice, wait 15 minutes, check CGM again, arrow moving up, give a snack…..rinse and repeat! Life as a type 1 parent As parents or caregivers of children with…
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read moreTRAVEL: Packing List {for Kids} Are you hitting the road or the blue skies for the Christmas holiday? Do you often find yourself scrambling around, trying to make sure you’ve packed everything for yourself and your kids? Do your children require more than the average child when leaving home, even for a few days? If…
read moreParenting & Planning If you’ve been following our social media handle @2amparenting, you may have already caught on to some new content and even a few new faces in the comments. Recently, I decided to merge two of the things I love most in life–parenting + planning! Let’s be honest, I’m a planner girl at…
read moreJournaling: A Family Affair In our book 2am Parenting, we share how journaling was one thing that helped us deal with our emotions and push through. As our kids have gotten older, we’ve realized that it’s important to check in with each other. We know that spending quality time together is important for nurturing any…
read moreIt’s Our Anniversary (cue the music)! Did the song by Tony! Toni! Tone! just play in your mind or was it just us? September marks our 10 year wedding anniversary and if you would have told us then what we would have endured along the way, we would not have believed you for a second. …
read moreAs Type 1 parents, we were immediately thrown into carb counting, insulin ratios, diabetes management devices, extra doctor visits to the Endocrinologist, high and low blood sugar management etc. etc. etc, from sun up to sun down and all seconds in between. No one told us how managing an illness for our child would directly…
read moreThe Other Kid. In conversations about caring for a child with a chronic illness, we often forget about the other kid– the sibling or siblings to the child with the illness. When a child is diagnosed we, as parents or caregivers, go all in as we’re learning any and everything that has to do with…
read moreThere’s So Much Stuff! Let me preface this first by proclaiming that I am an organized person by nature. Things not having a place or things not being organized will drive me crazy! Now that that has been said, when my son was diagnosed with type one diabetes, I was not prepared for the…
read moreOnly the Strong Will Survive. You’ll be ok. You’re a strong person. I’m sure you can handle this. If we had a dollar for every time we heard one of these phrases. People mean well, and may even believe what they are saying about us to be true, but if they only knew how complex…
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