Mmmm Breakfast

The most important meal of the day! For my "extra sweet" Nicolas, it is also a chance to show off his culinary carb-counting skills. He likes eggs... especially scrambled, because he can make them himself!

And, Nicolas has a secret ingredient... Soy bacon! Yup... the stuff you sprinkle on your salad.

He loves to cook, and we have been encouraging his master chef status since he was diagnosed at age five. He will know, when he goes off to college, how to cook for himself. And, it's a great way to impress dates without spending a whole lot of money...important in college!!

So, today, we share one of his favorite kid recipes... You'll need a grown-up to kind of supervise, so they don't... ugh... I can't even think about it. !

Scrambles.... Yeah, eggs, water and bacon bits. Scramble (Nico likes to use my Pampered Chef whisk instead of a fork, and we use water instead of milk, but you do what's best for you)

Grease your pan... we use Pam or an Olive Oil spritzer, some people swear by real butter... "The secret," Nicolas says, "is to push everything to the middle all the time. When they look like egg-clouds, you're done". Brilliant, isn't he???

They love these "Nick" eggs. They eat them for dinner, sometimes with cheese, sometimes without, sometimes with biscuits, sometimes in a breakfast burrito!

Next up... block parties, carnivals and the like (acck!! We'll tackle Disney, too, just not until after we've been...)

Thanks for reading! Stay Sweet!

Fun with Diabetic Kids

When my son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, my reaction was probably pretty typical. I cried. I thought they were wrong. I asked everyone who came in the same questions, hoping this time for a better answer. "He'll outgrow it, right?" "Could it be something else?" "Are you SURE it's diabetes?"

It was a rough few days. If you're reading this, it was probably a rough few days for you, too.

My Nicolas, though, was unfazed. He played with the buttons on the bed. He ate in bed, he watched cartoons, with his hands interlocked behind his head, and said, "Ahhh... this is the life". He went to the game room in the hospital. He met the dogs that come in to play with the kids. Unless he was actually getting a shot or having his blood sugar tested, he was in little kid heaven.

He was five. For a while, we didn't go anywhere. We ate at home, we played at home, if he had a cough I kept him home from school.

After a while, we started going places again. This past Thanksgiving, we went to Florida. Nicolas went to Sea World with my mom. He can do anything and go anywhere any other kid can go, and we'll talk about great places for kids with diabetes and less dLife friendly places.

He's eight now, and we have learned... OH, have we learned. My hope is to share what we've learned and how we've learned it, to create a place where parents and kids can share their stories, recipes, jokes, fears, triumphs and hope for a cure.

I will try to post daily, I look forward to your comments to make this a better journey for all of us.