JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

So, with the encouragement of a dear friend who used to work for JDRF and the feeling of needing to DO something about diabetes (beyond learning to manage it for our child), our family will be walking a 5K around Dodger Stadium to raise funds for type 1 diabetes. I sent out the first email last night requesting donations and I cannot believe the outpouring of support. Our friends/family/acquaintances are just amazing. A few will even be joining us. The link to that is here: http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87894877
The last few days of her management have been good. This is our third day of no highs or lows-  and that's a first!  Her body is constantly fluctuating so we are always adjusting her insulin dosages but we've had a good run. (crossing fingers....)

Why I now despise potlucks...

First of all, with three young kids, potlucks are kind of a pain anyhow. I don't mean your typical 4 family potluck, I mean the large gathering, organizational potluck. For whatever reason, there have been a lot of them lately and it causes me enough anxiety that I just don't go. There was a recent PTA potluck event that I felt I could not avoid, so we fed the kids at home before the meeting. That worked well because when there are a jillion other kids around, they don't want to stop to eat anyhow.
Let me also state, because we have to medicate K before she eats carbohydrates, meals in general are arduous for us. What is she really going to eat?? So, potlucks are one level beyond that because we do not control the food there, do not know the ingredients, it's always chaotic (the general drawback to large potlucks) - and like other public outings, I don't really like medicating her (ie insulin SHOT) in public. Yes, I've wrestled with her on the floor of public bathrooms to make that happen, but as that image makes clear, it's just not ideal...