Wishing you and yours a wonderful long weekend.
By way of season’s greetings, a favorite scene from a Christmas classic:
See? You don’t’ have to celebrate Christmas yourself to enjoy this majorly frolicsome film — although you do have to be American, it seems. My German husband didn’t find it funny at all. (Don’t know what you’re missin’, Buddy)
And btw, here’s what that precious Red Ryder BB gun might have looked like if little…
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Happy Mid-Holiday Season, Dear Readers. We had a modest turnout for the DiabetesMine Holiday Survival Stories Contest this year, which wasn’t such a bad thing, as it turns out; we judges still had a hard time choosing winners.
In the end, we tried to focus on situations that “typify” what we PWDs tend to go through at this season.
Four stories, two “good” and two “bad” were selected — although the crossover was quite striking in…
I realize that we haven’t hit Christmas yet this year. And Hanukkah begins tonight at sundown — so maybe you haven’t yet experienced your Best or Worst of the Holidays with Diabetes for this year. But we’re asking anyway: share a story for a chance to win!
The DiabetesMine ‘Tis the Season! Survival Sweepstakes closes for submissions tonight at midnight Pacific. The idea was to gather past experiences in advance, to share with each other…
What? Nobody made annoying comments about your having pie at Thanksgiving last week? I find that hard to believe…
I’m just sure that all of us with diabetes have some Holiday Season stories to share (good, bad, and ugly). You have exactly one more week now to enter the DiabetesMine Holiday Survival Sweepstakes — share your story, and win great prizes* that you will love!
* See? There are some advantages to being diabetic at…
Happy Fourth of July Weekend, Everyone!
In light of yesterday’s post, I felt I should offer some sort of assistance in dealing with the inevitable onslaught of food this holiday weekend. This information is adapted from a great piece by John Crowley, my co-host over at DiabeticConnect, and applies to just about any big-food holiday (aren’t they all?).
Here are John’s tips for getting through the day:
Start the Day Right
Every family has its…