Sunday, July 22, 2012

D-Peeps are Everywhere!

This just totally makes me smile. Especially after all the excitement of Friends for Life, and everyone getting to hang out. I love knowing we are all not alone in our journey!

We went on a little vacation last week - well, the kids and I tagged along on Jason's business trip so WE got to play while he worked. Don't feel too sorry for him though, he was in Vegas last week with his brother for some fun. :)

We hit San Francisco and got to see some relatives I hadn't seen in a long time, and our kids got to meet! Nothing like second cousins having a blast. And Adam discovered snails. We don't have those here in the desert...and now I know that if I want to keep him busy for a few hours, I'd just need to import a bucket of them.

Love my weird kid.

So then we headed down to the good ol' O.C., and hit Huntington Beach for some surf and sand.

While the kids are beaching, I took some time to do a little Facebooking. I tagged ourselves in Huntington and I get a message back from none other than Heidi, saying, "Will you be there tomorrow? We are going to be there!"

Of course I say, "Heck YES!" Sure, we live in the same state....a mere one city apart, but real life does not lend a lot of time to get together. So the next best thing is for two D-families to meet up in Cali!

And what a lovely lunch we had! Heidi and her hubby are just two of the nicest, most genuine people you could ever meet and after a little warming up, our kids were acting like little crazy people in the restaurant, having a blast together. It really warmed my heart to see Adam bonding with Jack. And I think Adam is jonesing for a play date with Max one of these days! They showed off their pods, they both had numbers in the 300's pre-lunch (LOL! - I think we were both laughing at how hard it is to maintain fairly normal BG's while on vacation!)


This is our favorite picture. They were just walking along the pier, chatting. Love!


What a blessing it is to have all of these D-mamas in my life. And I know that as Adam gets older, this will be more and more important to him - when he's old enough to go to camp, he'll already have friends there to help him enjoy it even more. Thanks to the DOC, our circle of "family" is bigger than before.


8 comments:

  1. How awesome is that!!! If you ever come to Florida, I want to meet you... PALEEZEE!!!

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    1. Yes, Lora!!! I have quite a few people in Florida that I must meet...I will let you know when we make it there, hopefully in the next few years. :)

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  2. WooHoo for meet ups!!

    And I have to say the snail pic gave me the willies!! ;)

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  3. Matthew would LOVE Adam! Totally what my son would do.

    We might both need therapy before the teenage years are over!!!

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  4. Awesome!! It always warms my heart to hear of D family meet ups.

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  5. I am SO jealous of the D-meet up! Natalie is just as weird as Adam...they would have lots of fun and trouble together I'm sure. We saw 300's on vacation as well....nice to know we weren't alone on that. Thinking the A1C won't be too pretty next time. How did the pod do at the beach with the sand? I'm a little worried about that since we live at the beach.

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    1. He did great with the pod on the beach! No problems whatsoever - it's actually better than with a traditional infusion set - the old one would get clogged with sand when he was unhooked. I can't imagine him having to wear a traditional pump at the beach. And this way he's always connected to insulin. Since you live at the beach, I really think OmniPod was the ONLY option for you! So excited for you to try it!

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  6. fantastic pics, love those smiles! and you can't beat a good d-meet! :)

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