Happy 10th Birthday to this blog! If I remember correctly, the very first blog post on June 21, 2012 was titled CELEBRATION and was celebrating The Girl's diabetes diagnosis 21 years ago from that date. So yes, this year is celebrating 31 years!
There's probably no need for me to tell you, my regular blog readers, how proud I am of The Girl that made me a mama. If you read this blog at all, you know that already.
As I experience this day, little did I know 31 years ago that today would hold a sweet healthy-with-a-disease girl, a fine son-in-law and a precious little girl that calls me Neema. My cup overflows on this day and still, after 31 years and after 10 years of writing about this on this particular day, my eyes still get wet. It's just something a mama can't control. The "wet" is a joyful wet.
You've heard it and heard it over and over so I won't tell you again about my girl. She is a joy.
I'm grateful for a son-in-law and a grand baby who knows that there's a disease but are good to understand and help when it's needed. I'm thankful for the ability to have learned about diabetes those years ago. Maybe I'm not so glad that as years go by the powers that be change the rules. Back then a normal fasting blood sugar was between 80 and 120. Now lab reports expect to be under a 98. Well, really? Come on....
Yesterday The Grandbaby was here and we were changing around some furniture and goods for "her" bedroom. It is now a guest/play room. It's still a work in progress but close to being finished. The Grandbaby helped me all day long. She got down and got stuff from under the bed, she dusted, she organized....and yes, she earned herself some shopping money. She worked patiently hard for a 6 year old. As we were sorting, there was a little pink case that had a purpose, I don't know what. When she saw the case, she remarked, "Look! It's somebody's medicine box cover." Well duh. She calls her mommy's insulin pump a medicine box as she has been taught to do.
This past weekend The Girl also had some sort of stomach bug. She made the remark that she was so glad to have the pump and that she couldn't imagine what I had to do when she was younger and had a bug by giving her spoonfuls of regular sprite every ten minutes. The Girl has done numerous research trials the past few years by wearing sensors in both arms, testing sugars, fasting....many things involved but in hopes of finding a cure.
Yes, we are thankful for advances and all the research to hopefully find a cure for this disease in the future. Most of all we are thankful for the unfailing provisions of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Without HIM we can do nothing.
After I taught an adult class of VBS one night and studied a bit on hope, I found myself a new favorite scripture. I find myself reading it every single day and trying to make it in my memory. It's Romans 4:20, 21 and goes like this:
"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
Oh, and just an added bit of trivia, The Girl's middle name? HOPE.
Praise be to the Lord!
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