Day 3 Already

So I woke up early feeling pretty bad with a blood sugar (BS) of 208. After 2 regular size cups of coffee with sugar substitute and dry regular creamer, I checked my sugar and it was 335! What's up with that? I once read from Adele Puhn, M.S., C.N.S. and author of The Carb-Careful Solution, and I'll sub phrase, your body does not know real sugar from fake sugar, it will ALL raise your blood sugar! I tend to agree with her because I took 4 units (cc) of Novolog (N), drank the coffee, my sugar went up, and then I took 12 cc of N. Waited till noon and took my sugar again and the result was 251! Sooooo I took another shot of 8 cc of N and waited till 2:00 and checked once again. It read 154 and now at 3 I feel somewhat better but I need, really need a nap.

My grandson spent the night in the hospital. He's 9 months now. He is pulling himself up on furniture and crawling so fast, I know he can't wait to run!! He swallowed a penny and it got lodged in the throat/chest area. They took him this morning, had to put an IV in his arm, sedated him and went in to get it. Thank the powers that be that he has such a good mom who was right on top of the situation!!

Hubby starts his vacation so time to work on the house! The garden is seeing lots of wear and tare! I'm having a problem with my raspberries. That is such a bummer. That's another thing on my list! I have to look up what to do about them. Does anyone know and want to share?

Well off to mark some stuff off my list before picking up the hubby.

Remember to Enjoy Every Second of Every Minute of Every Day!

Ok! Here it goes!

Well, I heard that's it's better to start a new habit during the week and since Wednesday fell on Sept. 1st, I thought it a perfect day to start a new chapter! So I am starting in a bad place. I know I should not have let it go this long however, when you have to push yourself to do anything, things (stress) can get ya down if you let it. I guess I'm tired of letting it affect me so I decided to change! Sounds easy doesn't it? The hardest thing is to decide, to make better choices, so that's what my intentions are! That is why I have started writing again.
I have a lot on my plate right now.
I am helping keep my sister sane and calm while she deals with some very trying challenges in her life.
I am in the midst of fundraising for JDRF, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and so far that is going good. I do have one thing to make a decision about and that is: One gas station/store in my neighborhood said that they would most certainly sell shoes (JDRF's signature icon) for me. That was such great news, however, when I went to purchase something from there......no shoes were in sight and they didn't ask me if I wanted to buy one! Now I don't quite know what to do about that.
I just got through canning tomatoes for our garden. I had help from a friend for the second batch. And the hubby helped with the third. Thank goodness! I 'bout killed my back doing them so I'm thinkin' this might be the last year for salsa. : ) The first and third batch was Salsa!!! One peach and one batch pineapple mango!!! Yum yum are they going to be good this winter!
I have this sad connection with food!! lol I love it! It DOES NOT love me back though!
Another item I got caught up in was my son's issue with a local Stop N Go in his neighborhood kicked him out of the store because of his guide dog!!! Would not let the man come into the store with his EYES!! That was a story on the 10:00 Fox2Detroit New last night.
I am planning a murder mystery dinner to benefit JDRF and since I have never done anything like this before, it will have some bumps in the road!
And the last thing is making my cards. A family member told me that Hallmark sells or has a section for handmade cards, so I am finding out info on that! Is that everything? Oh of course not! I still have to drive my hubby to work and pick him up, clean the house, fix dinner, and watch the clock so I take my sugars regularly. Ok, I'm tired now that I wrote it all down on ?paper? LOL
So my sugars are up in the 200 to 300 range and it must come down if I want to live a life of productivity! Been doing a pretty good job except for that raspberry (from our garden)/apple pie I mad yesterday. Man O man was that good!!! And man did my body hate me for that. I'm still paying today, which was not a good decision! Each day we learn how to "rise above our raising" as Dr Phil says! Been eating a lot of salad, thank goodness I love salad! It has lots of veggies in it cuz I love veggies!
More tomorrow. Remember to enjoy every second of every day!

A New Start!

What is great about another day??........it can be a new start! And that is what tomorrow will bring a new start! I will be blogging at least a couple of sentences each day along with my blood sugars and diet! I know that diet is a bad word but it is short for "starting a new way of life" !!! I feel I am ready for a "do-over". So stay tuned! It's gonna be a ride!!!!

What a lovely day before the cold sets in again!

Well I going to try this again! I am having a really hard time adjusting to the day shift. I don't understand why it is so difficult this time. I'm sure it would help if I went to bed at a decent hour! lol I spent alot of time on facebook this morning and on the phone. And now it's 10:55 AM, and here i am on the phone again ( on hold ) with the mortgage company. You would think that they would have our info in front of them since they called me!!! Geez, sometimes you just get tired of going with the flow when it's the same headache for 18 months!!! Time to move on.

We have gotten so spoiled this past week with weather so nice you almost want to plant the garden! Not so fast though....this is Michigan and that would really be a waste of energy! We have not gotten our last snow and ice storm yet!

This was from time gone by! You never know what your gonna get like a box of chocolate! Isn't that kewl how the bud got caught in the ice?

So I was watching The View this morning, cuz now it's 12:51PM, and they were going to show a sneak peek of a clip from Grey's Anatomy. So they cut to it and WHAM....my screen freezes up!!! Damn! That's AT&T u-Verse. It only does that when you really want to see something!
It appears as if this day wants to fight me, doesn't it? I'm NOT going to let it though. It's the last beautiful day for a little while and I don't want to fight with or about anything.

I called the Red Cross to volunteer as a babysitter instructor and was going to meet the woman yesterday but she had a family emergency and had to leave. I hope her grandpa is doing better.

Here is a beautiful Chiffon Pop-Art Handkerchief Top pattern:
Design by Paula Smith-Danell


Quick Tip

Pattern Option: For a quick variation, cut or tear fabric to 51 x 50 inches. Stitch a 1/2-inch hem on all sides and omit instructions for the contrast trim.



Sew this poncho-style cover-up top from a rectangle of chiffon fabric. Paula has included some useful tips for sewing with silky fabrics along with her wonderful pattern.


Estimated Time
2 1/2 hours

Finished size
One size fits most

Materials

45-inch-wide silk chiffon fabric:
1 3/4 yards for body*
1 1/2 yards for contrast
Silk pins
French curve
View-through ruler
Basic sewing supplies and equipment
*1/3 yard will be used for squaring edges and testing fabric.

Preparation
Test fabric's ability to tear along the grain line by making a clip in the selvage edge 1 1/2 inches from the cut edge and at least 1 inch deep. Grasp both edges securely. Pull gently and see if the fabric will tear along the cross grain. Limited puckering can be pressed out using an iron set on medium heat with steam. If fabric will not tear or there is excessive puckering or pulled threads, then square-cut the edge of the fabric by pulling a weft (cross-grain) thread.

Cutting
Tear or square-cut fabric as explained in Preparation.

From silk chiffon for body:


Measure 50 inches along selvage edge and tear or square-cut so fabric measures 50 x 45 inches.

From contrasting silk chiffon:


Tear or square-cut two 50 x 6-inch strips along the straight of grain (selvages).
Fold remaining fabric on the bias. Pin and press fold. Use a view-through ruler to mark a 1 x 28-inch strip along the fold (Figure 1). Cut along marked line for bias binding.

Assembly Note: Refer to Assembly Diagram (below) throughout.


Turn under and stitch a 1/2-inch hem on cut edges of body.


With wrong sides together, fold body piece in half, matching hemmed edges. Pin fold and press lightly for shoulder fold. Unfold, then fold again, matching selvage edges. Pin this fold and press lightly near center for center front/back fold.


Using air- or water-soluble marking pen, mark center front fold 2 inches from pressed shoulder fold; mark center back fold 1/2 inch from shoulder fold (Figure 2).

Mark shoulder fold 4 1/2 inches from center front/back fold. Using a French curve, draw the neck curve for the front, connecting marks at center front and shoulder (Figure 3).

Using a French curve, mark a line connecting the mark at the center back fold to the shoulder fold mark (Figure 4).

Cut out neck opening and mark center back fold line at the neck edge. Beginning at center back, with right sides together and raw edges even, pin bias binding around neck edge, leaving an extra 1 inch beyond center back mark at beginning and end for center back seam allowance.

With right sides together, stitch center back seam in binding (Figure 5). Trim excess. Press. Sew binding to neck edge using a 3/8-inch seam allowance. Clip seam allowance 1/8 inch deep at shoulder curves to ease binding into these areas.
Press seam allowance toward binding. Carefully trim excess allowance. Edge-stitch binding 1/8 inch from seam line, catching seam allowance. Turn binding inside neckline. Pin in place and press lightly from wrong side. Beginning at center back, with binding on top, top stitch 3/8 inch from neckline edge. Press.


Pin right side of each contrast strip to wrong side of body along one selvage edge, with edges even, allowing contrast strip to extend at least 1/2 inch on each end of body (Figure 6). Sew, using a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Press seam allowance toward body.
Press under 1/2 inch on remaining long edge of contrast strip. Fold strip with right sides together and stitch across ends so stitching lines are even with body hems (Figure 7).

Turn and press. Pin contrast fabric over body seam allowance so edges of contrast fabric are even. Edge-stitch 1/8 inch from edge of fold (Figure 8).

Fold body with wrong sides together along shoulder seam. Measure 13 1/2 inches from each end. Mark 13 1/2-inch lines parallel with ends of garment. Stitch along line, securing beginning and ending of stitching. Remove basting threads.
And here is your finished project!
Well life is just happening as it should cuz it is! And all is well at this minute in time.

Everyone remember to enjoy every second of your day!

Just a beautiful day!!!

When there's a bunch of sunshine doesn't it make everything ok again?

Had a very busy week. My son came out on the train and I picked him up Tuesday early afternoon. We had a nice visit with Grandma while she got her hair and nails done. Then we picked up the hubby and helped out a work friend with his truck that had broken down. Later we had roasted chicken, taters, corn, carrots, and green beans! Big dinner for a Tuesday night!! Then we got ready for the big appointment at U of M. Got the showers, the paperwork, and everything the child brought with him together cuz I was takin' him home after the very early appointments. Only that's not what happened!.......He woke me up at 12:30 AM with what he thought was a heart attack!! Yikes!!! OMG I was as freaked out as he was! His blood pressure was 205 over 105 and we were both scared! So EMS was called and he described his pain as pressure just right under the sternum. We (hubby too) went to wait with him in the ER to get the results of the tests. Good news was nothing showed on the EKG but the chest ex ray did show a bubble of air just at the bottom of the sternum. Then we knew, IT WAS GAS! Thank goodness! They kept him overnight to observe him. When the heart doc came in with the news that the enzyme tests had showed no damages to the heart occured they released him. We were lucky enough to get an appointment at U of M with the kidney specialist on Friday. At least he didn't waste his trip and we got ok news from the specialist. He can go ahead with the heart cath with the understanding that it may put his kidneys at risk, but the odds are in his favor about 70/30. He says if it puts him into renal failure, he can be put on the transplant list and receive a new kidney and pancreas, and that will make him DIABETIC FREE!!! From his mouth to God's ears! He was told by the heart doc, the kidney doc, and the mom (me), to never hesitate to call EMS if it happens again. He is at high risk for cardio problems because of the diabetes, so he should never feel bad about calling EMS if he feels strange or different! He said he felt like an idiot and hubby just came up with a new nickname (bubble boy) for him after assuring him better to be safe than dead! Let that be a lesson to all of us!

We also learned that his step daughter may have cancer again! She has to go to Children's Hospital on the 11th for a MRI. We are praying that the nose bleeds and headaches are from something else. I hate to see her fight that battle again! Please keep Breanna in your prayers.

As always, when it rains, it pours. What we must remember is how we observe and deal with our challenges is very important to not only us but to the world as a whole!


Everyone remember to ENJOY every second of your day!