A few weeks ago, Mackenna and I were driving home from an ice cream date and she was asking some questions about her great grandparents. I told her a few things about them and talked about how she’d get to meet all of them in heaven some day. The conversation continued on something like this… “So […]
He wasn’t supposed to be. We were done having children. Not surgically done having children, but with three active kids already and our unwelcome fourth “child”: type 1 diabetes, we had no room for another child. We were done. Our youngest was almost four years old. He was potty trained. We had gotten rid of […]
December 8th, 2017. Mackenna has officially lived half of her life with type 1 diabetes and exactly half without it. Just for today. Tomorrow, she will have lived with type 1 diabetes for longer than she has lived without it. LIVED. She has LIVED with type 1 diabetes. She has lived well. She has learned, […]
We all have hard things. Maybe it’s a diagnosis, like type 1 diabetes, or celiac, or cancer. Maybe it’s a difficult family situation. Maybe you’re in a season of financial stress. Maybe you’ve lost someone and you don’t know how to keep going without them. Maybe you’re lonely, sad, exhausted, frustrated. Maybe, right in this […]
Four years ago today, the bottom fell out from beneath my feet. “I have good news and bad news,” the doctor said. “The good news is that Mackenna is going to be just fine. The bad news is that she has type 1 diabetes.” In some ways, I knew what that diagnosis meant. But four […]
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