Tailgate

Well, it's Friday night and we are at the B High School tailgating with friends before the game. We have way too much food laid out already but more people come with desserts, side, and drinks to join us. I watch as the guys are playing a game of football in the grass and the girls are gathered around laughing and talking. I have been trying to get Emma to be the main person responsible for getting all of her diabetic stuff together and making sure she has enough snacks in case she goes low. So when it comes time to prick before dinner and she doesn't have any strips for her meter...what do you you? After searching through your car, and finding many other things that had been lost, but no strips, you get inventive. I started asking around if any of the other diabetic kids had been seen at any of the pre-game festivities. NONE!! I'm about to have a "come apart" when a friend says to me, "Go see the paramedics in the ambulance, they will have a kit"! So off we go. The paramedics were there a bit late (Emma had already eaten dinner and we bolused for her food but still needed to see if she was high) but we finally found them.

Jewel and the guy paramedic (couldn't understand his name) were very sweet to her and took her blood sugar for me. She was 81 so we got some carbs for her for the long night of running around she had ahead of her.





We had a great time at the game, Nolan and Emma ran around with friends the whole time. They came to check in every once in a while but other than that we didn't see them much. This was B's first home game so everyone was there. It was so good to see the kids having such fun. I got a pic of Emma with some friends but Nolan didn't spend enough time sitting still for one.



The game...we left at the 4th quarter but the score was 24 to nothing.

WAR EAGLE

 

boys are off to the Auburn/Southern Miss game today. My dad had been given season tickets to Auburn games..which in my neck of the woods is a BIG deal.  He gave Todd and Nolan the tickets to todays game and Nolan is so excited about going to the game with his dad. His football game was rained out so now they will be able to get there in time to see the whole thing.

post game pics

  

So today is girls day!!! Emma and I are going to go shopping for some clothes and then maybe take in a movie. I'm going to forget that there is at least 6 loads of laundry to do although I will have to get groceries at some point. When I walk in the kitchen the children's nursery rhyme about Old Mother Hubbard comes to mind.

We had a fun time shopping! I found some things I had been looking for to go with some outfits for Emma. We also hit the bookstore. I LOVE that Emma loves to read. We sat on the couch and read together before getting groceries. I'm working on The Timetravelor's Wife and she is reading The People of Sparks; which is the second book to the City of Embers.

My boys Growing UP

Todd took Nolan down to Grampa Dancy's farm this past weekend to mow. Nolan is 12 years old but has not, as of yet, mowed our lawn yet. I LOVE to mow and just have not been able to share the responsibility with him. Our yard isn't steep but I do have to put some muscle into it to get it over the slopes we have. 

Nolan was so excited to get to mow on the riding lawn mower. Todd said he did a really good job and even talked Grampa Dancy into letting him get on it again and ride around. I so appreciate that he asked him to mow - he even paid him. I know that he's at the age where he needs to learn and take responsibility for things like this. Nolan has quite a few chores at home and does them, usually, with a great spirit.

I forgot to give Todd the camera so that he could get a picture, but I somehow pictured him looking like this....

I was trying to find a pic when he was standing up on the mower with the hat in his hand.