First Date

Do you remember your first date? Did you have sweaty palms? Did you recheck yourself in the mirror 1,000 times before your date arrived? Did you change your outfits at least 5 times? Did you ever pinch yourself to see if this was really happening?

I know you are probably thinking what does this have to do with all that has been going on in the Duke household. Plus isn't Samantha Grace only 13 months old?! Well, I have to admit the emotions that Joshua and I have been going through over the past week have been much like that of a first date. We have gone through sweaty palms, hot flashes/cold flashes, rechecked ourselves several times, and pinched each other countless times asking if this is all a reality.

I say all this to mention that last night we had our first at home scare. Samantha Grace had a fabulous day playing, running errands, and taking a good LONG nap. However, just before she "hit the sack" for the night her blood sugar read a scary 56! (Hers has to be at least 110 before bed.) So I somewhat calmly started through our step-by-step process. After a glass of Juicy Juice, she measured 131. After a snack of peanut butter crackers we went to bed.

As a mother's instinct I checked her 3 times throughout the night, all measuring in the 200+ which is fabulous at night for her. Then for some weird reason her body is using up her S-L-O-W acting insulin a little bit quicker; therefore, her reading this morning was 69. What is so scary as a parent about this is that it was a mere 2 1/2 hours from when it dropped from 227 to 69! Again, we administered juice and everything was back to normal.

Thankfully, Samantha Grace's endocrinologist is on call this weekend so he was quick to administer a change to her S-L-O-W insulin amounts to help alleviate this sudden drop. Mendy I don't know what I would do without our daily check-ins. You truly are a HUGE support for me!

After our scare this morning, we enjoyed a lovely afternoon baseball game with our church friends! (Trinity you guys played an awesome game!) We are looking forward to a "normal" pizza/movie night with some friends.

Just before writing this post, Joshua and I stopped to think exactly where we were one week ago today. We stopped...sighed...cried a few tears of joy...and prayed...