And the winner is...LAURA HOUSTON!

Congratulations Laura!  You are lucky comment number 43!

YOU are the winner of The Superhero and The Princess' Faith, Hope, Cure: Juvenile Diabetes Sugar Bolus!

Please contact me at onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com within 48 hours to claim your prize. (I just need your mailing address)

And for those interested, at this time, the bags are NOT for sale. I am working on it though...

And a last reminder for all the bloggers out there, don't forget to send ME your blog post link to be included in this month's Blogger Basal! I will be getting it ready soon to post on March 31st.

Also, go on over I am your pancreas to see what Jen has up for the Sugar Bolus this week!

I hope everyone has a GREAT Friday!


*Disclaimer: I am a mom of a T1 Diabetic child. I am NOT a doctor. I just play one in real life. Please do not take anything in this post or any other post on this blog as medical advice. If you have questions or concerns of your own, please seek advice from your doctor.*

Sugar Bolus: Faith, Hope, Cure: Juvenile Diabetes

Christmas day at my parents house we were opening up our gifts as we always do. I got to a gift from my brother's girlfriend, V. This was unexpected because in our family, we "grown" children draw names and only buy for one other "grown" child each year.

So, why did I have a gift from V?

Well, apparently she can sew.

My gift was 2 HANDMADE re-usable grocery bags!

Yes, I said HANDMADE. She is amazing and so were these 2 bags.

Not only are they handmade for ME, they are of course, Diabetes inspired.

She made them BLUE (for World Diabetes Day) and had them embroidered to say "Hope Faith Cure Juvenile Diabetes".

AMAZING.

The fact that she took the time to make sure they were the right color and she incorporated something so near and dear to me, meant the world.

So, why am I telling all you this? 


Because now it is YOUR turn to enter to WIN TWO of these AMAZING, HANDMADE bags!

All you have to do is follow the directions below to have a chance to win these wonderful, re-usable bags!

• Leave me a comment before midnight on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Please include your first name. Comments left without a name will be eliminated. Anonymous comments have been allowed so that those of you without a blog can enter.
  
• To earn extra entries (post a separate comment for each):
• Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter. Then, leave me an additional comment.
• Share a link to this contest on Facebook. Then, leave me an additional comment to let me know.
• Blog about this contest. Then, leave me an additional comment containing
  a link to your blog. If the link to your blog post is not included, the entry will not count.
  

o No duplicate comments are allowed. Duplicate comments will be eliminated.

o Winners will be selected via random draw at http://www.random.org/.

o Winners' names will be posted here on this blog on Friday, March 18, 2011.

o After winners' names are posted, winners will have 48 hours to send a message to me at onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com

o If I do not hear from a winner within 48 hours, I will select a new winner.

Good luck!

*Disclaimer: I am a mom of a T1 Diabetic child. I am NOT a doctor. I just play one in real life. Please do not take anything in this post or any other post on this blog as medical advice. If you have questions or concerns of your own, please seek advice from your doctor.*

Weekly Sugar Bolus

Laura has an AWESOME giveaway that I totally want to win!

You should head on over and enter too!

Go on...GO ENTER!

*Disclaimer: I am a mom of a T1 Diabetic child. I am NOT a doctor. I just play one in real life. Please do not take anything in this post or any other post on this blog as medical advice. If you have questions or concerns of your own, please seek advice from your doctor.*

The Superhero & The Princess' Great PJ World Diabetes Day Giveaway!

** THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED**

Welcome to

The Superhero & The Princess'

Great PJ World Diabetes Day Giveaway!

This contest comes to you courtesy of PJs for a Cure.



PJs for the Cure are specially designed women's and children's pajama sets from Komar, the #1 sleepwear manufacturer in the country.

Komar donates 100% of all sales of these special PJs to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

Yep, you read that right! 100% Isn't that great?!

The wife of Komar CEO Charles Komar was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and thus, Mr. Komar founded PJs for the Cure in an effort to raise $1 million for JDRF.

Wouldn't you like to snuggle up in your very own set of PJs for the Cure?

Well, Komar contacted several of us bloggin' D mamas with an opportunity to give away free PJs, and we united for a mega giveaway to celebrate World Diabetes Day! It's a Super Sugar Bolus!

(Just so you know...My fellow D mama bloggers and I are neither getting paid by Komar nor are we receiving free PJs for hosting our giveaway contests. This is simply a fantastic opportunity to spread the word about the great work that Komar is doing to support the research for a cure!)

You can view the entire collection of PJs for the Cure at www.pjsforthecure.org.

Here's how to enter the contest:

Leave a comment on this blog post before Saturday, November 13th at noon EST. Please include your name.

Only one entry is allowed per person.

The winner will be chosen randomly at www.random.org and announced on Sunday, November 14th.

Don't forget that I'm not the only D mama celebrating and holding a contest! Komar generously donated 13 pairs of PJs for this World Diabetes Day Super Sugar Bolus!

So, visit my fellow D mama bloggers listed below and increase your chances of winning! You can enter to win on all 13 blogs!

(But you can only win one pair of PJs. Once you win on one blog, you are disqualified from winning on another blog. We gotta be fair and spread the PJ love!)

Beta Buddies

Candy Hearts

D-Tales

Houston Family We Have a Problem

I am Your Pancreas

Life is Like a Box of Chocolates

My Diabetic Child

My Sugar Bugs

Our Diabetic Life

The Princess and The Pump

The Sugar Kids Blog

The We CARA Lot Blog

Remember, you only have until tomorrow, Saturday, November 13th at noon to enter The Great PJ World Diabetes Day Giveaway on all of these blogs. So, start clicking and commenting!

We D mama bloggers will announce one winner per hour, starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 9 p.m., on World Diabetes Day, Sunday, November 14th.

Good luck!

And, if you don't win, won't you please consider purchasing a pair of PJs for the Cure? It's for a good cause!

*Disclaimer: I am a mom of a T1 Diabetic child. I am NOT a doctor. I just play one in real life. Please do not take anything in this post or any other post on this blog as medical advice. If you have questions or concerns of your own, please seek advice from your doctor.*

WENDY, CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU are the winner of The Superhero & The Princess' Girly, Girl Giveaway!

Wendy, (of Candy Hearts) please email me within 48 hours at onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com to claim your prizes!

And for those of you who did not win, check out these two girly companies anyway! They have beautiful products at affordable prices!

Thank you all for participating in another Sugar Bolus!

(For those interested, there were 44 entries and 39 was the winning comment #)

Don't forget to come back at 12pm (EST)--(10am AZ time) for a BIG Giveaway announcement!


*Disclaimer: I am a mom of a T1 Diabetic child. I am NOT a doctor. I just play one in real life. Please do not take anything in this post or any other post on this blog as medical advice. If you have questions or concerns of your own, please seek advice from your doctor.*

It's a Girly, Girl Giveaway!

***THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***

For all of you with little girls of your own OR if you know anyone with a little girl, you MUST see and ENTER this giveaway!

I have found 2 REALLY GREAT Etsy sellers and am giving away some REALLY CUTE products!


The first company is...

Lilivieve Lane is an Etsy boutique run by a mom of 2 girls. She works out of her home and enjoys making SUPER cute hair things for girls. (Lilivieve is a combination of her daughter's names, Lillian and Genevieve)

Check out The Princess with a few of the hair things made by Lilivieve Lane...

(The Princess does NOT like cooperating so these are NOT the best photos of her, or of the hair things, I just wanted to give you an idea)

(An AWESOME flower with rhinestone center)

(a set of mini korkers, I LOVE these!)

(The same AWESOME flower with rhinestone center from above, on a headband)

All of the flowers, korkers, and clips CAN be used with a headband or separately. And, if you don't see colors that you would like, just send Lilivieve Lane a message and she will work with you to create a custom product.

Lilivieve Lane is also dedicated to shipping products as quickly as possible, and in most cases in just a day or two.

We now own MANY of her products and I LOVE them all! I have also given several items as gifts and they are always a "hit" with the girls on the receiving end.

Lilivieve Lane has generously donated several adorable things for me to give to my winner.

If you choose to purchase from Lilivieve Lane, please mention that you heard about her from my blog. This will help track where the business came from. :-)

Thank you, Lilivieve Lane, for participating in this giveaway!

(see below to see what products will be included in the prize)



The second company is...

I found Sweetness Bows from a suggestion on Facebook (I think it was Chasiti who recommended them).

I bought a few bows during a Comment Game one Friday and I have been hooked since then! I LOVE the bows we have received. We ALWAYS get compliments when The Princess wears her bows.

We have several solid color bows that can go with many outfits. I also had Sweetness Bows make a custom bow to match The Princess' birthday outfit (see below).

I have also now ordered a holiday bow set, which will be part of the giveaway below. Since it is a set of 2 bows with 2 lollipop clips, and The Princess does NOT need both sets, I am including part of my purchase in the giveaway. Because I love you all THAT much. :)

Due to the customized nature of her bows, shipping time can be 3-4 weeks in some cases. So you would need to shop early if you need them for a specific event. If you have a special circumstance and need a bow sooner than that, just send Sweetness Bows an email and she will be happy to work with you to get your item(s) done sooner. They really are worth the wait!

Also, she is closing up shop on November 12th for the holidays. She will be working while she is closed to make some products ahead of time so shipping time should be cut down significantly in the future.

Here are a few pictures of The Princess showing off her cuteness with her bows...

(again, not the best picture, but this was the first day we got the bows)

(custom Birthday Bow)

If you choose to purchase from Sweetness Bows, please mention that you heard about her from my blog. This will help track where the business came from. :-)



And now for the prizes. The winner will receive the following items shipped directly to you.

1) A collection from Lillivieve Lane which will include a pink headband, a white headband, a pink flower, a pink/brown clippie set, and a blue clippie set. All items seen in the photo below.

2) One Holiday bow/lollipop clip set from Sweetness Bows. Seen in the photo below.

Photos of the prizes:



So now that I have convinced YOU to ENTER, here are the rules...

• Leave me a comment before midnight on Thursday, November 11, 2010. Please include your first name. Comments left without a name will be eliminated. Anonymous comments have been allowed so that those of you without a blog can enter.
  
• To earn extra entries (post a separate comment for each):
• Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter. Then, leave me an additional comment.
• Share a link to this contest on Facebook. Then, leave me an additional comment to let me know.
• Blog about this contest. Then, leave me an additional comment containing
  a link to your blog. If the link to your blog post is not included, the entry will not count.
  

o No duplicate comments are allowed. Duplicate comments will be eliminated.

o Winners will be selected via random draw at http://www.random.org/.

o Winners' names will be posted here on this blog on Friday, November 12, 2010.

o After winners' names are posted, winners will have 48 hours to send a message to me at onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com

o If I do not hear from a winner within 48 hours, I will select a new winner.

Good luck!

***THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***

Halloween and some updates

One of the big hot topics in the Diabetes world each year is HALLOWEEN.

I mean think about all that candy and the blood sugars that will follow.

Every family handles it differently. Some let their kids frost cupcakes and eat them later, others let their kids indulge in anything they want, and others trade their kids candy for toys.

This will be our third year with Diabetes at Halloween and we don't really have a long term plan at this point since our kids are still really little.

2008-The first year with D at Halloween The Superhero was not even 2 years old and The Princess was just 3 days old. I remember that year we let The Superhero have his FIRST sucker EVER. It was the candy he chose out of ALL the candies he had. It was a dum dum. He REALLY enjoyed it. The pump definitely makes allowing him to eat candy at non-meal times much easier, but that first year with his sucker, we just dealt with it on shots.Then I am sure we ate some of the left over candy and I sent the rest with Rod to work.

2009-Then last year, The Princess was just 1 year old and The Superhero was almost 3. We let them (mostly him, since she was little) eat some of the candy that night. We bolused with his pump and moved on. Over the next few days, he might have had some of the candy. We just did not make a big deal out of it. And again, I am sure we ate some of the candy, saved the "low" candies, and sent the rest with Rod to work.

2010-So again this year, with a 2 year old Princess and an almost 4 year old Superhero, we will let them each eat some of the candy that night. And we will let them have some of the candy over the next several days and then we will send it to work with Rod.

As the kids get older I am definitely interested in some of the other ideas I have heard. The Switch Witch (read about on Hallie's blog, from an unknown blogger) where you leave your candy out at night and the Switch Witch trades the candy for a toy for each kid. I think this is a GREAT idea and could quite possibly become out tradition. We will have to put some thought into this before next Halloween!

So, nothing fancy here, but, that is how Halloween is done in OUR house. It may/will not work for everyone, but for now, it works for us.

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I also wanted to mention that I am REALLY a crazy person, it is obvious to me now because I have been coerced into signing up for NaBloPoMo AGAIN.

You may remember that I did this in September. I posted EVERY.SINGLE.DAY in the month of September and earned my badge.

Well, I will be doing it again in November. Please don't feel as though you have to comment every single day. I know there are several of us signed up for November and it will be hard to keep up with the reading, but we all love all of our commenters, so please still comment when you can. :-)

Other crazy bloggers signed up for November:
Kris@ My Sugar Bugs
Hallie@ The Princess and The Pump
Meri @ Our Diabetic Life
Nicole@ We Cara Lot
Lora@ My Diabetic Child
Wendy@ Candy Hearts
Jen@ I am You Pancreas
Sweet Momma @ The Sugar Kids Blog
Heather@ Sweet to the Soul


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Don't forget to enter this week's Sugar Bolus for a SWEET prize!


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And because I love pictures, I thought I would share Halloween over the last 3 years...

2007-The cutest monkey, EVER...

2008-A baby pumpkin and a pirate
(showing me how to use the sword)...

2009-Superman...

2009-A Pink, Sparkly, Fairy Princess...
(she is wearing this again this year, because I love it THAT much)

2010- To come later...(a CUTE Buzz Lightyear and an adorable Pink, Sparkly Fairy Princess)

I hope everyone has a SAFE and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

And the winner is...

So, first I would like to thank all 3 companies...

Paul from Kid Safety Bands



Tricia from KPP



Sue from Everything Squeedle


THANK YOU ALL for participating in my first giveaway!

A reminder that the WINNER will receive:
1) 3 Kid Safety Bands
2) 1 item of your choice from KPP
3) 1 adorably cute SQUEEDLE


And 2 runners up will also win an adorably cute SQUEEDLE.



Using random.org, I had 57 entries...

And now for the winner...


Lucky #22 is...

Hallie said...

http://www.theprincessandthepump.com/2010/10/happy-sweetest-day.html

Blogged!

October 17, 2010 5:19 PM

HALLIE from The Princess and The Pump!

So, Hallie, please email me to claim your prize. If I do not receive a response within 48 hours from the time this post was published, I will choose a new winner. (onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com)



And the runners up...(taking out the 1st winner and then the second winner before drawing)


Lucky #45 is...

Meri said...

Tweet Tweet!
http://twitter.com/our3Dlife/status/28377076027

October 21, 2010 10:31 PM

Meri from Our Diabetic Life!


And Lucky #13 is...

Ronda said...

Just shared on Facebook!

October 15, 2010 8:40 PM

Ronda of Autoimmune Island!




Congratulations to the WINNERS! (please contact me to claim your prizes: onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com; you have 48 hours to claim)




If you didn't win, PLEASE check out these companies anyway. They offer GREAT products at GREAT prices!




And, of course, there is ANOTHER SUGAR BOLUS starting TODAY...

Kris over at My Sugar Bugs has a GREAT giveaway...

Blog Post updates, 3rd Edition

Here are some updates on recent blog posts...

1) To bang, or not to bang...

Well, initially I had decided "not to bang" and to grow The Princesses bangs out. She had a different idea. I always put her hair up out of her face when she goes to daycare.

This last week she started pulling out her hair thing and the teachers could not find it. So that resulted in her having her hair look like CRAZY the rest of the day.

After picking her up Friday with CRAZY hair, I decided we just HAD to get the bangs cut. And I decided to get all of her hair cut so it would look more even and "finished". Enjoy the pics below from her cut experience and the resulting cuteness when we were done.



2) The Diabetes MeMe for kids

First, we know no one named Karen. So I am not sure how she is his best friend. That CRACKED ME UP.

Second, we don't eat cookies all the time. I don't even know where that one came from. This is a RARE thing in our house.

Third, I want to be 5 when I grow up too!



3) Update on the Ears for The Princess

Ears seem to be healing great. The GI doc happened to look in there while we visited her and she said they looked good. We go back the the ENT on the 1st of November for a check up. I will update after that appointment. Thank you all for the prayers for healthy ears.



4) 5 Years Ago/ Trip to Vegas

Thank you all for the well wishes on our 5 year anniversary. It is so surreal to know we have been married for 5 years. It seems like yesterday! We had an interesting time in Vegas. A post will be coming when I can find the time. We enjoyed casino hopping and playing the penny slots. I know, I know, we are BIG spenders. :-)



5) Endoscopy has been scheduled

And has now been re-scheduled, and MOVED UP. The Princess was/is getting more and more miserable since re-starting gluten just over 1 week ago. She has had to re-start her acid reflux meds and is NOT sleeping well, worse than before. I called on Thursday and BEGGED for them to move her up to a sooner date. I guess I sounded pathetic enough on the phone because the doc is getting her in THIS Tuesday the 19th.

She is scheduled for a 1pm endoscopy. I will arrive with her there around 11am. My parents will be out of town, so I am VERY THANKFUL for Wendy right now. She has offered to keep The Superhero for the day while I take care of The Princess and her biopsy. Rod could take off work, but since he is still in training at the new job, I did not want him to have to take time off for this.

So, we will have answers SOON. I will most likely just put The Princess back on the GF diet after her endoscopy while we wait for the results. I feel it really did help her feel better and I think we will end up there anyway. A friend of mine shared her friend's blog link, and through there I found a link with more info on EE.

EE is something the GI doc will be biopsying for through this Endoscopy. And The Princess has EVERY symptom on the list. So, even if celiac is negative (which was my first thought with all of this), I still feel there is SOMETHING going on with her and wheat. I have always noticed something and am really hoping for answers now.

I will update after Tuesday to let you all know how everything went. I am not sure how long before we get the official results, I am hoping to know before the weekend. We will see.



6) GIVEAWAY

Don't forget to enter my blog GIVEAWAY. I mean, really, who doesn't want to win FREE stuff!

A Super Awesome GIVEAWAY, right here at The Superhero & The Princess

I am SO excited to be offering my VERY FIRST Superhero & The Princess GIVEAWAY!

ONE lucky winner will win not one, not two, but THREE prizes from three GREAT companies!

So, without further ado...here is what the lucky winner will receive...

1)

Paul from Kid Safety Band is offering my lucky winner THREE personalized bracelets!

These bracelets can be personalized with any information you choose. With THREE bracelets, you are sure to have one on your kiddo at all times! (Or if you have multiple kids, you can create one for each of them!)

We have used these bracelets since right after The Superhero was dx with T1 Diabetes.

I chose this brand for several reasons, but mainly because of the small sizing they offered and the affordable price. They were one of the only ones that went small enough to fit my little man at such a young age.

Paul created the Kid Safety Band after frantically searching for his lost child in a park. These bands can keep ANY kid safe by providing your contact information to those who find the child.

You can have 2 lines of information printed on the band. We chose to have The Superhero's name and T1 Diabetes on one side and around the other side I have my phone number as a contact. The Superhero wears his orange bracelet whenever we leave our house.

(side note: There is a warning on the site stating these are not for children under 3, as they can be a choking hazard. This is a personal choice and The Superhero has always been supervised when wearing his band.)

Here is a picture of The Superhero sporting his orange Kid Safety Band on his first day of school...

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Kid Safety Band!

2)

When we made the decision to put The Superhero on an insulin pump he was barely 2 years old. We needed to have a way to keep his pump with him and out of the way (to keep his hands off!). We were extremely fortunate enough to have been directed to KPP.

We ordered several of the toddler pump shirts with the pouch on the back. The Superhero has been wearing his since he started pumping in February 2008. He does get the choice to wear his pump in a pump pack on his waist or on his back in his KPP, and he often still chooses his tanks with the pump pocket. He and I both love that the tubing is out of the way and tucked in under his shirt.

There are items for children and also some items for adults.

The winner from this giveaway, will receive ONE item from KPP of your choice!

And, even if you don't win this giveaway, you can shop from the KPP store and know that Kangaroo Pump Pockets™ donates 2% of each sale to JDRF!

Here are a couple pictures of The Superhero sporting his KPP toddler pump shirt...(wearing 5T's, they are stretchy, so we bought them big and they have lasted and fit him well since we bought them.)

SO IN LOVE WITH KPP!

3) EVERYTHING SQUEEDLE

When I was first searching for items to giveaway I searched "Diabetes" on Etsy. One of the first sites I came across was Everything Squeedle.


Everything Squeedle's bio from Etsy...
"As a lamp work artist, I made the first Squeedle for my son who has Type I (auto-immune) Diabetes. It was just a fun little character for my son to enjoy. Who knew this would become a way to make contributions to a cure?! The octopus design evolved from the feeling that there are multiple "arms" of this disease which constantly have to be dealt with. My son didn't really see the metaphor in the octopus -- he just thought it was fun and cute! He called the little creation, "Squeedle," and the name stuck. When others wanted their own, the Squeedle© evolved into a fundraiser for Type I Diabetes research. All proceeds from sales go toward finding a cure via the Children's Diabetes Foundation of the North Bay, Inc., a non-profit which contributes to the wonderful UCSF Diabetes Center! Each individually crafted Squeedle has its own unique character."

Sue has provided me several Squeedles. I have been wearing an adorably cute periwinkle Squeedle pendant around and he is just the cutest thing!

My lucky winner will receive ONE Squeedle Lanyard (color may vary from the one shown in the link/below since each Squeedle is unique).

Isn't he cute?!

And since Sue was SO generous, I will also draw 2 RUNNERS UP in this GIVEAWAY who will each receive a Squeedle lanyard of their own!

I wish you all the best of luck!

The rules of the giveaway are as follows...

• Leave me a comment before midnight on Thursday, October 21, 2010. Please include your first name. Comments left without a name will be eliminated.
• To earn extra entries (post a separate comment for each):
• Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter. Then, leave me an additional comment.
• Share a link to this contest on Facebook. Then, leave me an additional comment to let me know.
• Blog about this contest. Then, leave me an additional comment containing
  a link to your blog.

o No duplicate comments are allowed. Duplicate comments will be eliminated.

o Winners will be selected via random draw at http://www.random.org/.

o Winners' names will be posted here on this blog on Friday, October 22, 2010.

o After winners' names are posted, winners will have 48 hours to send a message to me at onesuperheroandoneprincess@gmail.com

o If I do not hear from a winner within 48 hours, I will select a new winner.

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED.

Click HERE to see who won.