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.*

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.*

Diabetes Art Day 2010

(Day 1 of NaBloPoMo)


So, Lee Ann from The Butter Compartment had this BRILLIANT idea to start a "Diabetes Art Day". No creativity necessary, just come up with something to create using Diabetes as the inspiration.

I know several of my fellow D Mom bloggers are participating, so I finally decided we would join the fun!






I am NOT a creative, artistic person, but had this idea...



The World Diabetes Day symbol is a blue circle...

And I knew we had blue Animas Insets...






So I came up with this...


And THAT's as creative as it gets around here!

You can also check out some other Diabetes Art Projects at I am Your Pancreas , Candy Hearts,Beta Buddies, D Tales, We Caralot, Houston We Have A Problem, Life Is A Box Of Chocolates, , Sugar Kids, and at A Work In Progress.

AND...

Don't forget to check out Hallie's art and enter for her "SWEET" contest at the Princess and the Pump.