1 Drop at a Time

Well we survived our first, low-carb thanksgiving meal and it actually went really well! My brother-in-law didn't even realize he was eating cauliflower mashed potatoes! Win! We celebrated Thanksgiving, today, so this post is coming to you a little late. Our menu included:  -Turkey  -Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes* -Brown Fried Rice* -Green Bean Casserole  -Sweet Potato Soufflé* -Mixed Green Salad with Granny Smith Apples walnuts, blue cheese & dried cranberries tossed in a lite balsamic vinaigrette  -Rolls  Pumpkin Pie* Pecan Pie Peanut Butter Pie* * low(er) carb  Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes and Peanut Butter Pie recipes can be found in earlier post. So I tired out some new recipes and stuck with some old faithfuls. My mother-in-law and brother-in-law made some super yummy fried rice that was low sodium and lower carb thanks to the jasmine brown rice and their talent in Asian cuisine. I'm not even going to attempt to recreate what those

Hi all! I find that I write when the sun shines again. Yet again, Athens felt like it was going to float away but fortunately ol' sun is out and shining. Tomorrow is World Diabetes Day. I am anxiously awaiting a short film, the @thebetes created, called, #Type1Day1. It is sort of surreal because this time last year, I was pregnant and struggling with managing gestational diabetes and had no idea this community or day existed. What a difference a year makes. I'll be at work tomorrow, more than likely sharing this day with people with diabetes, but I wish everyone a day of community, and the hope that maybe one day, a cure will come. As I reflect on this past year, I can say I have come a long way but I know I have so much to learn and live.  The other day, I posted a picture on Instagram of a near perfect trend (at least for me) and I felt oddly guilty. Recently, my numbers haven't been anywhere close to that and I've been hovering around the 200's. Yuck. I hate