http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com A Site About a Kid with Diabetes (Eat, bolus, and be happy) Fri, 23 May 2008 18:41:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  On May 6th, 2008, the Walk Awards banquet was held at Hy-Vee Corportate Conference Center.  Our family won a couple of awards, and we want to thank you for helping us achieve that. Then the team and individual awards were presented.  Amber's Awesome Angels won the top family team!  Our team ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/walk-awards-2008/ On May 6th, 2008, the Walk Awards banquet was held at Hy-Vee Corportate Conference Center. One of my favorite things about that building is the bricks right outside the main doors. I've always liked that "hard" recognition of Hy-Vee's national sponsorship of JDRF.  Hy-Vee has been an awesome sponsor ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/walk-awards-banquet-2008/ Walk day this year was a lot better than last year, simply because there hadn't been a blizzard, and everyone on our team could make it!   And as you can see, a whole lot of other people did, too!  We estimated that we had over 8,000 people at the walk this ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/walk-2008-was-a-blast/ Tonight Amber showed me a couple Barbies that she'd been playing with today, and one of them she's always said is her twin.  It's got blond hair, and she dresses it with the same kinds of clothes she wears.  She held held that one up and said, "This is me ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/how-do-you-tell-your-child/ One of the hardest things to get people who aren't parents of kids with serious or chronic diseases to understand is the fear.  The fear of loss of control of management.  The fear of not being there when something happens.  The fear of losing your child for something preventable.  The ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/the-hardest-thing-for-people-to-understand/ http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/our-walk-video/ The JDRF Walk to Cure 2008 will be held on March 1st, and Amber's Awesome Angels are going to be there!  We'd like you to be there, too!  Walk day will be pretty much like last year, from 8 to 11:30, with food and drink in Capital Square and play ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/walk-2008/ At the Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando this summer (yes, I still need to post about that), one of the things we realized is that there is a lot we don't know about how to fully use Amber's pump.  Everything from understanding the different types of boluses to insulin ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/focus-on-pumping/ Wow, what an emotional weekend. Saturday was our JDRF Hope Gala, the theme of which was "Here's looking at you, kids". Amber was one of the kids asked to help, and a couple of months ago she got her picture taken in movie star fashion. JDRF had people do up all ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/adversity-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste/ We walked in the Omaha JDRF Walk to Cure with friends of ours from Omaha.  They were on our walk team in Des Moines, but couldn't make it because of the snow storm that closed all the roads. Between Jana and Heidi (the two in the middle), they raised about $1000 for our walk ... http://www.ambersawesomeangels.com/walk-2007-part-deux-omaha/