What a weekend of fun and joy! Spending time with some of my relatives. My almost 2 year old niece, Faith, has finally starting talking away. The doctors said that nothing was wrong with Faith when she didn’t start talking when she should have. She would start talking when she was ready. Now she talks non-stop. It was a joy to watch her in her little coat and short legs running across the yard to find the easter eggs. There were plastic eggs filled with money and hard boiled eggs. The family had hard boiled egg for her to color the day before. She wanted to eat egg and shell her grandmother told me. We had a good laugh at the antics of Faith.

The Easter meal consisted of ham and a lot of different foods. However mostly starches and sweets which is high in carbohydrates. Three of us are diabetics that were there. I had made a sugar free pistachio cool whip pineapple salad.

1 box Jello Sugar Free - Fat Free Instant Pistachio Pudding
2 - 8 oz. containers Kraft Cool Whip Sugar Free Topping
1/4 to 1/2 cup well drained crushed pineapple

Mix the dry pudding mix into the cool whip. Add the pineapple.

After having a wonderful time with the relatives and eating too many things I shouldn’t have, I had to get home to check my blood sugar. I had forgotten to bring my glucometer with me. My reading was not good, 556. Had to take a 10 units of Novolog. Then I checked my blood sugar in 2 hours. My blood sugar was still 196.

I really blew it today and yesterday with handling my blood sugar. Yesterday I bought one of the chocolate Easter eggs filled with cherry nut. I thought a 3 oz. chocolate egg wouldn’t raise my blood sugar so high, but it did. It will take a few days to get my blood sugar back in control.