Imagine spending 3 days with 3 girls just your age who also have diabetes...with your families....at an awesome ranch...in a cool log home...with lots of fun activities.
Introducing the 1st annual Diabetic Darlings camp! See these sweet girls below...4 of them have Type 1 Diabetes.
How this all got started....My friend, Amy (see below), is mom to two sweet girls. Her 10 year old is a Type 1 Diabetic. Amy happens to have a lovely log home at a very cool ranch just west of Fort Worth. She and her husband (also a Type 1 Diabetic) came up with this great idea to bring 3 families together for a long weekend at their ranch and create a "camp" for the girls. Between the 3 families we have 8 kids (4 with Type 1 diabetes)...ranging in age from 6 to 13.
None of us were brave enough to send our girls off for an overnight diabetic camp (neither did the girls want to go)....so, we decided to make our own. We made t-shirts and custom water bottles, came up with crafts, put together journal topics for the girls, special treats and a daily schedule of activities. The girls shared a bunk room...just like camp (so cool!)...and spent lots of time talking, laughing and making up silly skits for us to watch. They tested blood sugar, counted carbs, treated lows and got mad at highs....all together. They (and we) learned from one another how we can handles things differently to better manage diabetes and all the emotions that come from being (and raising) pre-teen girls with type 1 diabetes.
It was an awesome weekend! And we are already excited about and planning for next year.
A few snapshots of our time together...
All of the kiddos
The Baby Brothers (ok...they're not really babies)
Journal time (check out that view!)
Can you tell what they are spelling?
Please join us in praying for a C-U-R-E for these precious girls and all of the other children just like them.
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