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You'll often hear parents of children with diabetes - myself included - moaning and groaning about the many classroom birthday parties that we must contend with. Seems it's every week that my wife gets a call from the nurse regarding an unexpected carpet-bombing of brownies or cake.

We deal with these situations without too much of a fuss, but still, it's yet another curve ball thrown our way.

I've read many horror stories through the years of classmates' parents who just don't get it. Or rather, parents who think they get it but really don't at all. Hard to believe, but I remember a story about one parent who distributed birthday treats to all of the kids in the class except the kid with diabetes. He thought he was doing a commendable thing in recognizing that there was a diabetic in the class and keeping the evils of sugar away from him or her.

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Charlie took the cookie from the cookie jar.  Or from the diabetes bag, as it were.

At least one mystery has been solved in a month that has been absolutely atrocious on Charlie's blood sugars.

There is a reason why Charlie's lunch blood sugars have increased significantly in the past two weeks. He confessed sadly yesterday to the crime of mid-morning snacking while at school.

He didn't get an F on a math test. He didn't push a classmate. He wasn't disrespectful to a teacher. He just ate food with carbohydrates in it.

"I won't do it anymore."

"I was planning on stopping," he added, as if trying to kick heroin.

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