I wasn't at all pleased with how switching to a 1:30pm Lantus injection was working for me. It was just too stressful to make sure I took it exactly then and too bothersome to compete with a post-breakfast high and a lack-of-Lantus high. So I switched.

I split the dose for 1:30pm and roughly 11:30pm (I say roughly because the last two days I've been scrambling around the mall or at Christmas tree lots getting my mom's house ready for Friday's party). I started with a 20 unit and a 15 unit split (originally was on 36 units). I haven't had a chance to sit down with the logbook (see said scrambling), but I have felt some differences.

First of all is my morning numbers. Those morning lows are back. This morning, a nice and early 55 woke me up...along with my mother on the phone and the cat in my ear. And this is after a 64 yesterday morning which made me lower the 15 units to 12 units.

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Olivia's been at camp for five days now. It's always so much quieter around here when she's gone, but it's amazing how much I miss having her around. Oh, sure, the babies are still here, laughing and playing and crying and generally being their cute little selves, but without "LaLa" here, the noise level has dropped dramatically.

The phone doesn't ring, the computer only gets used once in a while. The Disney Channel does not get turned on at all. (No Hannah Montana! Whoohoo!) It's nice, but it's weird. She's always here.

I keep waking by her room and thinking "Gosh, what is she DOING in there?" And then I remember, duh, she isn't here. She's at camp. Having fun. Being a teen-ager. Going to the dances with the Joslin boys. Playing Cities and having backwards day and all sorts of other goofy things they do at camp. And while I miss her intensely, I wouldn't change that for the world. (READ MORE)