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It's Spring break. The kids are home from school and the sun is shining (well, not really, but just go with it). Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yeah, I know it's crazy, but hey, it's Spring Break. You're only young once. Let's get a little wild!

I'm talkin' one full week of all-inclusive, inverted, unadulterated, topless …

BASAL TESTING!

Woo-hoo! Par-tay!

How awesome is this gonna be? Charlie will get the full Spring Break experience. Unlimited Jell-O shots; binge testing; zany contests to see how long he can go without eating. It will be like being in Cabo San Lucas only from the comfort of our own home.

For an active 7-year-old, basal testing is near impossible. We obviously can't basal test while he's in school during the week and with the weather getting nicer, his weekends are filled with carb-burning activities such as baseball, biking, hide 'n go seeking, lacrosse, hockey, scootering around, you name it. Prime days for basal testing are hard to find. So, a rainy Spring Break fits the bill perfectly.

Still, when the week half-over, we only successfully basal tested for one very small window of time – 6 am to 10 am. We did learn, however, that his liver was doing some serious secreting from 7 am to 8 am, sending his blood sugar up by about 75 points. We will tweak robot boy's coordinates accordingly. Hopefully we'll be able to test the 2 pm to 5 pm period which has been a problem area before the week of fun is over. Crap! Excuse me.

"Charlie! Put it down!"

"I don't care if there's no carbs in it!"

"Put it down!"

"I don't care that it's Spring Break!"

"Put. The Bong. Down!"