I am never (never, ever, ever) going to win the Martha Stewart award for good housekeeping. I have three kids, a dog and a cat who shed complete replicas of themselves on a daily basis and a husband who thinks the entire house is a coat rack/closet/laundry basket. And I'm always able to think of a million things I'd rather do that pick up.

It's starting to spill over into the diabetes care, though. Olivia went off to camp this year and I forgot her immunization records. I'd even made a list of forms she needed and I still forgot those. It fortunately hasn't impacted (yet) my new-found logging abilities, but I worry, with the 2 week layoff of her being at camp, I'll struggle with that again. It's an ongoing problem and one I know a lot of other people with diabetes (and/or their parents) share. I just wish I knew of a way to make myself more organized. If I could buy a little obsessive-compulsive disorder, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Not a lot - I have more than enough mental issues to handle right now, I don't need one more debilitating issue - but just a little, just enough to keep me on track a bit more than I'm able to at the moment.

Perhaps this is an issue to discuss with my therapist. I wonder if depression and anxiety keep you from getting things done in a timely or organized fashion. It is a struggle, some days, just to get the kids fed and bathed and played with and all the things I need to do with them. Things tend to fall by the wayside on the bad days.

Do any other parents of kids with diabetes suffer from depression? I may not get many responses - I know a lot of people don't like to talk about it - but I'm hoping I'm not the only one out there who gets laid low by the black dog now and then....