Left Behind

Ever since we got out of our house in Colorado, the number 2 pleasure for me has been reading all sorts of books, mystery, action, adventure, stuff like that. But on the 21 of Dec. I finished all 40 books of the Left Behind Kids Series. My dad wrote 36 of those 40.

The whole series is mainly about getting to the Lords Glorious Appearing. And after I finished the series, I went to my mom and told her,"the whole series is practically our story in a different form. Antichrist is the demon for the characters in the book, in our life Antichrist is the mold trying to fool us in every way it can, and the judgements in those 7 years of tribulation, are the obstacles we have to face. And each obstacle is standing in our way, we can choose to let that obsacle stop us or we can fight it and move on and rejoice in the Lord.

Just thought that you wanted some courage in case your in a spot where you're stuck.
And if you're in a tough spot, try and dodge that obsacle and keep moving on.
MOVE ON  is all I have to say,
Wait!!!!! one more thing to say, MOVE ON. OK i'm done you can stop reading now.

see you at my next blog. BYE

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Three Months on a Diet

FINALLY, it feels like a three year anniversary around here. It's a day after Halloween and I have made it three months without fruit or grains and probably am never going to have grains again but still... I think I am the only diabetic kid to stay in range all day without going high or low. My numbers were in order from breakfast to bed time which was late.                         And the moment you've all been waiting for, MY NUMBERS YESTERDAY, 175, 127, 109, and 171. and I had no candy at all. And had a couple treats like peppermint patties (you can look on my mom's blog for the post called "Sugar Cravings") and muffins which my sister just whipped up from an Idea and believe it or not  it was SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I should tell you more but if you look at the next paragraph you'll understand why. I can't remember anything else it's been such a long time since I've written. 
When this post is posted it will be November 26 2010 so I'm once again sorry for the delay but, I've had allot to do and couldn't get to it. So now I'm in my bed writing my post. 
For 4 months now I haven't eaten any grain or fruit or any kind of non- goat milk or yogurt or kefir. Yesterday was as you know Thanksgiving!!!!!! I know, two holidays in one post. But believe it or not I was in range all day and had some key lime pie, and lots of different kinds of Pumpkin Pie that we made ourselves. We had a basketball coach over for Thanksgiving and me and Brandon loved playing sports with him. we played basketball and football and I won football (of course.) But Brandon's team in basketball (which include: Reagan, Byron( the coach) and Brandon against me my dad and Ryan) they won that game. Then we had this incredibly nice half of a family come over (two of them couldn't make it which I wasn't pleased with) and they have had mold too so we thought we would invite them over. We also had a friend from Colorado who lives here in Arizona now, come over. Some friends from our church came over and we had a blast with them. But if you were to ask me which person or persons I would choose as a best friend I would choose my friend Byron. Not that I don't like the people who come from our church, because they are great, great, great friends for our family.


During the month of November me and my dad FINALLY got to go on our last night at the hotel for my 10th birthday trip. The first time we went to look for a hotel in Oro Vally  it didn't work out as we would have planned it, we couldn't find a hotel we could breathe in, the check engine light came on and we had to take it to a repair shop to see what was wrong with it. And unfortunately had to drive back home. The shop we stopped at, (Precision) had a CR-V for sale with leather seats and was automatic. and my dad and I had just been talking about how God may be making us wait for something, like maybe we shouldn't have gone to Oro Vally or something like that. That's when we noticed the CR-V and it was quite a coincidence because we've been looking for a new car for my oldest sister Erin. And when we bought the car not to long ago me and my dad knew why god put that check engine light on, that's why he put the trip on hold. So the next day me my dad and Brandon went to a hotel and stayed the night. And we also figured out that God was holding it off because he wanted Brandon to go with us.


  When I started this diet I knew that three months on a diet would be one of the hardest things of my life but little did I know that it could change your life forever as it did mine. It also led me to the Lord. And although it was a rough road I kept on praying at night, before I went to sleep, tried to do the best that I could when doing anything was impossible. Just the other night I was talking with my mom and my 2nd oldest sister Megan, about our journey and how far we've come, that's when I said something that just popped into my head, I said " when we lost our house and everything we owned and loved, we gained our health and our lives." So when your feeling let down or discouraged just remember that if you've lost anything valuable just remember something good may come to you like it did me. I thank you readers for reading my three slash four months on a diet on my blog. And thank God for bringing me everything I ever wanted, My Typical Life.  

The Second Month on The Diet

The second month has definitely been an experience for me. It has actually brought me closer to God in a way that was very hard. The hardest part was that, well, we once again found stachybotrus in our home in Arizona. We are actually remediating it even as I write this. We found it in one of our three bathrooms where the drywall was right by the shower curtain. When we would take a shower, sometimes the floor would get wet there because the bathtub isn't that big and the tile is close to the tub. Anyway, the wall got wet and some stachybotrus grew right under our noses.


Now that I got that out of my system I want to talk about the bringing me closer to the God kind of thing. I know, I know, I'm completely changing the subject but, I just want to say this month I got to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is how it went. Me, my older sister Kaitlyn, and my younger brother Brandon started a Bible study every day exept for on the weekends. I've also ordered a WWJD necklace for us three. The new life is hard very, very hard. But I have my family my caring friends the Camachos (I think that's how thier names spelled) and of course God's word, the Bible. And just to throw this in, I also have the Left Behind kids series my dad wrote. His name is (just in case you don't know) Chris Fabry. And it's pronounced fay-bree.


Now to get to the diet part of this post. It has definitely been a struggle for me and the family. The mold has really set us off so it's a good thing we started this diet when we did otherwise, well I don't know what would have happened. We probably would be alot more sick than we are right now. I now have a exellent stir fry that my mom approves of. I feed it to me myself and I. ;). My butcher friend helped me with the idea last month if you read it. We definitely have made some inprovements with what we can eat. Like now me and Brandon can have Goat Milk Yogurt again where as in the beginning of the diet we couldn't. The soup is always (well not always, sometimes) stalked up. We now have this routine kind of thing where me and my lucky faithful sidekick Brandon do the breakfast dishes together and get paid 10$ every 2 weeks. But we also have this kind of thing wher my big brother Ryan is the soup manager, my other big brother Reagan is garage manager me and Brandon are dishes managers. 


I can tell God brought us down this (kind of hard) road just to see the brilliantly shining light at the end. Thank you, see you next month.   

The First Month On The Diet

        I'm sorry I didn't write a lot during this month, but I thought of just writing a blog post at the end of each month so that way you can read what happened to me this whole month.
 Our first step of the GAPS Diet is going the whole first day on soup. Just soup. That helped my body so much because my body is so used to having a lot of sugar. I stayed in range with my blood sugars the whole entire day without one slip up. My Lantus that night was I think 5.5 units with no Novolog all day. 4 days before this I went low to 55 or 65 stuff like that.

 After the soup day I started eating nuts and stuff again. But little did I know that soon we would be taking nuts out of the diet too. I was the first one to take out the almonds and cashews because they were sending me sky high - when I say sky high I mean my blood sugar went to the 200s and just stayed there for about a week and a 1/2 and never got in range no matter what we dosed. We soon figured out that after we took off of nuts I needed something in its place. So we put kefir in and goat milk yogurt with vanilla extract and cinnamon and stevia and I'd mix it around with a spoon and drink it. But we took that out of the diet 4 1/2 days after we put it on the diet.
 Once we took the goat milk kefir and yogurt out I still hovered around 200. So we decided to up my Lantus. It worked for a little while when I had veggie stir fries all day and soup and plain coconut creme concentrate (YUM.) Then I started going low in the middle of the day and in the middle of the night and in the morning. My lantus is now down to 7 units.
The day before yesterday we had a friend who is a butcher come over and cook for us all day long (he is from england and I really really like his accent.) He taught me how to cut courgette, carrots, onion, and cabbage. We helped him cook some really good stuff like Chicken Casserole, Mexican Chicken, and really really good veggie soup.
 Just yesterday I got my own kitchen knife and cutting board. And our friend  said that he would love for us (me and my sister, Kaitlyn) to come over to his house soon and cook for my family before hand and then have them come over and eat.
So it definitely worked out that we took out the stuff that I crave (if you crave anything on this diet you need to take it out of your eating.)I'll talk to you next month (or earlier) and tell you what has been going on.
GO DIABETES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO DIET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Birthday in California

Me and my dad had the best time of our lives at Universal Studios Hollywood in California.


   Every 10th birthday you get to go wherever you want to go in the united states of America ( Alaska and Hawaii don't count.) I decided to go to Universal Studios Hollywood I was going to the beach too.
The week before we left to California was when my dad told me in the car if I would want to leave next Thursday. I of course was in so much excitement I was thinking to fast and just said "YES!!!!"  As soon as we got home I told all my 8 siblings where I was going.


We left at about 3:00 and we were on our way. We arrived in California at about 8:00 and ate at panda express. We had a big dinner/desert. After that we looked for a hotel but all we saw were about 1,000 casino's. It's harder to get into where all the hotels are because they literally have no signs at all oust there It's really hard to get to the hotels. We drove for like another hour and finally found a hotel that we could actually see and get to.


We left the next morning to Universal and it only took us a 1/2 hour to get there. When we got in the Universal city walk it felt like you were in some tiny state with like 1,000,000 people in it.


The first ride I went on was called The Simpson's Ride. My dad felt sick after it because it's one of those virtual roller coasters where there's a big movie theater screens that shows you like a video but it throws water at you and other stuff like that.


I know I'm skipping to the end here but the last ride I went on I went on 3 times (and dad went with me) It's called The Jurassic Park Ride that has an 85 ft drop at the end. The funny thing about us falling is they take a picture of you while you fall, and when you look at the picture of my dad you'll see he's got his arms around the lap bar, his head in between his arms. When you look at me you see a boy who obviously wants his mommy to say "It's all right, It's all right" so it definitely looked like I was afraid of going down that far I would think it would take at least 5 seconds but it takes like 2.


After that we went to the beach and I layed eyes on the ocean for the very first time. Luckily we brought my football and I got to play catch with my dad. He sometimes threw kind of far into the waves and I would grab it and try to keep my balance. One GIANT wave came in and knocked me off my feet. Unfortunately it was right before we were going to leave. So my dad had to give me a towel and I'd have to sit on it.


We drove back that night and arrived at our house at about 6:00AM. I told everyone the stories and stuff and gave them their gifts. It sure seemed like one of the most successful trips of my life. 

Three Months on a Diet

Starting Sunday I will be going on this diet called the GAPS diet. The reason I'm doing this is because my mom got an e-mail from a lady whose daughter has type 1 diabetes. The e-mail said that her daughter got on a brand new diet (the GAPS diet) and it lowered her A1c to 6.0.


A1c measures the average blood sugar. An A1c of 6.0 is great for a child with diabetes. The lowest my A1c has been is 7.6. It takes three months to get the A1c to an average level.


For the past few months I've been working really hard on trying to get my blood sugars in range. But after me and my dad went on my tenth birthday trip (FINALLY!) I got back and my mom got sick and wasn't doing well. Now you may think I'm crazy for saying this but it was good for her body to have a cold. You see she hadn't had a cold in 5 years and when she got the cold it meant her body didn't have so many toxins held in there. My little brother got the cold first, that's when me and dad left for the trip. Then my sister. Then me. I had it for 2 weeks and it passed. We started school just four days ago with a tutor. And it was just yesterday that we came up with the idea of me going on this diet.


I'm going to keep a journal of what's going on in the process of the diet. You're going to see days as the titles like Day one, Day 2 and so on and so forth. I'm going to try to write every 2 days so it might be more like Day 1, Day 3. If I don't get to writing every 2 days then I apologize and I'll try and write more later.


Just wanted you to know about what's going on.
BYE!!!!!

Leaving In November

In November we will leave this house, because of a court thing (I forgot what it's called). I hope you know our mold story, and if you don't then I'll have to explain it to you. You see, we were in a house in Colorado, and we had to leave it because of, dare I say it, MOLD. And most importantly we had the highest score of Stachybotrys which is one of the most dangerous MOLDS. I'll tell you the names of the molds: Stachybotrys,Aspergillus,Penicillium, Cladosprium, and Chaetomium. That's all I know but my mom knows like every thing there is to know about mold. You can visit HER website at www.moldrecovery.blogspot.com.

Anyway i hope you know enough about our mold story to follow along. So we leave from here in November for a court hearing (I figured it out).

My family is doing very well with what we are doing and how we changed over the last few years. It's still hard to keep up with it but we do it anyway. The picture below shows all 11 family members well Megans not there she was feeling sick so it's 10 family members. I'll tell you their names from the left all the way to the right. It goes Ryan, Kaitlyn, Mom, Kristen, Reagan, Dad, Me, Shannon (also known as she, she,) Brandon, and last but not least Erin. And Megan's not there.



Over the last couple of years I have been one of the most improved of the family. I went from eating Pop Tarts to eating unhealthy cereal. I went from eating cereal to eating Breakfast Bowls. I went from eating breakfast bowls to eating Luna Bars. I went from eating Luna Bars to LaraBars, from LaraBars to smoothies, etc. etc. Every day I wonder when i'm going to heal and yet I am healing, and better healing then you could ask for. My first healing is the diet, my second is the love my family and God have showed me.