You know you're the parent of a child with diabetes when ...

1. Your 10-year-old daughter looks at a beautiful, pinkish-purple sunset and declares, "That is so pretty! It looks like an infected site!"
2. You don't bat an eye when your teen says, "I have alcohol in my room."
3. Your child practices her math facts using MultiClix as counters!
4. Your non-D child refers to all numbers as carbs - "I'm 3 carbs old!"
5. Your six-year-old child announces that she didn't get high at that party and you know exactly what she meant, but the person next to you just looks at the two of you with a concerned face.
6. You wake up in the night, see the projection clock that says "5:30" and panic thinking that your child's blood sugar is 530!
7. You notice someone giving you a concerned look and realize that they have overheard your cell phone conversation with your teen daughter that went something like this: "You are high? You were high last night too at about this time."
8. In your search for change at the bottom of your purse to pay for an item at the register, you also find used test strips
9. Your three year old who doesn't have diabetes is pretending to read the carbohydrate information on all the boxes at the grocery store and is saying, "Nope too many carbs for sister" on everything she picks up.
10. You come home and ask you son how he is doing and he answers with a number.
11. Your child never gets the broken crackers from the box -- it's too hard to count carbs on those broken pieces!
12. Everyone in the family says they are "low" instead of hungry!
13. You go through a drive-in at Dunkin' Donuts and see the sign that said "High Curb" and you start laughing because you think it said "HIGH CARB."
14. You are practicing spelling the word "S-I G-H-T" and your child asks if he should spell the "sight" with his eyes or the "site" on his butt.
15. Your six year old runs to the bathroom yelling "I've got to go Type 2!"
16. Everytime any one pricks or cut your finger you run for the meter -- you wouldn't what to waste ANY blood.
17. You buy laundry detergent not based on brand preference, but on whether the bottle would make a good sharps container.
18. Your two-year-old non diabetic says "me too" to get her blood checked and wears an old monitor around her waste in a pump pouch
19. For Halloween your child dresses up as a sharps box.
20. Your 6-year-old child with diabetes decides to leave syringes and Lantus out for Santa and his reindeer.
21. You have the coolest first grader in the entire school -- none of other children have a "beeper" and personal nurse who follows them everywhere they go.
22. You ask your child how their day at school went and instead of saying "fine" they start rattling off blood sugar numbers
23. You ask your child what they had for lunch and they reply 45 carbs!
24. Your 3-year-old son with diabetes asks every person who drinks juice, "Are you low?"
25. You look in your rear view mirror as your D toddler falls asleep in the car and hope it's not a coma.
26. You decide that cavities are a lesser evil than seizures when you're giving your child yogurt in the middle of the night
27. You no longer say it's time for dinner -- instead you yell that it's time to check blood sugars.
28. You glance at the subject line of an email and it reads "I did my first insertion!" and it's not a porn spam!
29. You catch yourself counting the carbs in all the food you or anyone else eats.
30. Your child refers to sequel movies as "Type 2".
31. You know when School Nurse's Day is and you observe it.
32. The only thing worse than a substitute teacher is a substitute school nurse.
33. You evaluate measuring cups by how well they will work as serving spoons.
34. You can't remember your child's grades, but can recite the A1c and last three blood glucose values any time.
35. You never throw needles in the garbage, but you occasionally forget and throw garbage in the sharps box.
36. Asked what's sexy in a man, you quickly respond, "Good injection technique and a willingness to do 3 a.m. checks."
37. You thought 2 a.m. feedings were a thing of the past once your child was no longer an infant.
38. Your child says, "Do I HAVE to take that nasty tasting medicine? Will you ask the doctor if it comes in an injectable form?"
39. You realize the saying "Don't cry over spilt milk" was said by someone who never had to look at that milky puddle and try and guess how many carbs it contains.
40. Complete strangers come up to your daughter, lift their shirt as high as their waist band and say "Look, I have one too." (meaning a pump, not a belly button!)
41. In December, your D child is asked by someone if they're looking forward to Christmas and your child answers, "I'm looking forward to a cure."
42. You're at a birthday party and the cake is being handed out and your D child says "It doesn't look good enough for a shot."
43. Your three year old child already knows his two and three digit numbers from reading his glucose meter.
44. You test your non-D child whenever she begins drinking too much
45. You base your entire self-worth on your kid's last A1C!
46. Your year is broken up into endo visits every quarter.

I just had to share this! I found it at www.childrenwithdiabetes.com