Happy day!

to you! Today!

In Finland kids are on their summer holiday, and have all kinds of summer activities. Our youngest goes to theater course this week.

She is a dibetic so when she starts off she has a back bag with her meals in, and a handbag with her blood glucose meter, emergency drink, and insulin, in order to be prepared to all conditions, and her cell phone in which she has set reminders for snacks, meals and scheduled blood glucose measurings. She also wears a diabetes bracelet.

She went off today when her father came back from home to drive her; she was so sunny and happy and joyful about everything: that she would be in the course even today; that she had managed packing in everything she needed; that mother (me!) was going to have free today and be at home when she would come back; that it would be her candy-half-day (an invention of her wonderful godfather who got the idea of splitting one candy day into two halves when goddaughter protested about not having enough candy days when they were reduced from two to one - marvellous!) - and that her blood sugar had been on normal level for quite some time already - actually, I think, longer than ever before!

So she went off and looked so wonderfully happy, waved and said, "It is going to be a good day!" - closed the door with the back bag on her back and the handbag hanging from her shoulder, looked in from the window which was so high up that only her shiny eyes and curly hair could be seen, and said through the glass, "Bye-bye mother, have a nice day!"

My heart has been filled with joy ever since, and I feel overwhelmingly happy and privileged to have such a wonderful daughter and to be able to live such a wonderful life - life that makes me happy and willing to make others happy too. I could not just sit back, I had to share this with you - and I hope you can feel even part of the happiness that I do feel.

It has been rainy from yesterday; now it seems that some rays of the sun are coming through the clouds - like to accompany the overall good feeling. So, and good feeling and happiness to you all!
to all !

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