Diabetes-Related New Year’s Resolutions

– check fasting blood sugar in the morning

– maintain (or reduce) my current 5.7 A1C

– take at least 2 hour-long walks per week

-perfect the one-handed prick (this is the move where I hold Adam in my left arm, hold my lancet device in my right arm, pull back the tab on the lancet device with my teeth, reach around Adam while he tries to grab the lancet device, prick my left arm, and then attempt to get the test strip to touch the tiny drop of blood that I can’t actually see).

-eat more veggies

-stop ‘accidently’ licking the spoon after mixing chocolate powder into milk for the kids

-work as much as possible on ASweetLife

Happy New Year! Health and happiness to all.

Jessica Apple

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Jessica Apple

Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets). Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)