I remember a good story from my neighbor. It goes something like this:

Driving in the car her first grade son asks:

“Mom why is the sky blue?”

She was thinking- great another question I don’t know the answer to…

In the back seat her daughter who is two years old perks up and says “Duh, it’s the most widely dispersed color in the spectrum.”

Ahh, thank you very much- off the hook!

That conversation made me laugh out loud. It seems kids go through a period in their lives that those questions happen all the time. I’m able to answer a wide spectrum of questions but my husband is the pro. If he can’t remember every factoid he’s learned throughout his life he can remember a shred and give a good answer. He is also good about creating answers the kids always believe with a straight face.

I remember when my daughter was 5 or 6 she was asking me a question I couldn’t answer and I told her maybe Dad would know the answer and she said:

“Why don’t Mommies know anything?”

Ouch! (I needed to learn how to make up better answers obviously).

When it comes to living with type 1 diabetes, there are some difficult dialogues that can happen as well. Such as:

“Mom, how many days do I have to do this?” (Asked a few days after diagnosis)

Trying my best not to start bawling, I swallowed my tears and said “let’s just take it one day at a time honey.”

She wasn’t ready for the “forever” answer about living with Type 1 diabetes and neither was I, that was for another day. At least I felt equipped to answer all diabetes related questions with my life experience. I wouldn’t leave her hanging nor would I get any more comments on me not know something about anything. Maybe that would make things a little easier, right?