Caffeine and Diabetes? & updated grandchildren pictures!

It's been a bit of a roller coaster with my dad's diabetes. I found out he didn't have his Metformin and hasn't taken it for quite a while! I'm thinking that is part of the issue. However we've managed to make progress regardless! Today it got down to 109 and he has been in a wonderful mood!! A couple of days ago it really spiked though and he really hadn't had anything that was 'bad'. So I started wondering about caffeine, as he had had quite a bit of it. I looked it up and they are finding that too much caffeine will actually cause the insulin to not be near as effective as it should be. So the last couple of days he's had no caffeine and as I said his mood is much better. Once we get the Metformin, hopefully tomorrow, we can start having a bit more meal wise. I've been fixing very low carb meals and it's been a struggle to keep it below 150, but again how much of that was because of the caffeine? So those wondering why insulin isn't working very well, how much caffeine is being consumed? That was certainly an interesting find!

In other news, I had the girls Monday and Wednesday this week. Yea!! :) They're growing up so fast! Scarlet is starting to talk quite a bit, however it takes some doing to really understand her sometimes! :) She'll be 2 the end of next month and Teagan will be 3 1/2! We went to the park Wednesday morning. Those pictures are below. Great-Grandpa helped push!

The garden is doing pretty good. It's been a tough go for the cucumbers but the crooked neck squash are doing quite well!! As are the tomatoes. Hopefully lots of those can be frozen, as I'm 1 shy of being completely out of them! One of my favorite dishes that I make using the tomatoes and squash is frying the sausage (Hillshire horseshoe shaped) in some olive oil and browning it and then add onions and bell peppers and saute those and then add summer squash saute some more and then tomatoes right at the end. No seasoning is necessary since the sausage takes care of that! My dad LOVES that dish and it is extremely low carb. At this point the peppers, tomatoes and squash are from the garden! Garden pictures below. I need to take some more. There's not many new ones right now! :)