Last night, Heath and I went to see David Gray at the DPAC in Durham - great show and a fantastic venue. Awesome acoustics! During the show, Heath leaned over and said "you know, I really don't give a f_ _ k about us having to deal with Chance having diabetes, it's OK". The irony of this statement is that I came to the same realization about two days ago about the same time Heath did.
Let me clarify here - we love Chance and care deeply about managing his diabetes to the best of our ability. However, diabetes hasn't broken us, we are all OK (especially Chance), it is part of who Chance is now and we don't give a crap if we have to deal with it until we depart this beautiful earth. The Claytons are survivors, we take life and all its challenges with stride and diabetes will not change this.
The second interesting exchange during the show was that I said, "I am easy to please". Heath responded, "when you are not impossible to please". This made us both laugh. If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
Downtown Durham has really changed - very hip. We met Jim and Holly before the show at Revolution - a very swanky restaurant on West Main Street. From here, we walked to the DPAC. It is very cool what they have done with the whole downtown, DPAC and Durham Bull Stadium area. After the show, we met a few friends at Whiskeys. Our friend Barry bought a building on W. Main Street so he gave us a tour of his totally industrial and chic loft that he renovated and furnished in the building. He definitely should have Southern Living photograph and publish a story about his place. If it was in NYC, it would be worth millions.
Today, we did a "Just Ducky" art class. Chance really gets into the art project thing, Tas just wants to run around the class and explore all the boxes of supplies, open cabinets, and use the hairdryer upside down. I removed Tas about 35 mins into the class for being disruptive to the other artists. We went and sat in the car while Chance finished his project. After this experience, I decided that Chance and Mommy will continue to do the classes, while Tas takes on another activity with Dad.
Tonight, we drove back up to Durham to do a game night at Jim and Holly's. We brought the punkins who had a great time, but were into everything of Griff's and the rest of the stuff at their home. When we left, we had a huge mess to clean up, which we did. Jim and Holly were very gracious about the mess.
It feels like 12am, I am really tired from the two days activities plus last night, I was on the 3am blood test duty - tonight I get to sleep - yay!
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