Cindy, your best bet would be to go to the Diabetic Association website. Also your Nutritionist/ Dietitian at the hospital has a booklet which is free.
Diabetics, like us heart patients are not weird or strange, we can carry on with healthy lives, we have to be a little bit more cautious. Please use the web site, and be in contact with the association, like the Heart and Stroke Foundation I am with, I find them fantastic and very helpful.
Now that I said that, I am very open when I say I cheat with foods also, I have never hidden the fact on here, my top contributor friends also have a great laugh.
best wishes to your mom, and take care Cindy, your going down the right road.