Lizze woke up sick and now we have a problem. Gavin has to be at his infusion in a couple of hours and I can't take him. The reason I can't take him is because Lizze struggles on the best of days. Now she's sick on top of everything else. I don't know what we are going to do.
Today is going to be kept of those days that can only be handled by dividing our resources and hopefully conquering our objectives. As a special needs family, we often find ourselves in a position where we must be in more than one place at the same time. These times require that we split up and move towards our own objectives. This will once again be the case this afternoon. Gavin has to be at his IVIG infusion, located at Akron Children's Hospital. Elliott has to be at his pediatrician during the time that Gavin is being infused. Since we can't all be in two places at once, we have to divide in order to conquer. Lizze will accompany Gavin to his monthly infusion. I will stay back with Emmett…
I absolutely love my kids. They are amazing and experiencing the world through their eyes is truly a gift. Yesterday, Emmett came downstairs and wanted to show something. He was cracking up. He asked me if i wanted to see something hilarious. I said sure, I could always use a laugh. At this point he proceeded to hang his dolphin key chain on this little elephants trunk. He then took another dolphin key chain and hooked it on the first dolphin. He then showed me his joke and began laughing and ran away. This totally made my day. He's so stinking cute and his mind is absolutely amazing beautiful thing. Please feel free to share your favorite experience with your child.
Does anyone have a easy way to de-bone chicken? I know I could use boneless chicken breast in my soup but I prefer to boil the chicken and remove the bones. I do this with my homemade chicken and veggie soup. Allowing it to boil for a few hours makes the soup taste better. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks to make this process any easier. Right now, I boil chicken quarters until the meat is cooked. Then I remove the chicken quarters intact and pull the meat off, before disposing of the bones and returning the rest to the soup. Is this the best way? Advice from anyone would be awesome. :-)
After meeting with Dr. Reynolds this afternoon, the general consensus about Elliott is that he is severely depressed. That probably won't come as a shock for some of you but it was devastating for me as his father hear that. Dr. Reynolds is very concerned at this point and that concerns me. In our 7 year history with him, he's been pretty conservative. He's not one to throw labels around. Anyway, the problem is, aside from the obvious, that Elliott can't take any type of SSRI. You may recall the whole Zoloft incident last year. If not, just search for in the the search bar on the left. This doesn’t leave many options. Wellbutrin is the best option. The problem is that it isn't typically used on kids and it's…
Lizze, myself and Emmett have arrived at Dr. Reynolds stunning new office and are waiting to be seen for Elliott's appointment. As we're sitting here, we realized we forgot something, rather someone. That someone is Elliott. Panic sets in as I was thinking we forgot him at home. Then I remember, Elliott is at school, safe and sound. Nevertheless, we did forget him. Hopefully, we can conduct the appointment without him. It's for the best anyway. Elliott has been missing school to much this school year and we need to avoid that whenever possible. I think that the only reason we momentarily panicked was due to sheer exhaustion.
Like many families out there, income tax return is vital to the Lost and Tired family’s survival. Each year, I have everything ready for filing right after the first of the year. We also plan out how to use our tax return, throughout the year. This year, we are looking to replace our mattress and cover any medical bills for Lizze. We also want to work on the boys rooms as well. Truthfully, I don't know what's going to happen now because as it stands, tax return may simple fix the negative balance in our checking account. I hope that things with that actually get resolved today. I'm actually supposed to hear back from someone today about the refund status of a check that wasn't supposed to be cashed. Anyway,…
Elliott made his triumphant return to school this morning after a two week Christmas break. I thought we would have more of a problem this morning but he did amazingly well. He seemed almost excited to be back. :-) I'm super proud of him.