Elliott slept pretty well last night. He snuggled with Dean and slept through the night. Dean and Sam have been rather elusive lately and so he was happy to be reunited with his friend. Perhaps that helped to make today begin on a positive note.
I wanted to mention this because hopefully, it's a good sign for what the rest of the week will be like. Elliott has been struggling with life lately. As a little boy with aspergers and significant anxiety, he's unable to cope well with everything that has been happening within our life. He's still upset about Gavin not living with us right now and understandably so. His recent diagnosis of food allergies as eliminated a huge part of his diet because it contains tree nuts. What happens is that Elliott copes with this by trying to exert as much control over his life as possible. This presents as refusal to do things like eating and even cooperating. Lately, we have been having a really hard time getting him ready for school. …
Lizze was kind enough to let me go back to sleep this morning. After taking Elliott to school I just couldn't keep my eyes open. Even after a couple of hours, I'm still dead to the world. I think that life is just catching up to me a little bit. I'm really stressed out right now and I'm truly overwhelmed by a great many things. I'm going to have a healthy lunch and refuel my body. With any luck, that will help. Lizze got me a book on Green Smoothies and while they probably are horribly disgusting, I'm anxious to give them a try. I'm all about healthy eating and that's about as healthy as you can get.
We unexpectedly ended up at my parents house on Sunday afternoon. This was due to the whole Rogue thing. Anyway, Emmett immediately makes himself comfortable, as he so often does. However, this time is was a bit different than he normally does. This time, as you can see below, he only took one shoe and one sock off. Oddly enough, he spent the next 4+ hours this way. I thought that was a little strange because he's always so particular about both feet feeling the same way. In fact, I would have thought this would be downright uncomfortable but to each his own I guess. I'm not sure if this is a victory or not. Having said that, he did keep the rest of them on so that's definitely a…
This whole thing with losing Rogue today has brought up a lot of old memories. It's sorta funny how something like this can spark so many memories, long buried and forgotten and bring them to the surface for you to relive. The events of Sunday have certainly done that for me. I had completely forgotten that Rogue was by my side when I laid eyes on the woman that would become my best friend, my wife and the mother of my children, for the very first time. If it wasn't for Rogue, I would never have been at the park that day. That being the case, mine and Lizze's paths may never have crossed. For that reason alone, I will be forever grateful to my overly enthusiast and always shedding …
Let me clarify something. My personal choice to not shop at Pet Smart, is just that, my personal choice. I'm not asking, suggesting or even hinting that anyone else should follow suit. I also know that this very likely isn't how Pet Smart does business usually. Having said that, this was in fact our experience, inside the Banfield Animal Hospital that is located inside of Pet Smart. If nothing else, In would think that Pet Smart would want to know that this occurred so that they can ensure it doesn't happen to another family. This blog is all about my family’s personal experiences. This is one of those experiences and it greatly affected us, therefore I feel it's does belong here. Again, I'm simply sharing why I personally, will not…
How do you explain death to a young child with #Autism? Rouge, my very first dog is going to be put down today. Elliott and Emmett were really close to her and so we felt that we should give them the chance to say goodbye. Emmett doesn't understand but Elliott, poor Elliott is devastated. I'm trying to comfort him as best I can. Please keep her and Elliott in your thoughts and prayers.
I mentioned earlier that we were supposed to go to Cleveland and visit my Mom's side of the family. It's been a really long time since we have been there and we were excited at the prospect of going. Enter life....... Unfortunately, our plans have changed once again. Elliott is unwilling to leave the house. The idea of leaving the house is what actually triggered the massive meltdown he had earlier. Normally, he loves going to visit relatives but lately he just can't seem to handle it. Lizze and I have learned to follow their cues, even if we don't necessarily like what those cues are telling us. I even tried to get Elliott to go to the store and pick out decorations for the Christmas tree. I thought it…