A word of advice to anyone out there that would mess with my kids, don't do it. While I would put you in the ground myself, I discovered last night that I they can be vindictive little boogers. Emmett was frustrated with Maggie because she was intimidating his kitten, Sam, with her presence. Honestly, Maggie wasn't doing anything but Emmett felt that he was defending his kitten. I let him do just that.  I like to see my kids stand up for themselves, it makes me feel better about their future. I don't know if that even makes sense? Anyway, I suggested that Emmett put Maggie in her kenel for a little while, so his kitten would be scared. He did just that.  He put Maggie in her kenel. Maggie…

As you may recall, Emmett is no longer in OT or Speech therapy. We have had to try and come up with things we can do at home, that will help him in these areas. Yesterday, I couldn't get him to settle down. He was completely overstimulated from Gavin's visit and was literally bouncing off of everyone and everything. Out of desperation I was like, Emmett I need you to hold the wall up for me buddy. I had him pushing against the wall as hard as he could.  Wouldn't you know it, it helped. After Lizze got home, she reminded me that his OT had suggested something like that as well.  She said we could have him push against the wall and get some sensory feedback.  We could also…

Let me just go on the record as saying that I don't necessarily believe that my recent experience with Sprint represents the entirety of the company. I'm sure their areas that get much better service and customer service representatives that do their job quite well. This is just my personal experience. Yours may be different than mine After being a Sprint customer for many years, with a brief break to explore greener pastures, the Lost and Tired family is saying goodbye to our longtime cell carrier. Here's the problem that we along with millions of other customers are facing, data speeds.  Data on the Sprint network, at least in the areas of Ohio that I frequent, is essentially useless. Personally, I'm someone who uses a good bit of data. We…

Gavin has been home less than 24 hours and has already had a massive tantrum. I'm watching all three boys while Lizze is at a family function.  This is really important to her because she needs to spend time with some of her family while she can. Anyway, here's what happened. Gavin and Emmett were playing with a slinky on the steps. While they were playing, the slinky was dropped over the side of the steps and tangled up in the cord for the Christmas tree. Let me just say that I hate the slinky. However, putting my personal disdain for the slinky aside, I fixed it for them once again. I simply asked how the slinky got tangled in the tree.. I explained that no one was in trouble, I just…

Elliott actually seems to have slept pretty well.  Hopefully this will put him in a good mood today.  Lizze has a family function today and so I will be blessed with all 3 boys, by myself and for the entire day. Gavin's actually doing pretty well but he still has to be constantly supervised and that's exhausting. Having said that, today's family function is very important to Lizze so I'll just suck it up and muscle through the day. Again, at least Elliott slept...

In about 15 minutes, Emmett and I will be entering our very first Operation Hope, team wraparound meeting.  This is the meeting that will help to get the ball rolling on our funding petition for Gavin to be placed in residential care. This will be a really small meeting because it will be Dr. Patti, Gavin's teachers and our wraparound coordinator, Shelly. Of course,myself and Emmett will be in attendance. Lizze is actually with Gavin today and won't be able to attend.  I'm also hoping that this will be short and sweet because I'm exhausted from being up with Elliott last night.