The Lost and Tired family wanted to wish you and yours, a safe and happy Thanksgiving.. May it be underwhelming so as not to overstimulate anyone in your family and cause distress.

I wanted to take a few minutes and update you all as to the status of the Lost and Tired blog. Last Friday I found out that I was getting too much traffic on this site to remain on the server I migrated to back in October. Bluehost informed me that I would need to upgrade to a more advanced and subsequently more expensive server. I asked for help to keep the site online and with your help, I was able to move to the new server. Problem solved? Not exactly. The migration didn't go smoothly.  I've been on the phone with Bluehost support almost everyday for one thing or another. I'm still experiencing what appears to be an outage but it's pretty random. I keep getting messages from people…

Gavin is gone and the boys are settling into their old routines. I hung out with Elliott for a couple hours tonight. He's really struggling with this new allergy thing and Gavin going back to his grandparents. Elliott's really worried about eating something that will make him need to use his Epipen.  I'm hoping that we can help him work through this and put him mind at ease.  For right now, he's sleeping all snuggled up with Ms. Bella. Right before I snapped this picture, he had his arms around her. It was the cutest thing ever.  I was to slow on the draw and missed it. 

I was wondering how you all handle the holidays with your child on the #Autism spectrum?  Right now, in the US, we are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. I'm not entirely sure how tomorrow is going to go.  I know that my boys are already on overload and probably don't need anymore stimulus. However, being with family will be a pleasant distraction for them and us. Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about the environment because we have no control over that. Having said that, in my family, if they say we are eating at 2pm, plan to eat around 4pm instead.  In order to limit the anxiety and stress from anticipation, we arrive fashionably late. We will bring something to occupy the boys if they need to get…

I wanted to start a dialog about food allergies.  As many of you already know, Elliott has been diagnosed with a tree nut allergy,  more specifically to almonds. We aren't new to food allergies but Emmett's previous food allergies were not this serious.  I wanted to share resources we have found and hopefully learn about some new ones that can help us and anyone else reading, to more safely navigate this new world of food hazards. I found an app in the Google Play store called InRFood. The app itself has much promise but the bar code scanner is not working most of the time.  Let's share app ideas, whether iPhone or Android. Feel free to also share experience and types of allergies as well.

As you may recall, a few days ago Elliott was officially diagnosed with serious allergy to almonds.  His immunologist wants any and all tree nuts removed from his diet and he must carry an epipen of his person, at all times. This is a pretty big hit and we weren't prepared for this.  We literally just moved past Emmett's food allergies to milk, egg and lactose. I think he was officially declared allergy free about 2 months ago. Now we are scrambling to figure out what Elliott can and cannot eat.  Once again the rug is yanked out from under us.  Poor Elliott is really upset and is becoming paranoid that there's some type of tree nut in everything he eats. We've also had to introduce him to his new…