I wrote a post the other day that talked about how, at least in my family, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. I'd like to back that claim up with the events of the past 2 days. Last night, I learned that my blog was at risk of being shut down do to the high volume of traffic. I'm currently working on resolving this issue. Thank you all for your donations to help me move to a new,  more powerful server. This morning, I was cleaning the first floor and letting Lizze sleep.  Shortly after Lizze can down, about 11:30am, we noticed a trail of blood on the floor.  Lizze and I, having watched many a crime show, are armchair forensic experts.  We tracked the source of the…

I wanted to share something that I'm really, very proud of.  Emmett, is continuing to make strides towards independence, even at 4 years of age.  Emmett has become quite determined to do things on his own. In general, this is a really good thing. Practically speaking, we can allow him to do some of what he wants to do, on his own. Some things are simply too dangerous. Even so, we try to find a balance between us helping him and him doing things independently.  In the pictures below, I was told, by Emmett, that he wanted to setup his toothbrush, all by himself.  I was happy to oblige. He did a really good job.  Seeing the look on his face when he succeeded was absolutely priceless. Seeking how clean…

Over the past few days, you may have noticed that my site is running rather slow or it's not functioning at all. That's actually past of the reason for me not posting as often lately. I just got off the phone with Tech support at bluehost. I have a rather large problem. This is both good and bad at the same time. Basically, the server is almost constantly throttling my site because I'm getting to much traffic for the shared server. They informed me that between October 16, 2012 and November 16, 2012, I have had over 1.5 million hits. What does this mean? On the plus side, I have a really popular site and a lot of people are finding something meaningful in my daily word vomit. For that,…

There is a chance that Gavin will be home all next week.  This may not come to pass but until we know otherwise, I feel like we should be prepared.  It's no hard not to worry about the impact this whole thing is having on both Elliott and Emmett. In fact, for us, it's literally impossible not to worry about the behaviors we are seeing.  For example, both boys are afraid to use the bathroom by themselves.  Emmett completely strip off all his clothes to go potty and then can't get himself dressed again. These are both things we moved beyond,as the year. The past few months, we have seen a growing trend of returning behaviors, we once thought to be overcome. It's easy to say, don't worry about it,…

I was wondering if anyone else is struggling to find balance? I'm struggling to find balance in my life.  As a special needs parent, writer and husband, I'm constantly being pulled in a thousand different directions.  More often than not, I find myself of center and being unable to juggle all the things in my life.  Considering how long I've been doing this, you'd think I would be better at it but I'm not. No matter how hard I try I'm still dropping the ball somewhere.  One would think that I'm doing a really good job and if a few balls hit the ground along the way, so be it.  That's a great point and I'd love to agree with you.  However, if one of the balls that hit the…

The other day I was able to get Elliott to sit still long enough to pose for a picture with his old man, although I'm not really old.  :-) I don't even remember where we were at when I took this but I love this picture and wanted to share.  :-)