As parent to 3 boys on the #Autism spectrum,  I have been witness to some peculiar behaviors and routines at times. The latest peculiar habit belongs to my sweet Emmett John.  It actually gave us a chuckle last night.  For some reason, Emmett has to take one shoe and one sock off before he walks upstairs to brush his teeth and try potty before bed.  After he brushes his teeth and uses the potty, he takes his last shoe and sock off before climbing into bed.  We have no idea why he does this but he does this quite often. It's really kinda cute but I'm not sure the he even realizes that he's doing this.  I think it's kind of an automatic thing and he doesn't actually think about…

Thank goodness it's Friday.  Yesterday was a really long.  Elliott will be home today because he wasn't feeling well last night and was up really, really late. I'm really, really hoping that it's not the stomach bug that going around the school. Emmett is in what appears to be another fever flare.  He has sores all over his tongue again. Having said that, Emmett is chilling on the couch with his best friend, Bellamy. She's snuggling with him and helping him to feel better.

Perhaps this is going to sound weird but a few months back,  I asked a similar question.  I asked what kids show you hated the most.  That was a hugely successful discussion. I thought it would be interesting to ask you what your favorite kids show is. Don't be embarrassed, we all have them.  The truth is that sometimes our kids can like a certain show or cartoon that we as parents, actually don't mind watching.  In my case, I like the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series. I grew up with TMNT and I don't mind saying that I enjoy watching them with my boys.  Your turn.  :-)

I wanted to update you all on the current status of Operation Hope. In short, we've made no further progress in the Gavin front. We have however, made some progress on the Lizze front. I have had her to the Cleveland Clinic twice already and she has found new doctors that she absolutely loves.  This is a huge positive because Lizze is very picky about her health care providers. I'm happy because they are from the Cleveland Clinic and that means they are among the best in the country.  As far as Gavin goes, wraparound is waiting for records to get released and transfered so they can fill out the required paperwork to submit for funding. Honestly, things are going much slower than I had anticipated and that makes me…

I haven't written much today.  I'm so beyond overwhelmed that I can barely think. This morning started off bad and continued through those evening.  I was running late getting Elliott to school today.  It normally only takes a few minutes but apparently there must have been a pretty major water main break that had traffic a bit congested.  Did I mention I was already late? Cause I was. After that, Lizze, Emmett and I went to Walmart to go grocery shopping.  After arriving however, we discovered that the store was without power and we would have to drive to the other side of town. We finally arrived and managed to get all of our shopping done and Emmett was a really big help.  However, after going through the self checkout…

I hate the time change.  I hate it with every fiber of my being. Arbitrarily changing the time forward and backwards is not compatible with raising children that have #Autism.  In my experience, their bodies don't adjust easily to the change.  In fact, it takes my kids weeks, yes I said weeks, to adjust to the change. During that time, I'll experience nights like the one I had last night.  The kids will wake up in the middle night and not be able to go back to sleep. Last night happen to be Elliott's turn. I was already sleeping on the couch so that Lizze had a better chance of sleeping. Elliott came down at like 3am and would go back to sleep. It's like that 1 hour change in…