The boys arrived home just a few minutes ago.  I was however, distressed to learn that Emmett woke up and wanted to come home about 2am this morning.  My mother tried calling both my phone and Lizze's phone.  However, the calls went straight to voicemail and never rang through to our phone.  I would like to thank @Sprint for still not addressing the network issues we are still experiencing.  I don't expect perfection and I understand that there will be dropped calls.  However, things are becoming way too unreliable and now my kids are paying the price. I appreciate the replacement phones but they aren't any better. Emmett was crying and my parents couldn't get a hold of us because our phones weren't receiving any calls.  That's something that really…

Yesterday while I was mulching the leaves, there was an accident.  This little baby snake got caught up in the process.  I thought it was actually dead but it wasn't.  It was however, injured.  The boys were pretty upset by it and decided that we should take care of it, so it can get better. This little guy or girl is only a few inches long.  I wanted to embrace and encourage my kids compassion for even the smallest among mother nature's creatures. I pulled an old aquarium out of the basement and set up a nice little temporary  home.  The goal being to release it in the spring. I use to have snakes when I was younger so I know how to care for them. I also figured that…

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Lizze and I had a very low key evening last night. After dropping the boys off at my parents house we went to the grocery store and grabbed some necessities.  We also picked up a few things for dinner as well. Lizze was not feeling well last night and fell asleep on the couch while watching Netflix.. She's still sleeping at 10 am this morning. I got up to let the dogs out and eat breakfast.  I don't know when the boys will be home so right now, it's all about getting some rest.  Hopefully, Lizze will be feeling better today. 

I met with the school this morning to go over Elliott's IEP. We discussed where Elliott is and what he needs help with.  We spoke about my personal goals for Elliott future. As it turns out, Elliott is doing extremely well.  He's either at or exceeding what he should be doing and that's so good to hear.  I'm not really surprised by hearing all these positive things about Elliott and I'm filled with pride.  The one thing that he really needs to work on is his writing.  He still transposes certain letter and numbers.  It not dyslexia but he has this need to write his letters from the bottom up, instead of top to bottom. His teachers think that's what's causing the confusion for him. He is however, resistant to…

At least for today, I'm in a really bad place. My stress level is such that I'm not sleeping and my coping skills are not as effective anymore. On occasion, I become so stressed that I can no longer focus on the things that really matter.  Instead,  I begin noticing things that I don't have or once had. For the record, I'm not proud of this but it's how I'm left to cope.  For example.  There are things that I have always done for myself, sorta like a tradition. I have upgraded to a new Samsung Galaxy S phone, on launch day. Since I do almost all of my work from my mobile phone, I benefit from improvements as does my blog. The only other thing that I always, always…