My kids are Autistic we all know that. As much as I believe the world needs to be more accepting of my kids it may never happen. It's my job to prepare my kids to survive and if possible even thrive in this challenging world we live in. In order to do that I have to think outside the box. My kids are ALL VERY intelligent but can get "tunnel visioned" much to often and fail to see what's going on around them. My goal is to teach them to happy, healthy and productive members of society. So with that said, I have decided to take a slightly different approach to things with the boys. Traditional discipline has NEVER worked with my kids. Maybe it's an Autistic thing or maybe…

Easter "break" started early for the Lost and Tired family. Elliott is home sick......again. They all have no school today or tomorrow. Gavin's got a 4 day weekend and Elliott is off for Spring/Easter break next week. Emmett will return to school next week as well. It's going to be a VERY long weekend..... - Lost and Tired

When you have an Autistic child tooth brushing is a challenging task. Sometimes you can't find a way to get them to either brush their own teeth or let you brush them yourself. Other times it just requires a bit of outside the box thinking. Emmett doesn't like his own toothbrush but LOVES mine for some reason. I'm not one to share things like this but if it gets him to brush his teeth then we roll with that. Sometimes you have got to do what you got to do..... - Lost and Tired

As a special needs parent one of the things we NEVER get is a break. We just push ourselves through the exhaustion and sometimes pain just so we can do it all over again the next day. The kind of breaks we do get we could REALLY do without. I'm declaring shenanigans of Easter/Spring "break".  Can you say "bait and switch" or "false advertising"... If you use the word break in a sentence when speaking to a special needs parent you should be sure to specify WHO is ACTUALLY getting the break, because it certainly isn't us. When someone tells me that "Easter/Spring breaks starts tomorrow", my response is "HELL YEAH!! It'a about damn time. I'll have the kids packed up and ready to go. What time are you coming by to…

Just so you know, Gavin coined the phrase "Easter break". He informed me this morning that "today is my last day of school before what I like to call Easter break". He is convinced that he is the first person to ever call the period of time that occurs over Easter, "Easter break". He reminds me of Peggy Hill from the show "King of the hill". She was always taking other peoples well established ideas and taking credit for them. Gavin just kills me sometimes. However, since Gavin is the creator of the term "Easter break" (at least in his mind) we should be seeing some royalties or licensing fee's, right? Yeah...we're saved ;) 

Dear Wednesday, Please be kind to us today. Tuesdays was not really good to us. Wednesday, I'm hoping that you will bring with you Gavin's new medication and some peace for Lizze from her 2 week old migraine.  Wednesday, if your just going to bring us more problems like Tuesday did, I'll have to take comfort in knowing that Thursday is right behind you, hopefully bringing with it better luck.

Lizze is home and resting in bed. The hospital gave her some injections that were supposed to at least help with the pain and nausea. Unfortunately, the attempt was unsuccessful. She still has the migraine but the meds did make her sleepy so hopefully she will get some rest tonight and maybe wake up migraine free for the first time in 2 weeks.