I've literally been down all day and that means that Lizze has had to do all the things I normally do.  That may not seem like a big deal but there is a very good reason she wasn't doing them anymore. She handled the IEP meeting this morning and did a great job. This isn't downtime isn't something that I'm enjoying. While I can deal with the pain, my legs keep (the left one in particular) giving out.  I have no control over that.  It's like my body is physically enforcing limitations on the rest of me.  I have an L5/S1 left sided herniation.  The pain was supposed to go away inside of six months but that was 12 years ago.  There is a genetic component to this because my…

As you may or may not know, I suffered a major back I jury in 2001. The injury requires surgery to fix and because of how complicated our lives are, surgery was a risk I wouldn't take.  I simply played through the pain. I did so for over 10 years.  I can't begin to describe the amount of pain I was in for so long, except to say that I experienced some pretty dark times and it got to the point that I wanted to end my life.  When I began about 2 years ago, I finally experienced relief.  I've been doing pretty well since.  This past weekend, I knelt down to take a picture with my grandmother, while at my Dad's surprise birthday party.  That was all it took…

Shortly after dropping the boys off for school in the morning, Lizze and I will be attending Elliott's IEP meeting.  To be completely honest, I'm a bit confused by this.  Apparently, either Lizze or myself scheduled the meeting for yesterday morning without telling the other or putting it in the calendar. Neither Lizze or I remember doing this but we were reminded on Tuesday morning and decided to reschedule it for today at 8:30am. IEP meetings are a cake walk for us at Summit Academy Schools.  We never have to fight for anything and the process is smooth and pain free. Believe me, this is not something we take for granted. The one thing that we are going to push for is testing for reading dysfunction.  Elliott's still reversing both…

Last week we were going over Elliott's spelling words and even though he knew them inside and out, he freaked out because he didn't want to review them.  We reviewed them once a day and that was it.  Here's his spelling test from last week.  Looks like he did a pretty darn good job.  :-) This site is managed almost exclusively from my Galaxy S4. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired "Like" me on Facebook Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me   Setup of an account with Bluehost and I get paid. If your looking for a host for your website or blog. Click the image below and check out Bluehost. It's what I use.

While we were at Dr. Patti's office tonight, Emmett walked over to the the chalkboard, calmly drew a star and then wrote the word. I'm pretty impressed by this because I didn't know he could write the word star all by himself.  This site is managed almost exclusively from my Galaxy S4. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired "Like" me on Facebook Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me   Setup of an account with Bluehost and I get paid. If your looking for a host for your website or blog. Click the image below and check out Bluehost. It's what I use.

The boys are home and according to all of them, they each had a great day.  All three of them kept their points today and that's really good.  Gavin did get frustrated in Math class again but apparently wasn't disruptive and got himself under control. On the way home, the boys even helped my fill the water jugs. I couldn't have asked for them to have had a better day. Great job boys.  Mommy and Daddy are so proud of you.  :-) This site is managed almost exclusively from my Galaxy S4. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired "Like" me on Facebook Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me   Setup of an account with Bluehost and I get paid. If…

Sitting here waiting for the boys to be dismissed from school. We had a great morning and I'm really hoping that they had a really good day. Fingers crossed and prayers have been sent. I'm pretty confident that we can end the day on a positive note.  :-) This site is managed almost exclusively from my Galaxy S4. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Follow @Lost_and_Tired "Like" me on Facebook Visit the My Autism Help Forums To reach me via email, please Contact Me   Setup of an account with Bluehost and I get paid. If your looking for a host for your website or blog. Click the image below and check out Bluehost. It's what I use.

I don't know about you and yours but the Lost and Tired family really struggles with feeding our boys.  It's not that we don't have food, it's that my kids are very sensory oriented and don't tolerate many foods.  There's almost a zero percent chance of the boys eating cafeteria food on any given day.  They would rather go hungry.  The only solution is to pack their lunch.  Having said that, it's far from a perfect solution because finding something that's even remotely healthy and they'll eat, is damn near impossible.  Some of the things we've tried probably makes us look like terrible parents.  In truth, it's not that we're terrible parents, we're desperate parents.  We're parents that are willing to think outside the box, in order to ensure that…