Being a single Mom or Dad is a tremendous amount of responsibility. Being a single parent to special needs children is even more responsibility. I'm learning to navigate those challenges as we speak. Both Elliott and Emmett have outgrown their winter coats. I mentioned that I had looked over the weekend because I knew we had cold weather coming in. As I'm not independently wealthy, I had planned on replacing them one at a time, starting with Emmett because he needed it the most. Next I planned on replacing Elliott's and then Gavin's. Gavin's jacket is relatively new and he hasn't grown in awhile. He's actually in pretty good shape but I feel like his sleeves are too short and want to replace his as well. It's just not urgent.…

Man, I didn't sleep well last night. Emmett ended up in my room pretty early on. He tried for hours to fall asleep in his bed but couldn't. As soon as his head hit the pillow, after returning to my room, ahe was out like a light. He's really struggling with feeling safe and there's a fine line between enabling that fear and helping him to work through it. I don't feel comfortable banning him from my room at night. He's been traumatized twice now and is terrified that I'm going to leave him too. How do I turn him away and force him to sleep in fear? At the same time, this obviously can't go on forever and I personally need him back in his own bed at night.…

I started a conversation on Twitter tonight because I needed some advice. I explained that I'm struggling a bit to find my footing as a newly single Dad. There's a lot of mix emotions and that makes gaining traction a bit harder for me. There are times when the positives as apparent and times where they are drowned out by pain, sadness and heartache. It's these times that I need help with. I simply asked my followers to help me come up with some positive things about being single. I'm struggling a bit trying to find my footing as a newly single Dad. I thought I would come up with a list of positive things about being single but I'm struggling with that. Can you help me come up with…

I realized something today but before I get into it, there's some background that you need to understand first. Ever since the day my kids were born, I've been a very, very hands on Dad. I'm with them every single day. I'm there when they go to bed and when they wake up (barring overnight trips to Grandparents). I take them to every single appointment they have and those appointments are many. I take them to and pick them up from school every day. While it's a great deal of work, I wouldn't have it any other way. One of the other things I've done every single year was take my kids trick or treating. There were years where the weather interfered or we were sick but outside of those…