It's 3am and I'm still awake because the boys are struggling after a brief visit with their mom. Elliott managed to fall asleep, but Emmett had a nightmare, and refuses to go back to bed for fear it's going to happen again. Then of course, there's Gavin. Poor Gavin had a particularly bad night. He came home and immersed himself in video games. That's not unusual for him but tonight he became frustrated, punched his phone, and shattered the screen. He became so angry with himself and it just spiraled from there. He went from being upset about the same things his brothers were upset about some things that to raging about how angry he is was me for destroying his life. He actually used those words. In the almost…

I'm going to be honest. The level of overwhelmed that I'm currently at is tough for me to manage. There's a great deal of change occurring in my life all at once and while most of it is positive, not all of it is. To top it all off, we got hit with a whammy tonight. I'll just start out by saying that I realize that I'm not thinking about all this as clearly as I could be. I'm distracted and exhausted. I had to move a meeting this morning because Elliott was home from school and I need to take care of a few things that came up at the last minute. After that, I crashed for a good chunk of the day. Elliott was home sick, Emmett was…