I was so incredibly tired last night. I climbed into bed, well before midnight and planned on just passing out and relishing the extra sleep I was going to be giving myself.  Unfortunately, that sleep never arrived until many hours later. I laid in bed and closed my eyes but my brain just wouldn't shutdown.  Every single thing in my life that causes me stress or worry was being processed last night. I couldn't stop thinking about my divorce, how it's impacting the boys and my constant worry about Gavin's worsening symptoms.  It seems like such a cruel twist of fate to be so tired and yet unable to sleep.   

I mentioned in a previous post that we are moving to our school schedule about 2 weeks prior to the first day back.  The boys need ample time to adjust and then a helps to accomplish that.  I've been up and moving since my alarm went off this morning as well. No desperately needed naps for this guy.  I pushed through the exhaustion and found my second wind. 😀 I got my 20 minutes on the treadmill, which kicked my ass but I feel really good.  I do not like walking or running on the treadmill because it's harder to track actually distance with any degree of accuracy.  Walking the track at the park is like my absolute favorite thing to do at this point in my newly single Dad…

Kids on the Autism Spectrum are creatures of habit that typically don't do well with change. My kids are no exception.  When it comes to starting back at school, I've found that if we begin practicing our back to school routine a head of time, it sorta smooths out the transition a little bit. My kids go back to school on September 1st and so I've begun practicing bedtimes and wake up times with the boys.     I've set their bedtime for 9pm and wake up time for 7:15am.  My goal is to give them a little bit of time to adjust to everything before they have no choice.   I'm getting excited because in about two weeks, I'll finally be somewhat of a break during the day. I'll still…