It's been a challenging day so far. Emmett's glasses broke over the weekend and his backup glasses were somehow never adjusted to actually fit him properly, so they are painful to wear. He wore them to school and before I even arrived home from walking this morning, the school had called because Emmett was not feeling well and his glasses hurt. I told them that I would be in to pick him up and we'd go get his glasses ordered. We'd also get his backups adjusted so he can wear them until the new ones arrived. I figured it'd be about a week or so. I was not looking forward to a week of Emmett without his glasses. The whole not feeling good thing was combination of things. It was…

Life has sorta been swirling around me for a little while now and I'm losing track of some things. One of those things was that today being the last day of Summer. When the kids wake up in the morning, they will be waking up to the first day of Fall. I'm a big fan of the change of seasons. I had so many plans for this Summer but they've been derailed and that's okay. The kids were having a pretty good morning but began lashing out at each other as the day went on. It wasn't anything crazy but they feed off each other and things will just esculate if not redirected. Since I did all the major running around on Saturday, before they came home, we had the…

I have a very special plan for the day today. My goal is to try and fill the kids day with normalcy. What I mean by that is I want to focus on these guys just being kids today. There's so much going on in their lives right now causing them pain and distress. I can't control that, nor can I take their pain away. All I'm able to do is make sure that they know they're loved, that I'll never leave them and that their only job is to be a kid. Unfortunately, kids in general are subjected to many adult issues and while it's true that kids are resilient, that shouldn't be considered a free pass to force grownup issues on them. It can be difficult to distract…

The kids are really quiet and Emmett's still not feeling well. I think this is all transitional/emotional in nature. On the positive side of things, no one is fighting. The boys and I are spending the day watching DC animated movies in honor of Batman Day. It's been awhile since I've been able to get all three of the kids to watch the same thing at the same time.

The boys are home from their mom/grandparents house and seem to have had a really awesome visit. That's great and I feel like progress is being made in the right direction. I've been busy all morning getting all the running around done. I really pushed myself to get this stuff done because for whatever reason, I thought it was Sunday and the kids had school in the morning. The days are sorta blending together anymore. Either way, at least it's done. One of my errands was to the grocery store where just the basics ran me about $170. I wish food were cheaper and the sensory issues my kids deal with, were easier/cheaper to manage. I got the groceries put away and dinner in the slow cooker. There's still laundry…

I had a fairly quiet,and uneventful night. I never heard from the boys, which likely means that everything is going well and that's awesome. I chose to be super lazy and not do much of anything. There were a million things that needed done but I rarely get unrestricted, guiltfree downtime. The kids will be home in a couple hours, so I'm going to run out to the store and get the things we need for lunches this week. If I don't go now, I'll have drag everyone with me. In the event that anyone comes home upset, I don't want to have to do that. I got up early and will be heading out shortly.