Any minute now, a delivery truck will be dropping off our brand spank'n new gas range. My parents decided to surprise us for Christmas with a new range. We were originally going to convert from gas to electric but our panel would need upgraded to the tune of about $2,000 and that's simply not worth it. We actually prefer gas but our old gas range made everything sticky. Although truthfully, everyone says there must have been something wrong with our gas range because that's never happened to them. Anyway, I pulled the old one out a couple days ago and made room for the new one. We're so grateful for this. It's been way too long since we've had a fully working stove. We've found ways to work around it…

I have been sorta off the grid for a couple days and there's a few reasons for that. Mostly it's because I'm depressed, tired and just haven't had the energy to put my thoughts together. Another is that I've been hit with a couple hate mobs and even a death threat on Twitter. Most Autistic adults are amazing people and I'm blessed to have many as friends. My wife is Autistic and so are all my kids. There's a very small, but incredibly vocal subset of Autistic adults who are very aggressive, rude, hateful, intolerant and simply mean people. They say some truly vile things and seem to think it's okay to threaten people who don't agree with them. I was lucky enough to the target of these hate mobs,…

We had a pretty great Christmas this year. The boys had an awesome day and we're really proud of them. Lizze and I got to bed relatively early last night and got up about 7 AM, so the kids could open their presents. Our rule is, they can raid their stockings after 6 AM but no presents until 7AM. Considering the level of impulsivity our boys deal with, they manage to do remarkably well with this rule. ☺ The overall theme this year was Nerf Laser Tag. We thought they would enjoy the change of pace and we were right. They love the new Nerf Laser Tag guns. They also got a bunch of other things but the Nerf stuff is what will likely be their focus. I'm really proud…