I apologize a head of time for any typos. My eye's are rolling into the back of my head as I'm finishing this. I'm correct any grammar blemishes in the morning. For those who are new here, this Thanksgiving is the first Thanksgiving or holiday for that matter, that we will be spending as a family in almost two years. Lizze and I went through a separation for about 18 months and only reconciled this past June. Things are great between her and I. The separation really had nothing to do with issues between her and I but rather what we've recently learned was caretaker burnout. There's more to the story than that but that pretty much sums it up. It was a difficult time for everyone, especially the boys. I really…

I thought I would share how Lizze and I have decided to handle Thanksgiving this year. There are many things that influenced our decisions but our number one priority is focusing on the kids. We are also paying attention to comfort levels because not everyone has fully accepted Lizze back into the family and we don't want to make anything more awkward than it needs to be. The biggest factor in our decision making process though, was Gavin. We need to limit his level of excitement, as per doctors orders. Having said all that, we will be going to dinner at my parents house. Most of my siblings will be at their significant others for dinner but will be stopping by for dessert. This will give us a chance to…

I woke up this morning not feeling well at all. Lizze got the boys ready for school, which wasn't easy. Emmett barely made it to school because he wasn't tolerating anything on his feet again. We tried everything to help including brushing, pressure and joint manipulation. Nothing worked. We were lucky that Emmett's desire to be at school, outweighed his intolerance for his foot covers today. It took the better part of an hour to work through this but the point is that we worked through it. I'm hoping to see more of this in the future. I took the boys to school and Emmett seemed to get off to a good start. After that, I slept until after noon. When I woke up, I felt much better and I'm…