In the span of 15 minutes, things went from bad to worse. Dominion just came and shut off our natural gas. This means no heat, no hot water and no stove. We've been struggling with them for some time now because I have gotten behind. We've tried everything, including PIPP (percentage of income payment plan). Unfortunately, Dominion would not accept PIPP on our account until we got current (which was around $700). PIPP basically makes your payment smaller but doesn't represent your actual expense. For example.  Say my PIPP payment was $50/month. My actual cost was usually at least $200+ per month, often much, much more. During the winter, our house bleeds heat. It's over a hundred years old and as inefficient as possible.  Our balance has grown over the…

This morning was a complete disaster.  Elliott had a massive meltdown this morning and came up with every reason imaginable, not to go to school. He was freaking out on Lizze pretty hard core.  I was barely able to get him out the door.  By the time I did manage to get on our way this morning, we were well past being late.  On the way to school, I may have uncovered the reason for Elliott's recent reluctance to attend school.  Apparently, there is a new little boy in his class that struggles.  He gets very frustrated and has meltdowns, very loud meltdowns. I don't know exactly how aggressive these get but I will be talking to his teacher. Whatever is going on, is scaring Elliott to the point that…

I wanted to update you all as to what has gone on in the current team building quest at the Cleveland Clinic.  We got a call today from endocrinology and have an appointment for this Thursday. That's unbelievably quick and not a moment too soon.  We are waiting to hear back from psychiatry and her OB/GYN.  She needs appointments with them as well this week.  I don't know how I'm going to get her there but hopefully something with work out and I will be able to make these appointments work. She can't afford to wait...  I'll carry her on my back if I have to.  She needs this and I'm gonna figure out a way to put has in the car and get her there.  If you don't mind…

Sometimes I can't believe what I'm willing to do to get my kids to eat dinner.  As many of you out there are familiar with, feeding a kid on the Autism Spectrum can be difficult. As a parent that really tries to feed my kids healthy foods, I hate making some of the compromises I have to in order to get them to eat. I suppose it's a lesser of two evils kinda thing.  Sigh.... Last night, I tried several different things before stumbling on this delicious combination.  Chocolate chip waffles and garlic bread.... This site is managed via WordPress for Android, courtesy of the @SamsungMobileUS Galaxy Note 2 by @Tmobile. Please forgive any typos as autocorrect HATES me. ;-) Check out my #Autism Awareness Store to find really cool…

I wanted to talk to you about how I'm going to be doing things for a little while.  Let me be a bit more specific.  I want to talk to you about how I'm going to be doing things with my writing.  Through some miracle, people like listening to what I have to say.  I can't honestly say why but I'm grateful and amazed nonetheless.  In order to continue Lost and Tired's exponential growth, I would need to branch out and embrace more of the available social media.  It's seems that most people on the Web, in similar positions to me,  focus on one main area.  For example, some really good friends of mine do amazing things on Facebook or Google+.  They have an enormous following on these platforms and…