I feel like Dorothy from the Wizard of OZ. However, the tornado that came through was named Gavin and we were all sucked up and magically transported to the land of Meltdownville. Mr. Emmett John has been melting down all day long.  Lizze and I even took the boys to the playground to get some wiggles out and that didn't even help much.  Emmett melted down in the grocery store, in the parking lot and the car ride home.  He melted down in the house,  on the porch and the front lawn.  I haven't seen him like this in awhile. In fact, the last time was when Gavin was home for Christmas break.  Meltdownville is not a fun to visit, let alone live in.  My heart breaks for Emmett because…

In my never ending quest to improve the lives of special needs families, I've decided to begin compiling a list of local community resources.  Here's what I'm doing.  I'm collecting information about local community resources for special needs families.  Things like early childhood intervention, psychological care, pediatricians, dentists, therapists (Ot, PT, Speech), children's hospitals, government agencies etc.  These will be broken down by State and County.  My goal is to obtain this information in pdf form so that I can host it directly from my server and make it available for download/printing. By simply listing the information, I am in no way endorsing any of these organizations, unless otherwise stated. Please help me to help special needs families across the USA. As I have readers from almost every country around…

Check out this new cat video I found on YouTube.  It's a compilation of funny cat videos.  My boys spent the entire time cracking up.  Check it out, it's pretty funny.  :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBAGEeOms-8 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 and unique #Autism Awareness Clothing and Accessories, designed by me. ;-) For more ways to help the Lost and Tired family, please visit Help the Lost and Tired Family.

You would do not believe the impact that stress can have on the human body. Well, maybe you can. I mean, anyone that's a parent, let alone a special needs parent, is probably all too familiar with stress. This past week has been extremely stressful for the Lost and Tired family. It's started out fine but then that sneaky bastard known as Monday, showed it's ugly face once again, throwing our lives further into chaos. Between Gavin being rushed to the ER at Akron Children's Hospital for another autonomic crisis then returning home for almost a week, planning for our next wraparound meeting, Elliott being home from school all week with a nasty sinus infection, scrambling to locate resources that will help us with our pending gas shut off tomorrow…