I want to share this with you because my admitting this and talking about it, perhaps we can quash some of the stigma associated with families in need. Unfortunately, our lives have taken a turn for the more challenging.  The issue with my bank haven't been worked out yet and I'm beginning to think they never will. Anyway, that's really put a hurtin' on our financial situation.  We basically lost $2,400 and that has been devastating for us.  We aren't able to absorb that kind of loss or any loss for that matter.  Unfortunately,  we have hit a point that we were in desperate need of help.  In order to make sure our family survived this period of time we had to visit a local food bank.  Rather, Lizze went…

Lately it seems like my boys are at each others throats almost constantly.  This morning has not been an exception..  In fact, so far, it's been a particularly bad day, as far as the two of them fighting goes.  I want to be very careful here because I don't want to jinx myself. However, right now we appear to experiencing a moment of peace between the two boys.  It's a fragile peace at best but peace nonetheless. I'll take what I can get.   This site is managed via WordPress for Android, courtesy of the @SamsungMobileUS Galaxy Note 2 by @Tmobile. Please forgive any typos. I know how to spell but auto-correct hates me.  ;-) For more ways to help the Lost and Tired family, please visit Help the Lost and Tired Family.

I wanted to take a few minutes tonight and just let everyone know how my battle with depression is going.  I think that depression is one of the most stigmatized of the mental health conditions. I've never quite understood why that is but it's definitely stigmatized.  It seems like no one ever wants to talk about it. I'm the kind of person that doesn't really care to much about what people think. I mean I do but I don't.  Does that make sense? If someone looks down on me because I speak publically about my depression, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.  When I'm doing what I truly feel is the right thing to do, I can't afford to care about what other people think, especially if…

I was thinking today and I realized something. Emmett both loves and hates stickers, all at the same time. I know that probably sounds weird. Emmett absolutely loves to get stickers and stick then to anything he can, including his entire body.  At the same time, if there is a sticker on something and he didn't put it there, it's not tolerated......at all. He compulsively has to remove any and all stickers or labels from any food items.  Yesterday, he had a thing of TicTacs. The first thing he had to do was remove the stickers/labels from the container. He also can't stand labels on bottles of water of pop.  For example, if Lizze has a bottle of Coke (the drink not the powder), as soon as she's not looking,…