I haven't written much today.  I'm so beyond overwhelmed that I can barely think. This morning started off bad and continued through those evening.  I was running late getting Elliott to school today.  It normally only takes a few minutes but apparently there must have been a pretty major water main break that had traffic a bit congested.  Did I mention I was already late? Cause I was. After that, Lizze, Emmett and I went to Walmart to go grocery shopping.  After arriving however, we discovered that the store was without power and we would have to drive to the other side of town. We finally arrived and managed to get all of our shopping done and Emmett was a really big help.  However, after going through the self checkout…

I hate the time change.  I hate it with every fiber of my being. Arbitrarily changing the time forward and backwards is not compatible with raising children that have #Autism.  In my experience, their bodies don't adjust easily to the change.  In fact, it takes my kids weeks, yes I said weeks, to adjust to the change. During that time, I'll experience nights like the one I had last night.  The kids will wake up in the middle night and not be able to go back to sleep. Last night happen to be Elliott's turn. I was already sleeping on the couch so that Lizze had a better chance of sleeping. Elliott came down at like 3am and would go back to sleep. It's like that 1 hour change in…

Elliott has been really sad today and I'm concerned about him. It seems that he's preoccupied with something but won't talk about it.  The only thing I can really do is make sure he knows that he can talk to me about anything and at anytime. There is a chance he's getting sick. That could explain his demeanor today. The school told us today that there is a stomach bug going around and it's hitting a lot of the students.  I'm really hoping that he's not sick but at the same I wouldn't like it if he was indeed sad about something. Right now,  he's my sad little panda.

We had to do some running around this morning.  Along the way, Emmett sorta passed out in his car seat.  He looked really cute with his leg all propped up.  After days filled with screaming, it's nice to experience some of these lighter moments for a change. :-)

This was my experience at the polls this morning.  I'm not suggesting that this is an actual problem, but I felt uncomfortable with it. I voted this morning but it took quite some time.  I didn't struggle with who I was voting for.  The problems was that I was challenged.  That basically means that for some reason, I was flagged. I don't know if it's random or what. The problem had to be resolved with me filling out a 10u form. The form was broken up into sections based on the reason for me being challenged in the first place. However, the Election Official on hand, didn't know how to fill it out.  His instructions to me were to "fill out the whole thing. If you do that, whatever is…

I write about this twice a year, every year, because I hate it each and every time, no pun intended. Twice a year we move the clocks either forward or backwards. This is known to us as the dreaded time change. I use the word dreaded because it's a really unpleasant time in the Lost and Tired household. I have a wife and 3 children on the #Autism spectrum and they never handle the change of time well.  Their sleep cycles are all thrown off and typically, it takes a few weeks for them to ever so slowly adjust. Until they finally adjust, it means very early mornings. Today began at 3 am, with Elliott waking up and being unable to fall back asleep. We go through this every time. …