Sensory Friendly Christmas If your special needs family is anything like mine, you are likely facing the same or similar dilemma as the Lost and Tired family is. That dilemma is what to do for the holidays. For many families, what to do for the holidays is a relatively simple task. For the Lost and Tired family, we have a much more difficult and complicate task of trying a provide a sensory friendly Christmas. What is a sensory friendly Christmas?   Well, that's actually a very good question and one I'm not sure I have the answer to. Essentially, a sensory friendly Christmas is one that does not cause or at least attempts to prevent overstimulation. This is not an easy task, especially if you have multiple kids on the Autism Spectrum with…

Last night we had a very rare opportunity.  Lizze and I got out of the house for a little while.  Believe it or not we went out to dinner..alone. This almost never happens but it did tonight. We have our family to thank for this opportunity to get away. Thank you      Posted from WordPress for Android

I thought I would try out the new panoramic feature on my new Verizon phone.  This is a view of the main therapy room at the always amazing Concorde Kids. The picture is a bit compressed due to the watermarking app,  so I'm not sure how it turned out. Posted from WordPress for Android

I'm currently sitting at therapy with Gavin. He has OT,  PT and speech therapy today,  back to back to back. Every Monday,  I sit here for at least 1.5 hours while he received the therapy he needs.  I'm so grateful that he has this but honestly,  it gets old after awhile and the time just sorta drags on and on. Tuesday's and Wednesday's,  Emmett has the very same back to back to back therapy sessions. By the time it's all said and done,  I spend over 5 hours in therapy with the boys and that does not include when Elliott starts. It also doesn't include the other therapies and doctors appointments through out the week. I figured that many others out there do similar things and so I thought I…

After many,  many years with Sprint,  we decided it was time for a change. Over the past year,  the service in my area has gone down hill,  dramatically. As we haven't had a land line in probably 4 or 5 years,  we relied solely on our cell phones.  As early adopters of smartphones,  we have come to rely of them heavily for all forms of communication with the outside world.  Sprints data service over the past 8 months has been quite literally, unusable. Many people have been switching to Sprint for their unlimited plans.  This surge of new customers overwhelmed and already saturated network causing capacity issues.  Basically,  more people were trying to use the service than Sprint could handle. To make matters worse,  Sprint recently spent $22 billion to…

It's only the first day of a 16 day Christmas break and I'm already a donkey on the edge.  The kids have already had enough of each other and Emmett is absolutely miserable.  If Emmett ain't happy,  ain't nobody happy. He woke up front his nap and has done nothing but scream and cry.  I can't seem to comfort him.  He wants things we don't have at the moment and I'm honestly not even sure what they are.  I picked him up and walked him out of the kitchen.  He was not happy and was kicking.  I wasn't prepared and he kicked me square in...um...my fellas. For a 3 year old,  he has a wicked kick.  I know he didn't mean to do that but that's not a whole lot…

I've only been up for a short time and already Gavin has managed to ask me the same question,  over and over and over and over.  To his credit,  at least he's asking the same question in different ways.  Although,  it doesn't make it any easier to take.  It's like listening to a scratched record,  repeating the same chorus,  over and over..  It drives me to the brink of insanity. It gets to the point where I just have to send him to his room.  What do you folks do to survive the repetition?  Posted from WordPress for Android

I love all of my kids,  I really,  truly do.. With that said,  Emmett is requiring me for absolutely everything.  He is glued to my side and I can't seem to get any alone time until he goes to bed. I don't know where this phase came from but he won't let Lizze help him with anything right now.  I love having Emmett's unending and undivided attention,  however, I'm gonna need a break or an Emmettectomy if you will. :-) Posted from WordPress for Android