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Update

Well as you know Emmett John was at the Children’s Hospital this morning. What you don’t know is that I got the flu last night. I had to stay behind. This was to important to reschedule. Lizze called her mother and she came and took her and Emmett John to the Hospital for the tests. …

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Children’s Hospital here we come….

As you may or may not be aware Emmett John has an appt. at the Children’s Hospital in the morning. It appears that Emmett John is profoundly deaf. He has been to the audiologist and failed the test. Although he wouldn’t let her but anything in his ears. He didn’t respond in any, way, shape …

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i commuted his sentence

Today has been a really long day. We had our ups and downs. Gavin really struggled today. He had earned himself oatmeal for lunch. He had also earned it for dinner for throwing another massive meltdown and choosing not to get control of himself. He did very good during quiet time and never snuck out …

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My wife’s blog is up……

http://dailymommysurvival.wordpress.com/

a follow up to the “perspective” post

I should follow up by saying this letter was written about 2 years ago. The adoption was successful about 1 1/2 years ago. However, even after the adoption the grandmother still came after us. In Dec 2009 the fifth district court of appeals ruled that our rights (including Gavin’s) had been grossly violated and that …

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To help put things into perspective……..

I thought I would post this.  This is the letter I wrote  to the judge about Gavin’s adoption.  I know the content of this blog is not uplifting very often so I thought I would share this letter I wrote to the judge. Things weren’t always this bad. I often return to this letter to help me …

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Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Gavin got up this morning and went to use the bathroom. We make him sit because it’s safer for everyone 🙂 Well this morning for some reason he refuses to tell us he stood up while he was peeing. So he peed all over and our bathroom is carpeted (horrible idea but we didn’t do …

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terrible, horrible, no good very bad day!!!

This day has gone on forever. It was crappy to start with and it ended crappy. All three of the kids are sick, Elliott Richard and Emmett John have puked at least 2 times each today. Gavin is being weird even for Gavin. This doesn’t make me feel good about the upcoming weekend. Lizze and …

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