My war with Depression began twenty-five years ago when I was in my teens. I had experienced trauma that sorta changed the way I viewed the world. Since that time, I've fought many battles against my Depression. Some of those battles were won, and some were lost, but the war rages on, even today.
I wanted to share a something about why today is so special for our family. It was on this day back in 2000, that Gavin was born. Mr. Gavin is seventeen years old today and we are so blessed to have him in our lives. He's come such a long way over the years and I couldn't be any prouder of the young man that's he's becoming... ☺ Happy Birthday Gavin. We love you very much..
Gavin shared something with us that came out of nowhere and caught us completely off guard. Gavin's always talking about something and honestly it gets to the point where we have to filter him out at times. The other day, Gavin was talking to me about the random things that he always does. I had started to tune the talking out and had just about done so successfully, when I heard a name that I hadn't heard in a really long time. I was instantly snapped back into the conversation and this is what Gavin told me. Continued on page 2 He explained that he had a really bad nightmare. In this nightmare, someone was slicing his (Gavin's) hands open with the a large knife. That was creepy enough but it's…
My day is finally winding down and aside from dinner and putting the kids to bed later on, my Daddy-Do list is finished. I was able to put a check mark in every single box today, except time on the treadmill. I just wasn't home enough today to do that. I'm hoping to check that off the list in the morning. The boys have done really good today and I'm super proud of them, especially considering how nonstop today has been. After the kids go down, I'll bring you all up to speed on how therapies went today and something worrisome, Gavin told us about. Stay tuned..
The boys make their return to therapy for the first time since early December. With the holidays, there were therapists on vacation and offices closed. It's been about a month since they've been to therapy. Gavin is returning to Speech and Emmett is returning to Occupational therapy. Both boys are super excited and look forward to returning to Akron Children's Hospital..
It's been a busy day already. I took the boys to school and afterwards went to get the water jugs filled. Unfortunately, they weren't open yet so I returned home and finished getting ready for a service guy that was coming out. I even had a business call as well. It's about noon and I finally have a little bit of time before my next thing I have to do, so I figured I'd try and write a few things and then move on with my day. So far so good. Elliott and Emmett did great this morning, as did Gavin. I have still been thinking that today is Monday but I've put an it's Tuesday wallpaper on my phone and tablet, as a reminder. ☺ All in all, it's…
The four day weekend is almost over and we have lived to tell the tail. :-) All joking aside, it seemed like a longer weekend than it actually was. The boys were the boys and that's not a bad thing. They were all challenging at times but I have great memories with each of them over the past four days. Challenging doesn't always mean bad. What challenging typically means for me is exhausting. This weekend was exhausting even though we didn't go anywhere. It was exhausting listening to Gavin and constantly trying to stay at least a few steps in front of him. It was exhausting trying to get the two youngest to eat what we bought at Aldi's. I would say that in most cases, we were unsuccessful in making Aldi's…
I wanted to share a snippet of good news. Yesterday I mentioned that Gavin was having bladder issues once again. He was frustrated by this and understandably so. My concern was that we were going to see this becoming a trend and that wouldn't be a good thing. Thankfully, today seems to be a better day for him. He hasn't said anything about having to constantly go to the bathroom. My hope is that yesterday was just a fluke and things will continue to remain stable in this particular area of his life. Gavin certainly has enough on his plate, and if we can keep even one thing from piling back on, that's a very positive thing.