Read more about the article I love seeing them just be kids
The boys and I took a silly selfie the other day. It's not often that I can convince everyone to do this, because inevitably one of them isn't in the mood to cooperate... I really love these silly pictures with my kids because sometimes they seem too grown-up already. Pictures like this show them being kids...
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I love seeing them just be kids

The boys and I took a silly selfie the other day. It's not often that I can convince everyone to do this because inevitably one of them isn't in the mood to cooperate... I really love these silly pictures with my kids because sometimes they seem too grown-up already. Pictures like this show them being kids...The boys and I took a silly selfie the other day. It's not often that I can convince everyone to do this because inevitably one of them isn't in the mood to cooperate... I really love these silly pictures with my kids because sometimes they seem too grown-up already. Pictures like this show them being kids... :-)

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May 22, 2017
Read more about the article I’m so grateful to @Healthline :-)
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I’m so grateful to @Healthline :-)

I want to take a second and give my most humble thank you to healthline.com. I have been chosen as one of their Best Autism Blogs of 2017. As usual, I'm in amazing company and you can check out the complete list over at Healthline by clicking here. Thank you again for this great honor and I hope that I can continue to live up to it. :-)   Healthline  

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April 17, 2017
Read more about the article I’m sick for a few days and it all goes to hell
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I’m sick for a few days and it all goes to hell

First things first. The boys had a great day at school and received a big surprise when they got home, in the form of my Dad taking  all three of them to dinner. ☺ I mentioned in the title about things going to hell. That's in reference to this blog. While I was sick, I didn't access the site for almost three days. When I tried getting back on track today, it's honestly like everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. There were all kinds of issues that began popping up and I spent most of the day trying to figure it out. It wasn't a security type issue but rather code corruption somewhere and I couldn't track it down. Long story short, it's all fixed and ended up being…

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March 21, 2017
Read more about the article It’s the not knowing that kills me as a parent
Gavin / My thoughts

It’s the not knowing that kills me as a parent

It's becoming clear that Gavin's struggling more and more. Unfortunately, there's no way to know if this is another leg of his journey with Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, the result of changes to his medications or just par for the course. His level of functionality is decreasing and doing so in weird areas. Things like self-awareness are slipping. There's never been a great deal of that to begin with, so this change is noticeable. What do I mean by self-awareness? Gavin had an ice cream sandwich this afternoon. About three hours later, I took the boys to the park to hunt Pokémon for short while before picking up their pizza for school tomorrow. I wasn't paying attention to Gavin's face, like I usually do before we leave and I was caught…

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March 20, 2017
Read more about the article 1 BIG reason I’m worried about Gavin
Gavin / My thoughts

1 BIG reason I’m worried about Gavin

This is an important update on Gavin's current overall status and one that's a bit concerning, although not entirely unexpected. Gavin's officially off of Lithium for the first time in over a decade. We were a bit caught off guard at the timing because we were supposed to stop this coming Thursday but when his new box of meds was delivered this weekend, it was devoid of Lithium. By the time we would be able to address this, it would be close to the original cutoff date anyway. Frankly, it doesn't matter, aside from finding out why they pulled it in the first place because we never told them to. Anyway, Gavin's off of Lithium for the first time in over ten years, and we're bracing for a major unknown.…

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March 19, 2017