We've had a somewhat of a lowkey day. Everyone slept in and I'm grateful for that because I struggled with restless leg until about 4 AM. There's absolutely nothing on the agenda for the rest of the day. I did get an Amazon delivery this afternoon and I'm really excited about it. It's a second mic set for the podcast. Emmett has been wanting to work together on a special pod but I needed the second mic setup before we could do that correctly. He's really excited and that's awesome because he's really struggling right now and aside from our Florida trip, he's not been looking forward to anything. It's so nice to see him excited about something. I'll let you know when we get this going.. ☺

The boys spent some time visiting their mom and grandparents today. While they were gone, I had intended to do nothing but work on the house. Unfortunately, my sleep has been so disrupted lately, I opted to take a nap instead. When I got up, I decided to hit the park and get some walking in. I popped in my Galaxy Buds and began listening to A Warning: by Anonymous and was able to get about 3.5 miles in before heading home to eat and get some house work done. I felt so good being able to walk again. It helps me to deal with my stress and get centered enough to carry on with the day, without losing my mind completely. The kids were home a little before 6pm…

I wanted to talk about some of my New Years Resolutions. Gone are the days where I would set these unattainable goals and then beat myself up when I inevitably failed. Instead, I want to focus on a few things that are important and will have a positive impact on our lives. My main goal for 2020 is to improve my selfcare. Since I became a single Dad again, all my time and energy has gone into the kids. This has significantly impacted my focus on selfcare and I'm paying the price for it. As part of this, I'm going to put significantly more effort into the following: I'm going to walk at least 3 miles after taking the kids to school. I want to walk at least 5 days…

When I look back on 2019, there's a great deal of pain and loss. Some of this loss was sort of expected, like the deaths of my grandparents. Some of this loss was completely unexpected, like my wife leaving again. Whether expected or not, these losses have made their mark on our lives. I have been struggling with these losses myself, I can't imagine what my kids are experiencing. The last few months have been particularly challenging as the kids and I are trying to adapt to the major changes in our lives. I'm adapting to being a single parent, raising my kids on my own and my kids are adapting to living in a single parent home. Trying to grieve without burdening my kids is not easy. Trying to…

I couldn't fall asleep until 5 AM last night. My brain was not able to shutoff. I've got so much to look forward to but so much to worry about as well. Last night, I happened to be hyper focused on this trip to Florida. The trip is going to be expensive but it's absolutely worth it. The kids desperately need to get away from all the shit in our lives right now. This will really be sort of a working vacation and will open up future opportunities. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to experience the lengths that DoubleTree has gone to, in order to be an Autism friendly, inclusive environment. I just heard back from Give Kids The World and have locked in our volunteer day. That…

I feel pretty good about today. We had some surprises but we handled them in stride. Everything that needed to be done was done. Gavin he got his blood work done and we all got our flushots. The flushots were sorta impromptu but it worked out. We were supposed to get them a couple of weeks ago but we all got sick. You can't get a vaccine when you're sick and so it was cancled. I called to reschedule this afternoon and learned that they were booked until the end of January. We were offered a different location where we could just walk in and get it taken care of. It was all the way on the other side of town but this is important and I wanted to get…