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June 29, 2012

The Lost and Tired family is no stranger to bad news. Having said that, we are far from the only family to have to cope with hearing bad news. In our case, the bad news usually centers around Gavin and his health issues.

We had a big screen this week that turned out, thankfully, to not be as bad as I had feared.

However, the impact of thinking the worst, is not something that just disappeared when I spoke with the doctor this afternoon. For that last 36 hours, both my wife and I have been riding an adrenaline rush, even after we learned the good news.

It got me thinking. I wonder how other people cope with getting disheartening news about their child‘s health?

Personally, I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs. However, when I get really stressed out, as I was this week, my diet goes out the window. I just don’t care anymore and I lose all will power and want to eat myself into oblivion.

It’s not a healthy way of dealing with life but it’s what I tend to do.

Sometimes, I’ll put more time and energy into working out instead. However, that decision doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should.

The same thing or similar happened with the diagnosis of #Autism with each of my boys. I’m not proud of handling things like that but I suppose that it could be worse. Right? Right….

How do you folks handle things like hearing bad news about your child‘s health? How do you handle stress in general?

**Thanks for reading**

-Lost and Tired

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Jun 10 2012

Lost and Tired: 1,000,000 served

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June 10, 2012

This afternoon, I’m so excited to say that I have seen 1,000,000 visitors to this blog, in roughly 1.5 years. For many sites, they see that number in a single day. However, for me, this is a huge milestone.

It’s not about the popularity of Lost and Tired. It’s about feeling that I have made a connection (and hopefully, a positive impact on) with so many people.

I went from feeling completely isolated and alone, to feeling like we are now one huge family. I’m so grateful to all of you for helping me get here. For someone with absolutely no writing experience, it’s truly amazing to look back and see how far I have come.

I’m have a few giveaways to celebrate this milestone coming up. I’m working out a few details and I’ll let you know more, when I do.

That you all soon much for all your support, love and acceptance. I really feel like we are just a big’ol family and I care so much about each and every one of you.

Please have a peaceful week and know that you are always welcome here and I love hearing from all of you.

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May 13 2012

So much for a peaceful nights sleep

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May 13, 2012

It’s like 4am and we just woke up to a huge fight outside. They are trying to kill each other. We called the police like 20 minutes ago and they still haven’t arrived.. I don‘t think these people live here. There are cars involved and we keep hearing screaming and people being slammed into the cars and not by the police.

At least Gavin slept through it and the other boys aren’t home.

Have I mentioned how much I don‘t like our neighborhood?

On a side note:

Happy Mother’s Day. I figured I’m up, I might as well pass that along.

**Thanks for reading**

-Lost and Tired

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Apr 30 2012

Woke up by gunshots

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April 30, 2012

Lizze and I both woke up to the sound of gunshots. I’m not sure what time it is but it’s well after 1am.

I’m not sure how close they were but they were really loud. It’s kind hard to go back to sleep after hearing something like that. At least the boys slept through it. I don‘t want to have to explain what that noise was.

Gonna try to get back to sleep. I hope no one was hurt…..

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-Lost and Tired

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Feb 26 2012

Laughter

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February 26, 2012

There are quite a few things I really enjoy in life. However, there are few I enjoy more than hearing my kids laugh.

I don’t mean the forced laugh that can sometimes be a bit creepy. I mean the truly genuine laugh that shows me that they are happy. So often it’s hard to know whether or not they are happy.

Just as an example. I gave Emmett a kiss on his forehead and before he could wipe it off, I said sprinkles.

Sprinkles is a magic word because when you kiss someone and say sprinkles, they can’t wipe the kiss off. Emmett gets the biggest kick out of this. This is one of the times he will laugh in such a way that it quite literally erases the stress in my life and helps me pick up and keep moving forward.

When Emmett was younger and more nonverbal, he would talk in tones. It was almost like what you would hear from a whale. It was like music and it was beautiful. I know that might sound weird but hey, if that makes me weird than so be it.

Since Emmett has developed some language and speech, he no longer makes those noises. Don’t get me wrong, I so grateful that he can talk, even in a limited capacity, but I miss the music. His laughter though, is just as amazing to me.

Sometimes we have to stop and celebrate the truly beautiful aspects of life, no matter how small they may seem.

I love many things about my kids but I truly enjoy hearing them laugh.

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-Lost and Tired

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Feb 09 2012

Problems at school

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February 9, 2012

Yesterday, for the first time in quite a while, Gavin had major problems at school.

We haven’t been able to get much from him without him melting down. What we know is that he was escorted to the principles office at least twice. This only happens when he completely loses control. In other words, things have to be pretty bad for him to go to the office.

From what we know, Gavin wasn’t listening to the directions during an assignment and that led to him not knowing what he was supposed to be doing.

That of course, led to at least 2 meltdowns.

The concern I have is that I think this may have more to do with him not being able to hear what the teacher was saying and less about him not paying attention.

The problem is that his teacher told him that if he had been paying attention, he would know what he was supposed posed to be doing.

At this point Gavin is saying that wasn’t paying attention and that’s why he got in trouble.

The reality is that if his teacher had said he was bouncing a ball on his head and that’s why he didn’t know what he was supposed to be doing, he would believe them.

Gavin is very easily influenced by authority figures.

I will not tolerate anyone making assumptions about any of my kids and I will be speaking with the teachers very soon to get their side of the story.

Lizze and I have been concerned about Gavin’s hearing for awhile now. The last me we went into to have him checked, they found another problem that took priority over the hearing test.

A hearing test will take place very soon.

We need to know how to help him, whether it’s simply paying more attention at school or getting him help with his hearing. I’ve been saying that something is wrong for quite some time now. We just can’t seem to figure out what that something is.

**Thanks for reading**

-Lost and Tired

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Jan 23 2012

You know what they say about people who assume

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January 23, 2012