Author Archives: carl

now for a bit of levity

this blog is about my family, and the issues that come from being a stay at home father of 5 kids, 3 of who are blessed with special needs of one kind or another. Briefly, I will talk about me. I am going to be 40 soon.  Not tomorrow, but soon.  Last year a week after my birthday I had a series of mini strokes or TIA’s as they are called.  My wife made me promise that I would live to see 40.  A couple of times in the last year I wasn’t sure that I would make it.  But that date is coming. I have Systemic Lupus. I have Fibromyalgia.  I have Hypothyroidism.  I am not healthy. Well, maybe I should qualify that.  I am as healthy as I can be given the circumstances. Why do I take the time to write this post?  Simple.  If I don’t take

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Calgon take me away… alas it is an exercise in futility

It has been a day already. David was up at 7.  he went to bed at 11 last night, but was up and down all night long. Since then he has been as busy as Roger Rabbit.  Zip from here to there.  When he is like he was last night, it is hard to sleep. David thinks that everyone is deaf when they are sleeping so he makes a lot of noise in the hopes of waking them.  Then you hear snippets of “David, stop that, David, David, David, David…”  alas it is an exercise in futility. So we went on an outing. He had to do a blood draw, and then we stopped at the grocery store. It seems like our whole day has been: Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Mom. Mom. Mom. Hey Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad… Tweet #fighting4answrs

and so ends the great debate

Our youngest son David loves to argue.  Everything for him is something that can be debated. Tell him that he needs to clean up his kleenex, and he will tell you why he can’t do it, and he might use something you said yesterday to him as an excuse.  Tell him he needs to eat his supper before he has a snack, and he will tell you that he ate his supper and then will tell you what he ate for lunch.  When you ask him who made this supper, he would say, so and so made it for me at lunchtime.  Well, since it is 6:30 in the evening, you need to eat a regular meal before you have a snack. For discipline, one of the few things that works is to have him cover his head.  Normally we don’t keep him under there for more than about 10

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