We are often asked about how our other children handle day to day life with Dayna's Autism.  Dayna is our oldest at 16 (almost 17), her sister Kiley is 14 and her brother Sean is 7.  Neither Kiley or Sean personally have any effects of Autism, but they do deal with the challenges nonetheless.  Here…

It's 2:44am….yep, Dayna has found a way to help me write my blog again.  Unfortunately, it’s because once again she is up in the middle of the night.  Now to be fair, her overall sleep is much better than it used to be.  As you know from the past, 11 p.m.-5 a.m. was considered a…

Well, its my first update since Dayna came back from Murdoch, an inpatient behavioral medical facility here in North Carolina. She spent 6 weeks there to help her deal with the fact that she would not sleep at night and would fight us going to school. It was a hard 6 weeks for her and…

I haven’t posted much, either on the blog or on social media about Dayna since we announced she would be going to an inpatient program at a developmental center here in North Carolina.  We brought Dayna there on December 5th, she is still there and will stay there until January 19th.  She is going through…

If you were born after 1997, you probably don't know what I mean by that.  Google "Fred the Baker" for explanation.  Fred's alarm would go off in the middle of the night and he would begrudgingly get out of bed to open his Duncan Donuts store.  I'm starting to understand Fred, but without being surrounded…

I found this article online.  Given our challenges with Dayna it struck a cord with me. And while the children described here are extremely severe, there are also a lot of striking similarities to Dayna's behaviors when she gets upset, especially when it comes to going to school.  I really feel for the parents here....the lack…