Settling in, 4 years later

Hello, Friends! Well, did anybody else take a 4 year break from blogging to have a meltdown, lose their mom to cancer, have another baby, actually get married, and study Liam like you're getting paid to?(no one ever pays you)?? No? Just me? Great. 🎉 Any-who, we have been down the special education rabbit hole for the past few years. And let me tell you we are older and wiser because of it! ADHD/DMDD fam & friends, this life is NO JOKE! You just ride along this roller coaster between thinking, "it'll all be ok" *up up up* and *BAM! Straight down* Like "AAAHHHH! WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!!!". I get it. So Liam's 10 now, and we have gone from public schools, to charter school (for the smaller class size), and now are at a transitional school for kids with "emotional impairments" (E.I. in special ed lingo). He's in a self contained classroom with 5 other kids and 2 special education teachers. It has rewards. It has consequences. It's structured and it works. Over the years we've struggled with some mental health hardships, partial hospitalization(That was a doozy $$$), and kept up with the good, bad, and othewise. We have come quite a long way from the terrible twos where we started but we're "gettin there" So let's talk about the past, present, and future of this crazy lifestyle. While occasionally excusing me to chase down one of my many children in an attempt to keep them alive 🤞 Cheers!🍷