Category: Disney

Proud Momma

Proud Momma

I’m so very proud of my son.  He’s worked hard.  I’m pulling this from my Instagram and giving a little more detail to his story. My son’s university has a tradition in their library.  Each week they share white board art drawn by a variety […]

Magically Capable-My Disney Special Needs Travel Site is Live!

Magically Capable-My Disney Special Needs Travel Site is Live!

Dear friends, thank you so much for your patience as I have been working feverishly on building my new website, Magically Capable. I am still wanting to help special needs families here. My new website lets me focus on helping special needs families travel and […]

How Can I Best Help You?

How Can I Best Help You?

I just got back from an amazing blogging conference called Activate. It is run my Ruth Soukup’s and her amazing team at Elite Blog Academy/Living Well Spending Less. I got clarity on what I want to achieve here and how I want to move forward. […]

Movie Review–“Ant-Man and the Wasp” from our High Functioning Autism Perspective

Movie Review–“Ant-Man and the Wasp” from our High Functioning Autism Perspective

I’m going to make this easy–Go see this movie. It’s fun and action-packed and gets back to what Marvel does best. What we knew going in: This movie was to take place “before” Infinity War.  Scott Lang was under house arrest after the events in […]

Movie Review—“Avengers: Infinity War” from an High Functioning Autism Perspective

Movie Review—“Avengers: Infinity War” from an High Functioning Autism Perspective

We’ve been Marvel fans for a while. Last Saturday we took the family to see Avengers: Infinity War. Excited doesn’t begin to cover it.  My daughter texted the following when we told her. We really started loving the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with the first […]

Handmade Disney Themed T-shirts

Handmade Disney Themed T-shirts

Time for a Mega Crafting post.  I never did post this one on my old blog.  After my software for my professional vinyl cutter was woefully out-of-date and I would have to purchase new software for quite a lot, I decided to purchase a Silhouette […]

Mickey Mouse Tie-dye Shirts Tutorial

Mickey Mouse Tie-dye Shirts Tutorial

Background on the Mickey Mouse Tie-dye Shirts: I originally made the first Mickey Mouse tie-dye matching shirts and this post for my family back in 2011.  I did it because I had seen the idea on social media and thought it would be really fun […]

Welcome to 8 Busy Bees!

Welcome to 8 Busy Bees!

About the new WordPress site and a little about me I am a mom to six kids–four of whom have special needs and are on the Autism Spectrum.  The youngest has been diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder and Generalized Anxiety.  This blog is to share […]

UPDATED: Review of DAS at Walt Disney World

UPDATED: Review of DAS at Walt Disney World

It’s November 2015, and a few changes have been made to the DAS system.  As most people know, Disney World has been moving over to a system using Magic Bands.  At the time I wrote this in November 2013, there were still FastPass kiosks where […]

Letter to My Nieces and Nephews on Autism

Letter to My Nieces and Nephews on Autism

This summer we were getting ready for a family reunion.  It had been ten years since the entire family was all together at once.  It was three years since my kids had seen all of their cousins. The last time we had an unfortunate incident […]