In honor of Autism Awareness Month, I thought I would write a little about our journey to getting Firstborn’s diagnosis. Looking back on things now, the warning signs were all there, but I didn’t see them. To use a metaphor, I didn’t know all the […]

In our school district, we have magnet programs.  Firstborn goes to a great school geared towards the arts.  He is getting top notch instruction in instrumental playing.  Whirlwind hates to practice, yet he has decided to apply to this school because he likes what his […]

Okay.  So the doctor visit was mostly helpful.  Here’s what I was told.  The rash (because of it’s stages), looks like chicken pox–except it’s not anywhere on her trunk.  It could be hand, foot and mouth–except it’s not anywhere in her mouth.  We are left […]

My baby has come down with step throat.  It’s the first time she’s had it.  She had an ear infection once before and had amoxicillin for it.  She’s had three doses of the antibiotic for the strep throat.  We were sitting in church today and […]

I’m going to post my thoughts on the new DAS system at Walt Disney World in a separate post.  I wanted this post to focus on more general tips to pass on. 1)  Even though the 6 ½ year old may be physically capable of […]

This last spring my sister challenged me to run a half marathon with her in the fall.  It was 19 weeks away at the time, and I began a couch to half marathon program that left little wiggle room.  I started training and things went […]

Torn That’s how I feel.  Torn. Baby Girl was evaluated in speech, gross motor and fine motor skills and in sensory/tactile sensitivities.  She qualifies for services. She had her first evaluation with the case manager a couple of weeks ago.  We schedule another evaluation and […]

So I was thinking about Baby Girl’s milk allergy and how it affects the skin on her legs (they always feel rough).  Acroboy has similar feeling skin on his legs.  I decided to take his older brother and him into the allergist to see if […]

      You may have heard about the mom of an ASD boy, Max, who about a month ago received an anonymous and extremely hateful letter. I was pretty shocked when I first read about it.  I was also upset, a bit angry and […]

Back in July I wrote how I took BabyGirl into our favorite Autism medical center for her sibling study evaluation.  She excels at gross motor skills (we knew she did), but she is a bit more behind in expressive speech.  It’s been over a month, […]