Category: Practical Tips

Summer Plans & My Secret Weapon

Summer Plans & My Secret Weapon

This was supposed to be the Memorial Day post about summer.  Instead it’s going up today, close to Independence Day.  If you’re wondering why, read HERE. *************** Happy Memorial (Independence) Day! As someone with lots of military service in my family, it’s a particularly poignant holiday […]

Bringing It All Into One Place

Bringing It All Into One Place

In the past, I’ve run as many as five blogs, and it’s been a bit exhausting separating different parts of myself.   On this blog I’ll be bringing in pieces from my blogs into one place.  My main autism blog was MomtoMyGroupofMunchkins.blogspot.com. I’ll be chronicling […]

My Office

My Office

I had every intention of starting off the year posting regularly. Then life hit its full stride and I got buried, literally, under mounds of paperwork.  I’m still digging out. Does this happen to anyone else? I’m pretty sure it does. It doesn’t help that […]

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 […]

Scout Mom and Our Scouting Month

Scout Mom and Our Scouting Month

I plan on posting soon about the reasons I think Scouting is a great thing for boys–especially those on the autism spectrum.  For right now I will say this has been the scouting month. We had our Pinewood Derby We had our District dinner, which […]

We Have An Eagle Scout!!!

We Have An Eagle Scout!!!

Firstborn passed his Eagle Board of Review tonight!  I am so excited.  This has been such a long road for us.  It was actually his first (and very astute) Cub Scout Den Leader who noticed what a hard time Firstborn had in socializing with the […]

Autism Hat Tutorial

Autism Hat Tutorial

  For a while now I’ve been contemplating making something that would possibly make my life a little easier.  I’ve had enough meltdowns on outings with my ASD kids to know I wanted to do something to indicate we are an Autism family.  I also […]

How Do You Guide Your Child Who Sabotaged His Brother’s Scout Efforts?

How Do You Guide Your Child Who Sabotaged His Brother’s Scout Efforts?

Remember last week when I posted that Whirlwind was complaining about going on the scout camp out?  And that I mentioned it was an important camp out for both boys? Whirlwind sabotaged his brother.  I just don’t know if it was intentional or not. One […]

Trying to Motivate my ADHD, Aspergers, & Sometimes ODD Teenage Boy

Trying to Motivate my ADHD, Aspergers, & Sometimes ODD Teenage Boy

My boys belong to a church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America troop.  It has been a good experience for them.  We have an upcoming camp out, and once again Whirlwind is declaring loudly he doesn’t want to go.  He does this just about every scout camp […]

The Best App to Make a Busy Mom’s Life Easier

The Best App to Make a Busy Mom’s Life Easier

  (Updated Nov. 2014). First of all, let me start off by saying I have not received any solicitation or compensation to write this post.  I honestly just want to share the number one app that has made my life easier.  If I can help […]