Category: Special Needs Life (all blog posts)

Food Choices and Accountability | Weight Check #3

Food Choices and Accountability | Weight Check #3

It’s Friday and time for weight check #3. As I type this I know the food I should be eating is a salad for lunch. I want to eat chips instead. For me eating better is often a meal by meal battle to eat what […]

Journey With Me to Fitness: Weight Check Week 1

Journey With Me to Fitness: Weight Check Week 1

Moms of special needs families need self love and care too. Our weight can cause us issues. Journey with me in life lessons as we try to get healthier and smarter.

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. […]

Vacation

Vacation

I’ll get back to my regular posting next week, but for now I’m enjoying time with my family on vacation. We went to Mount Vernon among other places and it’s been fun. I hope you are squeezing every last moment out of summer!

Cleveland Rocks!

Cleveland Rocks!

Today I’ve got the kids working on their summer assignments.  For my son Lawboy, this means hours practicing his violin and viola for the arts school he attends.  For my own homework, I’ve been working on creating videos.  I worked on this one a few […]

How to Escape a Metaphorical Riptide

How to Escape a Metaphorical Riptide

Last week I woke up with a start with all of the things I had to do running through my brain.  I was feeling overwhelmed and wrote about how I cope with all the stress in the midst of overwhelm.  Lately it feels like I’ve […]

When You’re Having One Of Those Days (or weeks, or months,etc)

When You’re Having One Of Those Days (or weeks, or months,etc)

They say tragedy plus time equals humor. They also say that laughter is the best medicine. I’ve also heard more than one motivational speaker suggest each of us look for humor in a situation. We need the humor-especially when we’re having one of those days. […]

6 Ways to Prepare You and Your Special Needs Child for Camp

6 Ways to Prepare You and Your Special Needs Child for Camp

It’s summertime and if you haven’t already enrolled your child in a camp, there is still time to do so.  If you don’t do it this year, you can start planning for the next.  This post is to help you navigate the extra challenges of […]

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 […]

Concussions Are Not Fun

Concussions Are Not Fun

Not to state the obvious, but it’s true. I’m inserting this post more than a week after my car accident to explain my lack of content. Short version is the guy behind me on the interstate slammed into my car when he was going too […]