Category: Travel

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

35+ Creative Ways to Celebrate Bastille Day

35+ Creative Ways to Celebrate Bastille Day

It’s July 14, and not only is it Bastille Day in France (technically la Fête nationale or le 14 Juilet), but France is playing in the World Cup finals tomorrow. In honor of these two momentous events, I’ve put together a roundup of creative ways […]

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 […]

Camp Half Blood Here We Come (Well, the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam at Least)

Camp Half Blood Here We Come (Well, the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam at Least)

So one of the many preparations we took for our family vacation and reunion for my parent’s 50th anniversary was to make more family shirts.  The older boys are HUGE Percy Jackson fans–and two of them have ADHD, so they like to joke they are […]

20+ Things I’ve Learned from Our Trip to Disney (Including Tips for Families with Toddlers and Special Needs Kids)

20+ Things I’ve Learned from Our Trip to Disney (Including Tips for Families with Toddlers and Special Needs Kids)

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 […]