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Proud Orchestra Mama With Heavy Heart For Other Mothers
It’s the end of the year and that means concerts, festivals, evaluations and the like. Lawboy just finished all of assessments. He got Superior (I) ratings for both the County and State level Solo and Small Ensemble festivals. His orchestra just came away with a […]
Throwback Thursday–Prior Post 5/1/17–Mousescrappers Design Challenge #32 BlogTrain
Today I’m doing a more recent crafting “Throwback Thursday” because I plan to participate in Mousescrappers Design Challenge #33 as well. ************************* Mousescrappers Design Challenge #32 BlogTrain–05/01/17 I participated in my first ever Design Challenge at MouseScrappers.com. This is what I made! The designs are […]
Throwback Thursday Prior Post-10/09/09 Autism & Anxiety
Since I’m bringing my blogs into one place, I’ve decided once a week to create a “Throwback Thursday” post where I will be bringing over older posts from my blogs. For me, this will create a more cohesive stream of content and a view of […]
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 […]
Creativity and Crafting–My Outlet
I’ve been a long-time crafter of some sort. I think it stems from the fact I come from a very creative family. My father sings, plays multiple instruments and is a good photographer. My mother sews, draws and oil paints, and used to play the […]
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 […]
A Longer Introduction to Us
Our Mostly Autism Family I thought I should post a little longer introduction to us and our special needs / Autism family. It’s a bit too long for the “about” section, so I’ll tag it here. I have six children–four boys, two girls. All four […]
Things You Should Never Have to Say to Your Children, (But Have Actually Said to Them).
This is an older post from my old blog with a few new additions. I thought it would be a fun way to start things off here. I’ll post the funny things my kids have said on another day. In no particular order, here they […]
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
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 […]