Have you ever heard a piece of music that so completely speaks to you? Okay, this may sound strange, but I was in the car the other day and listening to mp3’s.  (That by itself is not really strange).  I have a love of big […]

There is just no other way to say it. Parenting (in general) can be hard enough.  Parenting special needs children can present a whole new slew of challenges.  You have to be creative in a million different ways, develop and use more patience than you […]

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 […]

    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 […]

  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 […]

Over the last few years we’ve spent many, many hours at our favorite Autism medical center. We’ve had evaluations, therapy sessions, meetings with licensed clinical social workers and physicians of all sorts.  In the last year we began to participate in a study for siblings […]

  This post used to be titled, “Why I Won’t Be Taking My Autism Spectrum Children Back to Universal Islands of Adventure” I generally try to be pretty positive, and I realized my post and title were not at all positive.  So I’m rewriting this […]

Much as was hoping to avoid anxiety it’s here. I tried to prepare for and anticipate any triggers.  I brought earplugs and an eye mask to the hospital so I could drown out extra noise.  The earplugs were just enough so I couldn’t hear the […]

I feel guilty. I really do. And yet i feel justified. I took Acroboy to music time and sat back and watched him act at his worst. I watched him be hyperactive, get in other people’s spaces, and not pay attention, and I did nothing. […]

  Trying to find the perfect Disney packing list can be challenging Before we left, I scoured the web for ideas for our packing list. The Ultimate Packing List is really very good, as is this one, but I’ve made a few changes to it […]