The  Busy Moms – Special Needs Summit Registration is Here! After many, many months of hard work and love, I’m so happy to announce registration for the Busy Moms – Special Needs Summit is open! This has been a labor of love. I want all […]

Have you ever asked yourself, “Is there something “off” or different with my child?  Is he/she behaving as other kids do?”   As you might imagine, with five special needs children, I’ve kept a pretty good eye on my youngest daughter’s progress in social and sensory […]

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 […]

If you are like me, when your differently wired teen* develops an interest in the opposite sex, you have to develop a whole new set of “rules” to help your child navigate flirting and dating.  Social situations are hard enough when you don’t pick up […]

I’m one in a hundred (or rather three hundred twenty). Are you too? I have a little fear of heights (Acrophobia)–mixed with a good sized bit of Basophobia (fear of falling). More specifically, it’s the fear of falling to my death from a height. According […]

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 […]

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 […]

In honor of Autism Awareness Month, I thought I would write a little about our journey to getting Firstborn’s diagnosis. Looking back on things now, the warning signs were all there, but I didn’t see them. To use a metaphor, I didn’t know all the […]

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 […]