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 […]

I saw my primary care doctor recently for an infection I had.  I have a tendency to get this type of infection. She looked at my lab work and we talked for a bit.  I’ve previously been anemic (usually during a pregnancy), I’ve had thinning […]

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 […]

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 […]

Torn That’s how I feel.  Torn. Baby Girl was evaluated in speech, gross motor and fine motor skills and in sensory/tactile sensitivities.  She qualifies for services. She had her first evaluation with the case manager a couple of weeks ago.  We schedule another evaluation and […]

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 […]

Did you ever watch GI Joe cartoons as a kid?  I’m a child of the 80’s and I loved to watch GI Joe every afternoon.  Every cartoon would end with some type of lesson or moral message and the phrase, “And knowing is half the […]

We had a 504 meeting for Acroboy.  Well, I thought it was going to be a 504 meeting for Acroboy. Acroboy’s teacher has been giving him some accommodations to help him in class.  He gets extra reminders, visual cues, he sits close to her on […]

This last week I took Acroboy into our favorite medical center to have an evaluation with a developmental pediatrician. She talked to me, went over his history, diagnosis (PDD-NOS and ADHD), then tested his skills in a few areas. Acroboy read a story to her […]