This was supposed to be the Memorial Day post about summer.  Instead it’s going up today, close to Independence Day.  If you’re wondering why, read HERE. *************** Happy Memorial (Independence) Day! As someone with lots of military service in my family, it’s a particularly poignant holiday […]

I spent the last week volunteering at Cub Scout Day Camp.  Acroboy is in his last year of Cub Scouts as a Webelo. The crafts weren’t too hard for the most part, but when you are trying to teach several groups of boys of varying […]

When I was a little girl, I remember a Sunday lesson on death.  The teacher had a glove.  She asked us if it could move on its own.  We answered no.  She put the glove on and demonstrated how moving her fingers inside the glove […]

I had intended to post on Memorial Day about part of our summertime game plan. Instead I found my family packing up to race across country–in hopes of saying goodbye to our beloved Grandmother. She was a powerhouse of faith, service and spirituality.  We will […]

Background on the Mickey Mouse Tie-dye Shirts: I originally made the first Mickey Mouse tie-dye matching shirts and this post for my family back in 2011.  I did it because I had seen the idea on social media and thought it would be really fun […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]