In our school district, we have magnet programs.  Firstborn goes to a great school geared towards the arts.  He is getting top notch instruction in instrumental playing.  Whirlwind hates to practice, yet he has decided to apply to this school because he likes what his […]

Okay.  So the doctor visit was mostly helpful.  Here’s what I was told.  The rash (because of it’s stages), looks like chicken pox–except it’s not anywhere on her trunk.  It could be hand, foot and mouth–except it’s not anywhere in her mouth.  We are left […]

My baby has come down with step throat.  It’s the first time she’s had it.  She had an ear infection once before and had amoxicillin for it.  She’s had three doses of the antibiotic for the strep throat.  We were sitting in church today and […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

So I was thinking about Baby Girl’s milk allergy and how it affects the skin on her legs (they always feel rough).  Acroboy has similar feeling skin on his legs.  I decided to take his older brother and him into the allergist to see if […]

Baby Girl had her second GI scope today.  She was a lot grumpier this time around and the grumpiness lasted longer than it did before.  The doctor showed me the pictures and things look good, but she’ll send the biopsies off for evaluation so we […]

Remember last week when I posted that Whirlwind was complaining about going on the scout camp out?  And that I mentioned it was an important camp out for both boys? Whirlwind sabotaged his brother.  I just don’t know if it was intentional or not. One […]

My boys belong to a church-sponsored Boy Scouts of America troop.  It has been a good experience for them.  We have an upcoming camp out, and once again Whirlwind is declaring loudly he doesn’t want to go.  He does this just about every scout camp […]