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 […]

Background on the Mickey Mouse Tie-dye Shirts: I originally made the first Mickey Mouse tie-dye matching shirts and this post for my family back in 2011.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 […]

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 […]

This is an older post from my old blog with a few new additions.  I thought it would be a fun way to start things off here.  I’ll post the funny things my kids have said on another day. In no particular order, here they […]

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 […]

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 […]

So one of the many preparations we took for our family vacation and reunion for my parent’s 50th anniversary was to make more family shirts.  The older boys are HUGE Percy Jackson fans–and two of them have ADHD, so they like to joke they are […]

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 […]

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 […]