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 […]

5 must do things for emotional and social support of families with autism or other disabilities. How to combat the all-too-common afterthought situation and loneliness. What to do when you stop getting invites.

Today I’ve got the kids working on their summer assignments.  For my son Lawboy, this means hours practicing his violin and viola for the arts school he attends.  For my own homework, I’ve been working on creating videos.  I worked on this one a few […]

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 […]

I’m going to make this easy–Go see this movie. It’s fun and action-packed and gets back to what Marvel does best. What we knew going in: This movie was to take place “before” Infinity War.  Scott Lang was under house arrest after the events in […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s November 2015, and a few changes have been made to the DAS system.  As most people know, Disney World has been moving over to a system using Magic Bands.  At the time I wrote this in November 2013, there were still FastPass kiosks where […]

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 […]

Hello! With six children, four of whom are on the autism spectrum and my toddler receiving services for speech and sensory issues, I need to be an organized mom.  Admittedly, some areas of my life are better organized than others.  Today I want to address […]