Hands down, having my boys join the Boy Scouts of America has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.  It has literally been life-saving for my special needs kids. What will my child be able to do?  What are his/her limitations? How do […]

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 […]

Photo credit: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematics-of-juggling-20170524/ I didn’t realize how dependent I am on my planner until I was without the first two+ weeks of the year. The one I ordered finally came yesterday after a shipping snafu. I had a small paper January calendar where I could […]

Firstborn graduated last year.  He was accepted into a four of the five schools he applied to–all in different states. He really wanted to go to one of two schools in particular and he made it his goal to get in.  Once he was accepted […]

Recently we had a spaghetti dinner fundraiser for our boy scout troop.  It included a cake auction and the boys were asked to donate a cake they had made.  Some of the boys made desserts, but clearly some of the parents helped out as well. […]

This post does not reflect the usual interaction our special needs youth normally have with Scouting.  I share this as an example of how we still have work to do to in communities at large so individuals with Autism can be understood and helped to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Firstborn passed his Eagle Board of Review tonight!  I am so excited.  This has been such a long road for us.  It was actually his first (and very astute) Cub Scout Den Leader who noticed what a hard time Firstborn had in socializing with the […]

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 […]