This post used to be titled, “Why I Won’t Be Taking My Autism Spectrum Children Back to Universal Islands of Adventure” I generally try to be pretty positive, and I realized my post and title were not at all positive.  So I’m rewriting this […]

I guess “verdict” isn’t quite the right word, but I couldn’t think of anything catchier. So we got the test results back.  Baby Girl is allergic to milk. I knew my other children were senstive to milk–it gave them all diahrhea until they were about […]

Seven years ago my only exposure to Autism was meeting Kim Peek, the gentleman who inspired the movie, “Rain Man”. Or so I thought. Little did I know that my sweet little eight-year-old boy who had a difficult time interacting with more than one child […]

Baby Girl had her nine month well visit. Overall the pediatrician is happy with the progress she has been making. She seems to have a rash/ dry skin/ eczema. We are not entirely clear on what is causing it. I am going to go back […]

We’ve started “food therapy” for Acroboy. Basically I make the nearly two hour drive every week to meet with the ocupational therapist who works with food. We do a food practice to help Acroboy get over his food aversions. What aversions you might say? Gagging […]

This pregnancy has been rough.  I’ve been so incredibly sick. But I at the same time I am so grateful to be in this position. I really had given up the idea that we would have any more kids. I didn’t think it was in […]

Last post I talked a bit about the challenges I’ve faced taking my children (four of whom are Autism Spectrum disorder) on vacation to an amusement park–specifically I talked about Disney.  In this post I will break down things we did that drastically changed our […]

  Here is something you don’t know.  I am a Disneyphile of the highest degree.   I grew up going to Disneyland.  I’ve been to Disney a number of times over the years and though I know the bottom line is corporate is out to get […]

What a crazy time for us!  End of the year concerts, recitals, award ceremonies and the like.  Some of the kids have year-end tests/benchmarks as well.  We’ve signed up for a number of activities this summer–I don’t want the kids to lose the structure and […]