Tag: Travel

Busy Moms – Special Needs Summit Registration Now Open!!!

Busy Moms – Special Needs Summit Registration Now Open!!!

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 […]

Being Kind to Yourself During and After a Crazy, Busy Summer

Being Kind to Yourself During and After a Crazy, Busy Summer

Did summer go by as quickly for you as it did for me? Are you happy with what you did and didn’t do? We started off with a bang in June with a large family reunion in Southern Utah near Zion National Park. It continued […]

Vacation

Vacation

I’ll get back to my regular posting next week, but for now I’m enjoying time with my family on vacation. We went to Mount Vernon among other places and it’s been fun. I hope you are squeezing every last moment out of summer!

Cleveland Rocks!

Cleveland Rocks!

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 […]

6 Ways to Prepare You and Your Special Needs Child for Camp

6 Ways to Prepare You and Your Special Needs Child for Camp

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 […]

Windy City Here We Come…

Windy City Here We Come…

This last week I accompanied Lawboy as a chaperone on his school’s orchestra/band trip to Chicago. I’ve been to Chicago a few times before, and the city never fails to make me happy. I love, LOVE, the variety and quality of food there. I love […]

UPDATED: Review of DAS at Walt Disney World

UPDATED: Review of DAS at Walt Disney World

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 […]

Letter to My Nieces and Nephews on Autism

Letter to My Nieces and Nephews on Autism

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 […]

Camp Half Blood Here We Come (Well, the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam at Least)

Camp Half Blood Here We Come (Well, the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam at Least)

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 […]

20+ Things I’ve Learned from Our Trip to Disney (Including Tips for Families with Toddlers and Special Needs Kids)

20+ Things I’ve Learned from Our Trip to Disney (Including Tips for Families with Toddlers and Special Needs Kids)

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 […]