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 on body language or subtle inflections of voice and tone [...]
Here is my most recent post. Im still learning how to forward to another blog, so click HERE for the new URL and full post.https://8busybees.com/2018/04/30/we-came-we-saw-we-conquered-we-did-it-scared/ I'm one in a hundred (or rather three hundred twenty). Are you too?I have a little fear of heights (Acrophobia)--mixed with a good sized bit of Basophobia (fear of falling). [...]
Every year I struggle with how to address this month, and in particular April 2, Autism Awareness Day. I am so grateful that so many more people are aware of Autism. In days past, whenever one of my boys would flip into meltdown mode or start stimming at an "inappropriate" time or place I would [...]
One of the things we like to do is take time with each child to do something special. This last weekend DH (DearHusband) and I had to go to a formal work event. For Friday Family Time (yes, we kind of consider it a proper noun), we sat down as a whole family to watch [...]
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 wanted it to be an item I could keep in [...]
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 for us. I can't begin to express the depth of [...]
Today's Throwback Thursday is a craft from 2011 and updated in 2013. I made matching shirts for our family. Originally I did it because I had seen the idea on social media and thought it would be really fun for us. Since then I have learned that dressing identically helps a lot in crowded locations. [...]
