Helping Moms Raise Kids With Special Needs
This is going to be a great summer! We’re vacationing earlier than usual this year, due it being an incredibly stressful year, with LOTS of changes on the horizon for the kids. And, we will be driving. In light of that, we have to determine must have tech for travel with kids! This year is unique in that we are going to let the kids
Several years ago, we decided to check out what there was to do in Hershey®, PA on Halloween. Pumpkin Glow, character breakfast AND Hersheypark in the Dark SM? We were so thrilled…the kids were besides themselves. We packed up the car and headed out…only to hear once we checked in that a major blizzard was headed our way. Long story short, ALL the activities they had
Traveling with your autistic child can be a burden but to us, it’s not. Before her diagnosis, we treated Zoe like she’s just going to have to deal with it. In retrospect, that was probably not the best option. But we managed, and are actually taking two vacations this year! Will it be troublesome? Maybe, but this year I have some sage advice from Marguerite Elisofon, who
I was compensated for this post by SocialMoms on behalf of Alamo; all opinions are my own. I’ll admit it, we are theme park people! With 2 kids with learning disabilities who need extensive stimulation, what’s better? When it’s time to get away for the summer, we go where kid activities are at a maximum. Here are our 5 favorite summer getaways: Universal Studios, Orlando: I LOVE this
This weekend, I attended the iRetreat Conference put on by the lovely ladies of Double Duty Divas. This year, it was family friendly and they hosted it at Hershey Lodge. I love this hotel myself. You might be thinking, no WAY can I bring dairy-free, gluten-free my kid to Hershey. This is where you are wrong! We were pleasantly surprised. Here is how we managed
This year, we went on vacation to Florida as usual. The main difference with this summer was that our kids’ dietary restrictions and supplements were stricter than ever and more challenging than before. So, we went ahead, did only 2 days in the Hard Rock Hotel, and did everything we could possibly do to maintain and manage control of their dietary and supplemental requirements. This
So if you’re going to Orlando annually, as we do, you need to mix it up. A few years back, we decided to do brief stays at a Disney or Universal resort (like 2 nights), followed by a week at a time share. That way, we have a kitchen for most of the trip, and pretty awesome selection of gluten-free options for our hotel stay,
We took “off” from activities on Father’s Day but we did have a GREAT character breakfast at the Ohana. Chris is sure we sat next to the actor who played Peter Brady, which is funny because all I could think of at the Polynesian was the Brady Bunch Hawaiian Vacation episode. Big pans of food came and the kids ate it all! Amelia has a
So Sunday morning we were sad we had to leave the Polynesian Resort at WDW. I didn’t, though, mention half of what we did! Here’s the low down: On Saturday, we spent time in the pool. We didn’t realize that temps were over 100 at one point, which means 3 sunburnt grown ups. Zoe LOVES swimming but all of a sudden she was out of
As I mentioned yesterday, Zoe had an enormous meltdown while dining out in costume on Friday and when she was trick-or-treating, she had trouble keeping her clothes on in 50-felt-like-40 weather. Still ahead of us lies Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa, New Years, and the dreaded cold season, which I seem to recall dumped a little snow on us last year. What’s a parent with a child with
