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The Year That I Made Santa Claus Cry

Holidays with a non-verbal autistic child have never been easy. In fact, some holidays have fallen by the wayside completely- I’m looking at you Easter and Halloween. That’s not for a lack of trying because we did try. And maybe some holidays were salvaged or at least scaled down. Easter just couldn’t work for us and Halloween required a little bit of savvy on my part. Thanksgiving… well, we’re mostly okay. It’s a food related holiday, after all, and as long as we had food that was okay for Sweet B; we were fine. I just never expected for her to eat what everyone else was eating. Knowing what I know, it just wasn’t realistic. So that brings me to Christmas. My favorite holiday and…

Health and Wellness for Moms

One Easy Way that Busy Millennial Moms Can Support Their Health

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“This post was sponsored by Nature Made® as a part of an Ambassador Program for Influence Central.” Alright ladies, let’s be real for a minute here. If you’re a mom, how often do you really take time for yourself? How often do you do something that’s just for you? For that matter, what steps are you taking to take care of you? I’m not the best at self-care and I’m really not the best at maintaining a good level of health and fitness. I can provide you with a list of excuses and reasons. But, aside from a general lack of motivation at times; it boils down to one thing. Time. Maybe I just need to improve my time management skills in general but it’s…

Autistic Adults with ADHD

6 Easy Steps to a Clutter Free Home

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When you first move into your home it seems like you have so much space. Unless of course you’re downsizing and then it may seem like you don’t have enough space! As the years pass, you might find yourself becoming a pack rat. What are you going to do with all the stuff you have accumulated? Perhaps it’s time to weed out the unnecessary items and organize your home. Don’t panic at the thought of organizing your home, it’s really not that difficult, I promise! In fact, I want to share 6 easy steps to a clutter free home. Home organization is a step-by-step process. It will take more than a day or even a week to get everything to a manageable level, but once…

Money Matters

5 Tips for Teaching Your Kids to Save Money

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Saving money is an acquired skill. For some of us it may just come naturally and for some of us, it needs to become a mindful habit. If you’ve been here before, then you know that I advocate for teaching kids how to be money savvy. This is an important life skill (how to manage their money), that is often overlooked. But why touch on this more? Why the need for sharing five tips for teaching your kids to save money? For that matter, why bother repeating some of the previous tips found on this blog? Because one of the easiest ways to learn is through repetition. That and if this is your first time here, this is your first time seeing a post about…

Family Friendly Holidays

How Old is Too Old to Participate in Halloween Activities?

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As an adult, and parent, I have to wonder about this. How Old is Too Old to Participate in Halloween? At what age do you call it quits? The short answer, I would think, is when you’re ready. They sell plenty of costumes, after all, for adults. And there’s seemingly no shortage of Halloween decorations. So it’s really no wonder that in the United States, Halloween continues to be a multi-billion dollar industry. But when do you stop celebrating? When do you outgrow Halloween? For that matter, is it possible to outgrow Halloween? We have shared a few ideas for creating a toddler friendly Halloween, an autism friendly Halloween, and even a few costume ideas for the family. When it comes to trick-or-treating, I’ve also…

Spider Type Printable Cards for Toddlers and Preschoolers

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This week’s book in the Virtual Book Club for Kids is the Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle Eric Carle is a favorite author in this house so we were pretty excited to do something with this book. In fact, later on in our home preschool plans (at this point next year I’m thinking), we’ll do an Eric Carle unit. But, if you just want to base your own unit and study around spiders, instead of Eric Carle, then I have a few suggestions for you: & We’ll also be sure to take a walk at some point so we can go look for spider webs and spiders outside. I had wanted to set up a sensory bin, since this seems to be the…