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Special Needs Parenting (Autism, CP & Moebius Syndrome), Kid Travel Tips & Mom Self Care

14/10/2025

You don’t realize how seldom they’ll ride with you after they get a drivers license until it’s been literal MONTHS since you’ve been in a car together.

10/10/2025

Zoe’s door has been the same for a long time, other than a few additions here and there. She’s loved butterflies since she was tiny and we put them on her door over 10 years ago.

She doesn’t typically like change, so I was surprised when she showed me these sunflower decals on Amazon and said she was redecorating her door with them. But we got started. I think shes signaling to us that she’s growing up a bit. ❤️

08/10/2025

For each trip we take, we have the girls create a vacation wishlist. This tells us their TOP priorities for the trip, the things they want to do, see, eat, THE MOST. We do this because we want to make sure those things happen; we make them our priorities. What we’ve learned in doing this, though, is that the parts of the trip they most look forward to is not what we’d typically expect.

But that’s why we do it. That, and the planning and anticipation of a trip is also a big part of the fun, so we want them involved in it too. ❤️

05/10/2025

We are so proud that Abby has been chosen as a Lights Camera Fashion Model to walk in a fashion show and model prom dresses for the 2026 season. Proceeds from the show will benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital , and the girls will also participate in several other fundraisers over the coming months. If you would like to donate, I have a link in my bio where you can donate directly.

We had so much fun helping her choose her favorite dress and the one that she’ll wear for the fashion show.

A few weeks before that I got to join Abby for the denim-themed kick-off party where we got to meet the other girls and hear about what to expect for the year.

03/10/2025

We are absolutely not being critical of typical kids or their parents. We just know that our autistic child cannot deal with the typical sounds they make, and her outbursts tend to make other parents feel uncomfortable or like it’s their fault she’s upset. But it’s not. They are just existing, and we know that, but it doesn’t make a difference to Zoe when she’s overwhelmed.

02/10/2025

Our daughter loves going shopping with us. She gets to go to a store almost every week, sometimes more, since I needed a couple of things mid-week this week. Zoe loves to help clean and straighten the shelves while we are there. I love that the workers are so sweet and encouraging to her. They also always let her take photos of the radios they carry because they know how much she loves them.

This is a really good experience for her. She gets to practice many of her therapy skills, without even realizing it, like walking, keeping her balance while she carries things and straightens items on the shelf, interacting with others, even just tolerating being around people, which is hard for her. But this makes it fun. We’re also taking a break from physical therapy, so all of this walking and practice with balance is even more important now to keep her progress going.

25/09/2025

Happy Daughters’ Day to these beauties 🌻

24/09/2025

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks with Abby wrapping up her final aerial show since she’s a senior this year.

She’s been in rehearsals every spare minute, plus some, and I’ve been making mummy brownies to sell in concessions, corralling girls backstage on show nights and snagging selfies with my gorgeous girl when she walks by me.

She had a solo silks routine and a trapeze duet with her silks bestie. The trapeze was a new addition to the show this year (and new to both of them), and they rocked it.

One of my favorite parts of this show is not just watching her perform, but seeing her influence on the younger girls since she’s been the assistant coach this year. I’ve seen so much of her style and so many drops and maneuvers that I recognize from past routines or that I saw her teach to herself these past years.

Abby has every intention of continuing to train in the aerial arts even after high school, so I’m hopeful that we’ll get to see her perform again. She’s truly amazing.

09/09/2025

From Zoe’s first day of school 📚
Zoe started early August, a couple of weeks before our vacation, but Abby’s classes didn’t start until just after our trip (almost 3 weeks later).

We decide when Zoe starts school, but since Abby is doing dual-enrollment classes, she follows the college’s schedule.

29/08/2025

Back to school 📚

Abby started her senior year this week with all dual-enrollment classes (pre-calculus, anatomy & physiology and American literature), and Zoe started high school (still homeschooling) just before we left for vacation, so she’s been going for a few weeks now.

Leading up to our beach trip, Zoe decided she wanted to learn about the ocean, snorkeling, and scuba diving so she focused on that for science. Often, rather than doing units in the order the book has them, we’ll skip around to coincide with her interests, mostly just in science though. That doesn’t work as well in most of the other areas.

28/08/2025

Ormond Beach, FL 🏖️

Sorry to spam you with vacation photos, but I promise I’m almost done. 😅

I usually do a question box on the drive home and I didn’t this trip, so drop your questions below if you have them. ⬇️

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