Do you have trouble working from home because your kids cling to you? Do they complain that they’re constantly bored when you have an important Zoom meeting to attend? Being a special needs parent presents many challenges, and working is absolutely one of them. Many moms opt to leave the workforce altogether, some can’t and…
I feel like I owe everyone an apology. I had wanted to have Happily Ever Autism launched and active in April. I was working hard on it. But, as life has a way of doing sometimes, life here turned into a full blown, no nonsense, who’s your daddy sh*t show in late February, and I’m…
One of my goals for this blog is to make anyone who reads it feel better about their parenting skills. The best way I know how to accomplish this is by telling you some tales of my many parenting faux pas. I’ve been doing this mom thing now for 28 years, and I have quite…
Happily Ever Autism.com Was Specifically Designed for YOU (and here’s why) After my child was diagnosed in 2009, I headed right on over to the internet to do what most moms in this situation would do, research. But when I did a web search on autism the dominant page seemed to be Autism Speaks. At…
My blog exists to help parents of special needs children, particularly autism, to understand that their children are more than their diagnosis, and that an autism diagnosis isn’t the end of the world. I want to help moms in particular, because we are usually the primary caregivers, to understand that you are more than just…