Autism/Special Needs, Awareness, Daily Life 
6 Comments I get to go away this weekend!!!
I am so excited. I can hardly believe this has all worked out, but I am going to be attending 2 days of the DAN! conference in Cherry Hill, NJ tomorrow and Saturday. I had really wanted to go but couldn’t afford it, plus I know they will eventually have most of the sessions on their website as videos.
Well, yesterday morning an email came around that one of the exhibitors for the conference, Kirkman Labs, was looking for parent volunteers and would pay their registration for the conference. When I talked to the person in charge, she said they still needed someone for Friday and I could attend the sessions in between helping at the booth (just missing the first and last few minutes of each one).
By limiting my hotel stay to one night instead of two, we are able to pay my way to attend on Saturday as well, so I will be leaving at the oh-so-early-for-me hour of 5am to get there in time tomorrow morning and coming home Saturday night. Praise God that my husband was on board with the idea right away, my boss let me have the day off, I found someone to pick up the Little Guy from daycare and watch him until my husband gets off work, and another friend loaned me her laptop so I can type up my notes and hopefully get online tomorrow evening!!
Even though it will be a couple of long days and pretty tiring, I’m sure, it will also be nice to be learning a lot and meeting new people (hmm, that sounds a lot like when I started blogging!).
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Will be interested to hear what you learn!
Have a lovely couple of days away, and enjoy yourself!
Hi! I just found your blog and have enjoyed reading it. How exciting that you’re able to attend a DAN! conference! I’m hoping that one day they hold a conference that’s a bit closer to where I am. Yeah, down here in the “dirty south” as the rappers say! lol
Have fun. I have heard great things about DAN.
Can’t wait to hear what you learn this weekend!
Thank you all. The conference was wonderful and I met some really great people as well. I am so thankful I had the opportunity to get away for a couple of days!