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It was December 29, 2015 and we just finished a conversation via Skype with Fox (and his mom Lisa) and Brayden (and his mom Jen) and Ryan wrote:  I AM TOO WISHING TO SEE MY FRIENDS IN PERSON.  I felt sad.  I thought to myself that everyone wants friends, especially ones that they could spendContinue reading “Passports and Best Friends Vacation Days 1,2,&3”

So this improved way of delivering quality lessons to Ryan has really helped with his creative thinking and writing.  It allows for more outside of the box learning, not just memorization of facts.  It allows the student to apply what they have learned previously and what they are learning now to make it more ofContinue reading “Role Models and Ryan’s Story”

So I can’t believe that it is the end of June.  I knew that this would be a busy month, but sheesh.  This month started with me attending the first annual RPM Homeschooling Parents Retreat Weekend in Maryland.  This was my first time traveling without kids on an airplane in 10 years.  The weekend wasContinue reading “A Retreat, The Cruise, and Training”

Ryan has still been very interested in talking to employees in stores.  The problem was that when we got to a store, it became hard to think of questions on the fly and all of the distractions made it harder to organize his thoughts in a new environment.  We decided that it would be bestContinue reading “New Field Trips and the Last Day of School”

Over the past 7 months, we have discovered that Ryan is a big fan of ballads and love songs.  With Music Tuesdays, we either have a lesson about an artist, a genre of music, or anything else musically related.  We also listen to a lot of music, especially via YouTube and Pandora.  Ryan’s music teacher,Continue reading “Ryan’s Music Playlist & Music Homework (Spoiler Alert: One is a Song About Grandpa Bob)”

This past weekend, Ryan, Grace, Randy, and I traveled to Tallahassee, Florida for Uncle Doug’s college graduation from Florida State University.  We met up with the family on Friday afternoon and spent some time with each other and then all of us headed back to our hotel in Bainbridge, Georgia (which was about 50 minutesContinue reading “The Graduation and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter”

After posting the video of Ryan spelling with his letter board, we received the following questions.  I wrote back directly to the person who submitted them, but I thought that they were great questions and that our readers could benefit from them.  With her permission, I have posted the questions below and I have answeredContinue reading “RPM Questions and Answers”

  We have talked about how RPM has been life changing for the family before, but I wanted to give you another example. Lately, we have been doing board games at home and at family events and we include Ryan.  Some of the games that we have played are Headbands, Guess Who, Boggle (this oneContinue reading “Board Games, the JFK Assassination, and One of Ryan’s Stories”

So, this happened on Monday. Ryan knew that we were going to Opening Day for the Texas Rangers for a couple of weeks now.  He also knew that it was just a special date with his parents by himself.  Over the past week, he would every so often spell something like EAGER FOR OPENING DAYContinue reading “Opening Day, the Autism Experience Video, and Adventures”

I asked Ryan if we could write a post about Autism Awareness Month as it begins April 1st.  He thought that this was a good idea.  I asked him what he thought about a whole month being devoted to Autism Awareness. His response:  I FIND THAT CARING HAS TO BE TOO MUCH MEANINGFUL, SO GIVEContinue reading “Autism Awareness (I mean ACTION) Month and Some New Skills (and a Video!)”