Increasing our seasonal decorating has improved Zoe’s quality of life. Instead of just a day or two of decorating for Christmas each year, she gets to help me decorate for every season, plus a few holiday mixed in. This change has added several fun, productive days to her year, and they are not ove

Happy 6th Birthday to Ragland! His birthday was actually in July, and I’m late posting. 🙈 But he had a fun little party with lots of gifts that he was excited about. Ragland LOVES opening presents, and he fully participates. 🥰 🎁 #aussiedoodles #aussiedoodlesofinstagram #dogbirthdayp

Zoe really likes to be helpful. She likes to feel like she’s accomplishing something, which is part of what makes her dislike therapy. She doesn’t want to do it if it feels pointless, like she’s just doing it to do it. In helping to clean at a store, a restaurant, the library, or this gym, she isn’

Most of Zoe’s meals are the results of experiments we’ve done, based on ideas we’ve had for offering her a variety of meals that are easy for her to eat, that we think she will enjoy. Sometimes we love it the first time we make her something new. Other times, the texture or flavor needs some tweaki

This is the first vacuum + mop we’ve used and we are loving it! #autismparenting #bissellclean #vacuummop #bissellcrosswave @BISSELL Clean

#gifted_by_BISSELL Thank you, @BISSELL Clean ! We LOVE the Crosswave HydroScrub! #autismparenting #bissellclean #vacuummop

Zoe’s favorite, most talked-about part of vacation is vacuuming at the resort. She wants to clean the room, the hallway, anywhere she thinks could use it, and at the beach, that’s most everywhere since sand is so prolific. 😅 **Note: this is in no way related to the cleanliness of the resort itse