Winneshiek Fair ’16

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This is the second year that Lance and I have attempted the Winneshiek County Fair with all four kids. We didn’t bring a stroller, but we brought a plan: we’d visit the animals, the petting zoo, the rides, get our …

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Autism and Me (The Sibling)

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For approximately five years, there have been various support personnel in my sphere – from DHS home visitors to medical doctors – who have asked me if I had any questions or needed any information. The one thing that I …

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A Bike-Riding First

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Today, I was determined that we were going to go bike riding. AJ simply doesn’t have the confidence to balance and pedal on his pedal bike, and can’t go fast enough to keep up with adults on the balance bike. We are …

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First Ride of Spring

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Bike riding is a thing, at our house. When spring comes, we tend to put away model trains (or just kind of leave them where they drop…) and pull out the bikes. The day we went to the train show, …

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Sleep Troubles

I was up way too late last night, looking at cool stuff on Amazon and Hobbylinc and listening to an audiobook version of “Xenocide” (the third novel in the Ender series). I didn’t actually get to sleep until, like, midnight. …

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Elsa vs Megatron

This weekend, Evie managed to fill her sticker chart and earn herself a new toy. Today, I needed to do some shopping, so I took AJ and Evie along with. As I was leaving, I mentioned to Tim that Evie …

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Steam Engine Day

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Sometime in March, I was telling a coworker about how very, very much my Olin loves trains. She said, “Well, then you definitely have to go to Steam Engine Days in Mabel!” So, I put it on my calendar, and …

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Beautiful Sunday

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Today was a bit of an adventure. I took the boys and Evie to church where the boys had a blast playing with the train table in the nursery, and Evie fussed through the service. After church, we got lunch …

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