Eagan, Minn. (AP) — Leah Spring is at the helm of her home:
the kitchen island.
Tonight’s menu is summer-sausage-and-cheese sandwiches and
pineapple-mango fruit smoothies.
Inside this yellow house on the top of a hill in Eagan,
Spring, 47, lines up the slices of bread and listens as two of her five at-home
children — Angela, 18, and Axel, 14 — work on an art project.
When Spring is ready to serve dinner, her assistant, Dean
Ellingson — otherwise known as Dad — rounds up Abel, 12, and Audrey and Asher,
both 10.
Some might look at this family and see five children with
Down syndrome.
Not Spring.
“I just see kids,” she said.
Hers is a unique family, though, cobbled together through
marriage, biology, adoption and prayer.
A second act
If motherhood were a play, this would be Spring’s second
act.
Spring was 28 years old, busy raising her own two sons and
her husband’s two sons — Rob, 10; Noah, 9; Tyler, 8; and Bryon, 7 — when she
delivered a baby girl on June 6, 1996.
This little sister’s entrance into the world was dramatic.
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