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Like Olive Plants: April 2009
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Friday, April 24, 2009. I had planned to spend our spring break having tons of family fun. I had several beach days planned, a movie day, a trip to the science center, a hike on a nature trail. As usual, things didn't go exactly as I had planned. The best thing was that I was able to lay down on my belly by digging a hole in the sand and putting my towel over it. My big baby bump fit neatly into the hole. Very comfy. It would have been better if I'd remembered to bring a book! Tabitha: She'll be 8 in Jun...
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Like Olive Plants: January 2011
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Sunday, January 16, 2011. Every New Years Eve we all sit down together and write out our resolutions for the new year after reading our resolutions for the year that just passed. One of my resolutions for 2010 was "Have baby #10." It took all year, but that's one New Years resolution I managed to keep. Hopefully I'll be as successful with this year's resolution: "Lose the baby weight! Posted by Like Olive Plants. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Prayer for Owen Meany. A Thousand Splendid Suns. Where the Hea...
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Like Olive Plants: Long Overdue Update
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Friday, December 3, 2010. I'm not much of a blogger! It's been a year since my last entry. So much has changed since Levi was born, and I haven't documented any of it here. Blame Facebook. :) Besides the fact that the kids have grown a lot in the last year, we've also moved back to Colorado, and we're expecting our tenth and last baby, Sugarplum, who is scheduled to be born by c-section on Monday, 12-6. Da was hard on most of us. We left behind lots of friends. With September birthdays.). Actually, being...
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Like Olive Plants: July 2012
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012. For Clara- an update. Well, it's a good thing I don't try to make a living by blogging. We'd have surely starved to death by now. There doesn't seem to be much point in blogging, since we live near our families now, but Clara has been asking me to update the blog, so I figured I may as well. Levi (Bubba) and Ivy-Jane (Janie Cake). Violet is going into first grade, and she's missing so many teeth we call her "pumpkin." Gemma is going into second grade and is quite the gymnast.
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Like Olive Plants: Levi James
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Levi was born on September 18 at 12:45. He weighed 9 lbs, 6 ozs, and was 22" long. He is my biggest baby, beating Tabitha, the former heavy weight champion, who weighed in at 8 lbs, 11 ozs and 21 1/2" when she was born in '01. Levi shares a birthday with Clara, who was thrilled to get a brother for her 7th birthday. All of the girls are thrilled with Levi, as are Rob and I. But all I have to do to avoid such unpleasantness is cover him up with a diaper wipe while I change him.
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Like Olive Plants: May 2009
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Friday, May 15, 2009. This is me and Kiwi, halfway through, on Mother's Day. Most of the girls have gotten to feel him kick, and sometimes we can even see my belly move. Violet hasn't felt him kick yet, and she seems to be humoring me. She puts her hand on my belly for a second, then takes it off and says, "I felt him kick" (even though he didn't) and gives me an indulgent look: I know you're crazy, Mommy, but I'll play along. One day I asked her, "Is the baby in Mommy's tummy. Posted by Like Olive Plants.
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Like Olive Plants: January 2009
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Saturday, January 3, 2009. Lysistrata is alive and well in Naples. Read this article from. Women Go On Sex Strike. I wish I'd read Aristophanes'. With my AP class during the first quarter unit, Literature of the Ancient World. This is a perfect example of how themes from ancient Greek drama are applicable even today. The idea is humorous, but the underlying intent of these women is serious, just like in the play. Posted by Like Olive Plants. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Prayer for Owen Meany. We Were th...
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Like Olive Plants: Ivy-Jane's Birth
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Sunday, December 26, 2010. Ivy-Jane Ann Sheets was born on December 6, 2010 at 5:45 pm. She weighed 8 lbs 9 ozs and was 20" long. She has a full head of dark hair, like Juliet's, and I can't tell if her eyes are going to be blue or green or hazel or brown yet. She has a dimple in each cheek and one in her chin. She's absolutely perfect. Posted by Like Olive Plants. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Starting with the baby going clockwise: Levi, Zoe, Eve, Sophia, Juliet, Tabitha, Clara, Gemma, Violet.
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Like Olive Plants: With Child
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Monday, December 6, 2010. By Genevieve Taggard (1921). Now I am slow and placid, fond of sun,. Like a sleek beast, or a worn one,. No slim and languid girl – not glad. With the windy trip I once had,. But velvet-footed, musing of my own,. Torpid, mellow, stupid as a stone. You cleft me with your beauty's pulse, and now. Your pulse has taken body. Care not how. The old grace goes, how heavy I am grown,. Big with this loneliness, how you alone. Ponder our love. Touch my feet and feel. Hello, and welcome to...
