7 Quick Takes: Baby Edition

Last updated on: November 3, 2015 at 12:30 pm by Anne Kennedy

7 Quick Takes: Baby Edition 2015-11-03T12:30:05-04:00 Anne Kennedy

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This baby just slept through the night so I’m surprisingly awake at this time of the morning. I know this won’t happen again for many many many many days but I’m really grateful just this moment.
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In two weeks we will have had two funerals. The down side of this is that its really sad and awful. The upside is that my house is full of beautiful white funeral flowers that my mother and I have been coaxing along and hoping to put on the altar for All Saints. There’s something sort of bittersweet about bringing a baby into a house full of funeral flowers.
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We’ve temporarily solved the trouble of Halloween being the same day as Reformation Day. Last night, as a means of welcoming home this lovely new baby (who shares, by the way, a birthday with my dear cousin, Erasmus And John Cleese) we carved a pumpkin and ate Reformation sausages cooked in beer. Said Matt to the children, “Do you know why we’re cleaning out this pumpkin?”
“No!” they all shouted.
“Because,” he said, “on this day Martin Luther began the Reformation whereby all the gunk was cleaned out from the church.”
So Saturday we will go trick or treating without feeling like we’re missing the Reformation and later we’ll invite friends over (hopefully) for fondue to celebrate John Calvin. And I need to seriously think of some food for the English Reformation. hmmm.
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Continuing vaguely with the subject of Halloween, Elphine, this year, has determined to dress up as Queen Victoria. This is a direct result of Classical Conversations Week 9 History Sentence which begins ‘During the age of Imperialism…’ and was So catchy that my mother and I discovered ourselves both to be reading Kim in the hospital while I was in labor. The whole week has been taken up with volleys of emails between me, Matt and my mom comprising pictures and information of Queen Victoria and debates about whether Elphine should go as a Young Victoria, or Old Victoria or a Bride Victoria. Anyway you look at it, I don’t know how we’re going to make a crown.
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Romulus and Alouicious are going as knights. Gladys will be the proverbial Bee. New baby, hopefully, will be a chili pepper. It really saves time to have a standard set in this matter. Every child starts out in the nice soft felt chili pepper, graduates (hopefully angrily) to the bee which has a really fine stinger. And after that some choice may be exercised but we encourage the use of some favorite already existing costume.
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Speaking of Imperialism, we’re also reading the Jungle Book and the Just So Stories for school. Can you tell the Kipling is one my three all time favorite authors? Except that I’ve never actually read the Jungle Book as one who really hates suspense in any form. If my dad hadn’t read Kim to me as a child I never would have read it. So I’m pulling myself together and reading the Jungle Book out loud. It is So Exciting. When we get to the CC history sentences about Africa we’re going to read The Long Grass Whispers.
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So far, my favorite part about having 5 kids (besides the children themselves, which, obviously, is Joy Enough) is the look of horror when people, having asked ‘Is this your first baby?’
hear ‘well, no, its my 5th’.
AND then, usually, whoever it is will say something charming like
‘Wow, you don’t look it!’
By this they could mean that I look Way Too Young or that I’m Way Too Skinny. Either is just fine. Of course, I haven’t actually gone anywhere yet with all five, so who knows if the love will keep flowing.

Go check out Jen and have a lovely weekend.

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