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| User: | altarflame (1087388)  Life's been good to me so far
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. |
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| Name: | tina long-winded marie | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1981-10-24 | |||||
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| Bio: | I was an honor student with full paid scholarships and no desire to be a mother, and then I got pregnant. And so began a slow metamorphosis wherein I became *really interested* in gardening, homeschool curriculums and cloth diaper patterns. I drive a minivan and don't see anything wrong with that. It's a cool minivan. I'm a Christian with a wide spectrum of friends and relatives, ranging from gay and pagan to devoutly orthodox and conservative. I am comfortable with the former but leaning more and more towards the latter as I learn. And I've recently went from being serially barefoot to understanding this whole shoe thing women do. My husband is my best friend since I was 13. My kids are made entirely of awesome. There are five of them, described below. And mostly we laugh. I have an itch to knit and sew, and a burning passion to write, get on fair rides and run around in the rain. Sometimes I can outrun myself on a roadtrip or drown myself in a frappuccino. In response to the Indigo Girls, yes - I am on fire from the years. I try not to judge other people from my own set of circumstances, but from their perspective. Because I've sure changed my mind about plenty of things, and we're all just people. "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Do you realize that everyone you love, Someday, will die? So instead of saying all of your goodbyes Let them know you realize that life goes fast - It's hard to make the good things last You realize the sun doesn't go 'round; It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.... -The Flaming Lips The husband is: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} theneolistickidThe kids are: Ananda, or Annie, born June 1, 2000. Very intense, extremely advanced and intelligent. Enthusiasitc about ballet for several years now, starting to play the flute and a huge fan of chapter books by Roald Dahl, or about Narnia, Oz or Harry Potter. Physically uncoordinated and totally unwilling to "perform" in any capacity - except in dance, where both of those things are somehow transcended. Long time fascination with marine biology, loves to paint and draw. Half of the Dynamic Duo "A and A". Aaron, born June 27, 2001. Empathetic but scatter brained, intuitive yet hyper. Has the determination to learn to ride a bike or read on his own. Huge appreciation for beauty, very sensitive, EXTREMELY rough and tumble physically. Aaron was riding a skateboard before he turned 2, and is currently persuing learning to play tennis, going to the BMX track, karate classes and begging for a unicycle. Has an uncanny way with animals. Unravels in very loud and crowded situations, or when there is too much going on at once. Empathy does not extend to Isaac. The other half of the inseparable "A and A". Isaac, born February 20, 2004. Isaac grew from a very difficult baby into an IMPOSSIBLE toddler; he was frequently referred to only as "The Tyrant" in this journal, for about 3 years. Pale, reddish haired and blue eyed, he stands out in our family as the lone carrier of recessive genes, the middle child, and the only one who hates what the rest love: our cat, swimming, mushrooms, carnival rides, you name it. Isaac is incredibly smart, though, as well as very flirty and charming. He whines a LOT, has a nervous laugh when scared or in trouble that's rather unnerving, and panics at odd times. When not worried, though, he's adorable - cute squared and taken to a whole new level. Never stops talking. Loves Dora the Explorer, and knight and dragon toys. Has always had troubled sleep frought with nightmares and woken up in bad moods. Jake, born October 11, 2005, is also known as Jakosaurus Rex, Jakaroni and Cheese, Jakey, Ha-cob, Jeac, Jacobey...you get the picture. He has a great sense of humor, is INCREDIBLY affectionate, and has a pretty horrible bad temper that has an inverse relationship to his blood sugar. We're like peas and carrots, Jake and I - a mole on my arm is his comfort object, and we have all kinds of little lovey rituals. He is known to become violent or start growling at people who cross him, however. Naked 90% of the time, and able to strip in under 30 seconds. Self potty trained. Plays well with everyone Elise was born via emergency cesarean on May 1, 2007. Diagnosed with Hypoxic Ischemic Encephelopathy, or HIE, and having seizures, all of her abdominal organs were shut down for over a week due to oxygen deprivation in utero that also caused moderate to severe brain damage to several portions of her brain. Elise spent over 3 weeks in NICU care as neurologists told us she would never be an individual and caregivers warned us she may need a G-Tube if she couldn't eat. Hundreds of people around the world prayed for her and followed online updates. Elise woke up from a week long sleep of sedation and trauma, and when she did she began what looks so far (at 7 months old) to be a complete recovery. She was weaned from anti-seizure meds at 2.5 months old when she got good EEG results back, her tremors and tone issues faded away at around 4 months and at 7 months she is an old hand at sitting and crawling, who plays peekaboo if you hand her a piece of fabric, pulls up on and walks along the couch, and has said "Dada". She is a very happy, very easy baby who alternates between independant exploring, and AWESOME cuddling, with some playtime in between. | |||||
| Memories:: | 63 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | over 10 public | |||||
| Interests: | 146: (reuseable) bags, alaska, alexander mcqueen, alliteration, ana voog, anna maria horner, anti-circumcision, anti-myspace, anti-nestle, anti-p.e.t.a., anti-porn, anti-walmart, archetypal imagery, attachment parenting, baby wearing, baking, being 6 forever, being a closet goth, being cracked, belly casts, bible study, big ol' cadillacs, bloody rose petal red, brain injuries, breastfeeding, c.s. lewis, calvin and hobbes, chaplaincy, chemistry, child psychology, child-led learning, cleaning, cloth diapers, co-sleeping, collages, communion, community supported agriculture, conservative, crochet, dark tower, devotion, dinner as a family, disciples of christ, dissociative disorder, dresses with pants, e.e. cummings, elle, exhileration, eye contact, fabric, fair rides, family naptime, fantasies, farmer's markets, frappuccino, gardening, gentle discipline, grant's chili, harlem rennaissance, harry potter, haulocaust, hbac, holidays, homebirth transfers, homeschool, indigo girls, insanity, insomnia, inspiration, intensity, ivillage messageboards, jacksonville, jazz in the background, jesus christ, kevin smith, key west, kino sandals, kites, knitting, kozy carrier, kurt vonnegut, lauren slater, laying on the sidewalk, lord of the rings, lust, maya angelou, mermaids, midwives, monogamy, mushrooms, natural birth, neurology, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, nigella lawson, nirvana, not eating constantly, nutrition, october, odwalla, oldies, orthodox christianity, oz, people who feel, perception, picnics, poetry, potential energy, pro-life, radiohead, rain, recessive genes, red hot chili peppers, researching, russia, sanctity, sensory integration disorder, sewing, silence, sincerity, sleep deprivation, solitude, southern living magazine, spanish translations, spinning in circles, spiral notebooks, starbucks, swimming, tetris, textiles, the big lebowski, the colbert report, the institutes in philadelphia, therapy, tori amos, traditions, trees, unit studies, vbac, vulnerability, water, whole foods, wool diaper covers, writing, ya-yas, yarn | |||||
| Schools: | Miami Dade College - Homestead - Homestead, FL South Dade High School - Homestead, FL (1996 - 2000) | |||||
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