About Eve with Updates
Prelude
November 2006
Here are some very special things about myself. I was born in a hospital in Virginia, Minnesota on November 20, 1983. One day later, my mom and dad brought me from the hospital to live in a small house in the woods. I was the youngest of the three girls and we also had goats and chickens and two cats. I shall never forget the times my mom and I went for walks in the woods and picked the beautiful wild flowers.
When I was four, my parents were divorced. My mom and Amanda and Star and I all moved to an apartment in Roseville, Minnesota. When I was 5 years old I was very sick. My family thought I was going to die. I didn’t die. One night I woke up and said mommy mommy I thought I saw a fairy. That’s when the angels first came to me. I believe that my angels have helped my health to improve. Now I send my angels out into the world where people might need them.
I collect angel souvenirs and statues. I also collect turtles and rocks. Besides collecting I like to read. I also like to cook and bake food such as chicken noodle soup and apple crisp. I like to do crafts with my oldest sister Amanda. I like being in plays. I love to paint landscapes with sunrises and sunsets more than anything. I also love to sing and my mom thinks I have the prettiest voice ever. When I’m in a sad mood I sing until I feel happy. Mostly what makes me unhappy is when I get headaches or I get sick. Sometimes my sister Star sings with me too and I really enjoy that a lot. My sister Star is so silly that I will always have fun with her.
I get to do lots of fun things. Like, once in a while I get to go and visit my dad up in the woods. My mom and I still go on walks and we read together. I also take walks with my dog Kingston who is a King Charles Cavalier English Spaniel. I am a responsible dog owner. Sometimes I go bowling with Star or my friend Christena or with Special Olympics friends. I have a very important job, which is cleaning at my church, and am I ever the lucky one because I get to listen to the church bells and organ when I clean.
If I could have one wish in the whole world it would be that I grow up healthy and become a famous artist. Debby Newman thought we should write a book about our memories. Here it is. I hope it brings happiness to your life. Eve
September 2007
Here are some new things going in my life. First of all, I am a proud Auntie to a 5 month year old, Katja Ruth Larsen who is so much fun to play all sorts of different games with. These are all of the different ways that I can be a good auntie and help out: including independently changing her cloth dirty diapers and I also feed her with a bottle of milk and I read Quack Quack with Katja. On June 8, I sang two songs in my mom’s wedding to her and Cliff. I sang What a wonderful world and All things bright and beautiful. Then we played softball.
I also went to horse camp at Friendship ventures where I got to spend two hole days brushing all of the horses with two different kinds of brushes. One of the brushes was a curry brush and I also rode on a English saddle and I rode on a western saddle and believe it or not I even rode a horse bare back! The names of my two favorite horses were Lady who had a golden reddish brown color coat, and the other horse that I rode was named Pete. He had a dark chocolately brown coat and the very tips of his ears were black.
The Family Reunion, which we had at Camp Koinonia where I was having a hard time learning so many different new names was interesting and fun. Very sad news to share would be that my wonderful Uncle Bill is very ill and just might die this year. No matter what I will always remember his humdinger hugs and his smile.
We still haven’t decided on what were going to serve at the St. Paul ART crawl, but Allie and Star have been coaching me on getting all of my paintings ready to show. I’m also getting ready for the State Bowling tournament with Special Olympics. Right now, I have to concentrate on getting ready to clean the church tomorrow.
Eve Marie
September 2008
My newest interest in art is to show where in the world I have been. For instance on Tuesday I will be glazing my very first buffalo. So do you want to guess where I went this summer with my mom and my moms husband Cliff and my sister Amanda and her husband Peter and my very energetic baby niece, and some other very special people in our families? I will not say so you have to come and see where thousands of buffalo got in our way of driving.
Another place I have been would be horse camp, where a very disgusting thing, happened, I had to scoop up horse poop. However, I also got to help with making a meal for one of the older horses. When I was done with work, I rode on Glittered who was a black horse and who is four years old.
This summer, we also went to a Lake in Aitkin, Minnesota where I caught over half of our breakfast! Can you believe it?
Some other things happened this year too. I helped with cleaning my mom's condo in Sarasota, Florida this summer. I got to go jumping in the waves and of course I ate a lot of kinds of ice creams at Big Olafs, even a garbage cone.
I still help with our dog Kingston by taking him out for some of his shorter walks during the week and weekends. I am still involved with Special Olympics and bowing practicing happens on Sundays. One Sunday I sang All things bright and beautiful in my church with my friend Allie. People actually clapped when we were done singing.
Some other highlights of this year would be one that my grandma Margie moved to her new condo by us and two that Katja can walk with very little help needed and she can talk too. Three is that I still love to paint and you can see my paintings at my sister Star's artist loft at the St. Paul Art Crawl!!!
October 2009
One thing that I have not told you about quite yet would be that my family and I moved into a new house and I have the lower level for my independent apartment living, including my new art studio.
The Second thing that I am going to tell you about would be that I have my very own garden, which has green beans and other kinds of foods growing inside of it.
My mom, Cliff, and I spent a week up in a cabin in Aitkin Minnesota by Cedar Lake and my mom and I and my sister Amanda caught a few fish that my mom cleaned and cooked up for us to eat as a part of our trip, and I also helped out with my two year old niece, Katja by playing with toys and also reading to her when she went to bed at night, and singing songs to help her go to sleep. That was a lot of fun for me!
This summer, I also had an interview with someone from Special Olympics. I answered all of the questions, and the interview went very well, and I learned that only four women and men bowlers get to go to Nationals and I get to represent Minnesota next year in Lincoln, Nebraska. I will be very excited doing this for everyone on my Flames team.
About my artwork. I sold the Eiffel Tower at the Sister Kinney International Art Show this year. I finished a painting from the song All Things Bright and Beautiful, and The Sound of Music and I did a few paintings from the play Mary Popins and other songs. This year I sold lot’s of my cards and a few paintings at the St Paul Art Crawl in my sister Star’s loft. I also sold one of my sculptures of an angel that I made at Interact Center for Artists. My mom bought it. I completed the painting of my sister Amanda pushing me up a hill when I was five years old and it was on the cover of the program for the United Methodist Church conference.
During the Summer time I went to horseback riding camp and I learned many new things, for example, when you want your horse to turn right you need to pull the rains slightly to the right and if you want the horse to go to the left you do the same thing in that direction. The name of the horse that I was riding on is Blackie and he is mostly black except for the area over his hoofs is white and there’s a white star on his forehead. I also went horseback riding with my sister Star at an apple orchard.
I have a kitchen in my apartment, so I am including meals that I plan on making for my mom and me and Cliff to eat with each other. Eve’s home made chicken noodle vegetable soup served with rosemary olive oil bread to go with the soup made from fresh ingredients. For the second meal, plans would be fresh salads with mixed greens and carrots that are thinly sliced with a few baby tomatoes and for the second course, there would be rosemary carrots and for desert, we will have pudding.
I enjoy typing up all sorts of different kinds of stories that I think of all on my very own. Dreams are one of my ways of helping me out with ideas for doing a lot of writing. Sometime I will put one of the stories that you would find rather interesting to read on this website.
Eve