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Tx - Oooh, this will be fun - my story won’t match reality unless you are tripping though 😃 … I’m from of family of 7 siblings myself. Chaos Theory in motion …. SAHM 1. Sebastian and Eliza 2. Addison, Madison, Caleb, Sabastian, Olivia, Lola, Chloe 3. Maeve, Henry, and Grace 4. Luke, Mara, Olivia 5. Henry and Helene 6. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie 7. Claire 8. Peter 9. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah 10. Anya and Margo 11. Andre |
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1. Sebastian and Eliza
2. Addison, Madison, Caleb, Sabastian, Olivia, Lola, Chloe 3. Maeve, Henry, and Grace 4. Luke, Mara, Olivia 5. Henry and Helene 6. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie 7. Claire 8. Peter 9. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah 10. Anya and Margo 11. Daniel, Zara, Dean 12. Andre |
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Sebastian: Latin for "venerable" or "revered." St. Sebastian was a martyr, and his name gained popularity during the middle ages and crusades. Well-known Sebastians: Johann Sebastian Bach; the crab character in Disney's The Little Mermaid. Eliza: feminine Hebrew name meaning "My God is an oath" or "joyful." First developed as a diminutive of Elizabeth in the 16th century and its use as an independent name started in the 18th century You are a coin dealer in Washington DC who trades rare coins and medals to top dealers such as Capitol Coins, Coins International, Maryland Coin Exchange, Bonanza Coins, Leidman Julian, and Alexandria Gold and Silver. Your children Sebastian and Eliza are named for your favorite coin/ medal of all time: a rare 1951 mint of the Medal of the Royal Society of St. Sebastian, Bruges. The medal honors The (then) Princess Elizabeth and H.R.H. Prince Philip being created as Honorary Members of the Royal Society. The Guild of Saint Sebastian is an archers' guild that has already been in existence for more than 600 years, which is unprecedented anywhere in the world. The members of this longbow guild are exclusively male, with two notable exceptions: Queen Mathilde of Belgium and the Queen of England. Ever since the exiled English King Charles II took up residence in Bruges in the 17th century, the city and the British Royal Family have always been closely associated with the St. Sebastian Archery Guild. Charles II founded both the British Grenadier Guards and the Life Guards Regiment. The archery range is housed in a building complex dating from the 16th to the early 19th century. You are not British but a committed Anglophile who hopes to relocate eventually to the poshest part of England, Surrey. You are preparing by: - hiring British elocution experts to teach the correct pronunciation of every single word in the English language; - having a large supply of red trousers, old jumpers (sweaters) and Wellingtons (rain boots); - securing an embellished deed of ancestral nobility so that you can own a second house in the country that was built by an ancestor; - Listening to the British Shipping Forecast so you will be able to chat at the Golf Club (Brit version of country club); - Advertising that you like rubgy and cricket, but know nothing about football (soccer); and - opening a bank account with Handelsbanken (used to be Coutts but that’s for footballers now). Your Sebastian and Eliza attend the lower school of the for-profit British International School of Washington. BIS is not as elite as you would prefer, but Sebastian’s and Eliza’s British accents are coming along nicely. You attend an Episcopalian church in Georgetown in expectation of transferring to a Church of England in Surrey. The Episcopalian branch of the Anglican World Wide Communion is a little too earnest, liberal and do gooder for your tastes. However, Saint Sebastian and Saint Elizabeth are venerated in both Anglican and Catholic traditions, which pleases you. |
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Addison, English origins, surname meaning “son of Adam.” Madison: Like her rhyming sister Madison, Addison is a surname name, a trend that has taken the world by storm. She’s also unisex, a trend that isn’t going away anytime soon. Caleb: Hebrew for “faithful,” “whole-hearted,” “bold,” or “brave.” Some people also think that it might mean “devotion to God.” In the Bible, Caleb was a companion of Joshua and Moses Sabastian: Greek for Revered. The twin brother of Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. A third-century martyred centurion who became St. Sebastian patron saint of soldiers. Olivia: Latin name meaning "olive tree," and the feminine alternative to the boy name Oliver. Records of the name Olivia date back to 13th-century England. Its initial popularity might be attributed to the beautiful, sought-after heiress in William Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night. Lola: A pet form of Dolores, which is Spanish for "sorrows". Lola is popular in the music world: English rock band The Kinks released a song called "Lola" in 1970, and Mcfly drummer, Harry Judd, has a daughter named Lola. The moniker also features in several cartoons, being the name of Bugs Bunny's girlfriend, and one of the main characters in "Charlie and Lola". Chloe: Chloe is the English form of the French name Chloé. Both versions are derived from the Greek Khlóe, which literally means 'young green shoot' (of a plant) and which has been interpreted as meaning 'blooming'. The biological mom of Addison and Maddison graduated from Colombia law school and works for a public interest law firm on K Street. It is a private, for-profit association of lawyers, like any other private law firm but it is distinguished from private firms in that its primary mission is to assist underrepresented people or causes, rather than to make money. Since 2016, the vast majority of cases have been hate crimes. This hard working idealist lobbied the U.S. Attorney For D.C. to increase prosecutions against hate crimes, which they finally did in 2020. Being so busy and stressed fighting for clients whose lives were often derailed by mindless hate took its toll on the marriage and the couple parted company amicably. Addison and Maddison names were chosen for their appeal as being gender neutral, and traditional but modern and crisp. The biological mother of Caleb, Sebastian and Olivia who is the step mother of Addison and Maddison, and the adoptive mother of Lola and Chloe, is a professor of English Literature and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University. Super Mom specializes in Virginia Woolf but has a soft spot for William Shakespeare. Caleb is named for his culturally Jewish father and grandfather.They do not attend synagogue. Sebastian and Olivia are named for their mother’s favorite Shakespeare comedy play, Twelfth Night (1600). Sebastian is noble and capable of strong, deeply felt emotion, just like his sister Viola. He is also the only major character in the play who never engages in deception. Olivia is an orphaned, gray-eyed countess who has sworn to remain in mourning for seven years after the recent death of her brother. Olivia is a beautiful woman with strong emotional reactions. The names of youngest children who are adopted from China symbolizes the high value their mother places on women, girls and their friendships with each other. Her favorite female author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was known for her revolutionary modernist fiction, but she also played a pivotal figure in women’s literary history. Woolf delivered the comprehensive essay “A Room of One’s Own,” as a lecture to a female audience at Newnham College, Cambridge, encouraging women to “have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly what we think.” In chapter five of her essay, Woolf proposed the then revolutionary concept of friendship between two women. While reading Mary Carmichael’s fictional novel Life’s Adventures, Woolf is interrupted by the statement “Chloe liked Olivia.” Although this appears simple, ‘Chloe’ and ‘Olivia’ represent a proposition for the renovation of relationships between women. Previously, unless the relationship between two women was a cat fight of sorts, the relationship of two women was not discussed in literature. Oftentimes, the relationships between women in literature illuminate women detesting each other. Woolf continues by stating, “Chloe liked Olivia” perhaps for the first time in literature. This theme of women and girls liking each other extends to all children, male and female in the family. Astonishingly, all seven siblings in this blended family have made it onto the 2021 nice list. (https://christmasaffairs.com/docs/Naughty-and-Nice-List-2021.pdf) This is the North Pole Government’s Department for Christmas Affairs Secretary’s Naughty and Nice list to the Minister for Christmas Affairs for the year 2021. This list relates to the people of the world’s performance for 2021 against the measures outlined in the Christmas Behaviour Statements. Addison: nice Madison: nice Caleb: nice Sabastian: nice Olivia: nice Lola: nice Chloe: nice Addison and Maddison have already been trained as Department of Christmas Affairs Nice Coaches so that they can help other blended families in the DMV/ DC area to achieve nice relations As part of the Department of Christmas Affairs’ naughty rehabilitation program, a team of Nice Coaches help individuals achieve Nice status or make specific changes in their lives in a supportive, collaborative, strategic, accountable and empowering way. Nice coaches can address particular behaviours measured by the Official Naughty & Nice evaluation system. Nice coaches can help: • Achieve nice short & long term goals • Personal training to develop nice default behaviours • Find the perfect naughty/nice balance Part of this training involves educating others that any adopted children are real siblings of any biological children, and that adoptive parents of different races are real parents. Real parents are the ones who educate, clothe, feed, love and care for children whether or not they are biological parents. Another part of the training involves providing strategies for children of divorced parents to maintain good relations with both parents and to embrace and respect new step parents and their children without alienating biological parents. This latter part can be extremely sensitive and take time to figure out. |
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Maeve: traditional Irish name that comes from the Old Irish name Medb, which may mean “the intoxicating one” or “she who rules.” The name appears in Irish mythology, too, as the name of the Queen of Connacht and the name of the queen of the fairies. Henry: French name derived from the French name Henri, which derived from Heimeric, an old German name that means “house ruler.” It was introduced to England by the Normans in the form Henri. During the Middle Ages this name became enormously popular in England and was borne by eight kings. Grace: Latin as reference to "God's grace." Grace's meanings include charm, goodness, and generosity. Grace is one of the most popular virtue names. Maeve, Henry Grace have been popular names in your Irish American family for hundreds of years. Almost half of Washington, D.C.'s population in 1816 was Irish with the main wave of immigrants arriving during the Potato Famine in the late 1840s and early 1850s. While settling into the nation's capitol, the Irish most populated three D.C. neighborhoods: Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, and Swampoodle. Your Celtic descendants settled in Georgetown into a modest row house that is now worth millions of dollars. Your descendants attended St. Patrick's Catholic Church, which was established in 1794, primarily to meet the needs of Irish immigrants at work on the White House and the Capitol building. Bishop John Carroll appointed an Irish Dominican, Fr. Anthony Caffry, as its first pastor. The first American to be ordained a priest in the United States, Fr. William Matthews, was named pastor of St Patrick’s in 1804. This trail blazing clergyman held the post for fifty years, during which time he was also President of Georgetown University, Administrator of the Philadelphia Diocese, co-founder of the D.C. Public Library, long-time member of the D.C. Public School Board, as well as founder or promoter of innumerable institutions (e.g. Gonzaga College, Visitation Convent, and St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum). Your male relatives attended Gonzaga while you and other female relatives attended Georgetown Visitation. Your parents had a dream: They proposed opening a National Irish American Museum Of Washington, D.C. to honor Ireland’s legacy in America. The museum's objective is "to become a major cultural institution that will bring Irish-American history to life for visitors of all ages, from all ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. The museum was proposed in 2008, but active fundraising was deferred due to the Financial crisis of 2007–08, and in 2015 the Washington Post deemed the museum unlikely to ever open. Showing true Irish resilience, you helped your parents to create a digital "Virtual Museum" with a short video and biographical sections on numerous Irish Americans from 1776 to the modern era in the fields of innovation, acting, the arts, leadership, legal, media, medical, military, music, science, technology, and sports. |
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Ah sorry - was busy trying to create holiday joy for family and friends (cards, gifts, unwise travel to nyc) but will try and knock out some soon …My Imagination needed refreshing and nyc is amazing for that … you can’t make up the encounters there 😂 … |
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Some mitigated holiday cheer while I ponder the ancient ancestral roots of Sebastian and Eliza …
🎄 To the tune of Tannenbaum 🎄 🔥 O Climate Change, O Climate Change How lovely are thy Northern winters! 🔥 O Climate Change, O Climate Change How furious are thy Southern summers! ☔️ Your storms so fierce in El Niño years, 🌪 Tornados, fires, floods and droughts raise fears ♾ Now every year feels like an El Niño year 🌪 Natural disasters routinely appear 🔥 O Climate Change, O Climate Change How lovely are thy northern Winters ❤️SAHM (100% gluten full and jazzed to be here) |
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Sebastian: means “venerable” or "revered" in Latin, and comes from the Latin word “Sebastianus,” which was used to refer to a person from Sebaste, the name of a town in Asia Minor that is now the city of Sivas in Turkey).
Sebastian is popular in countries as widespread as Austria, Denmark, Romania, Australia and Chile. Some more down-to-earth nicknames for Sebastian are Seb, Baz and Bas. Eliza, a variation of Elizabeth, Hebrew name meaning “God's oath; dedicated, Consecrated to God.” According to Social Security Administration data, Eliza is slowly increasing in popularity after breaking the top 200 in 2015. It broke the top 120 in 2019 and has been steadily increasing since. It is the 3rd most popular name on FamilyEducation.com. Eliza may also be used as a variant of the Hebrew name Aliza, עַלִיזָה meaning "joyful" 🇨🇳 Your parents were Chinese dissidents who narrowly escaped from The Tiananmen Square massacres following student protests in 1989. Although they were highly disorganized and their goals varied, the students called for greater accountability, constitutional due process, democracy, freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. At the height of the protests, about one million people assembled in the Square. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre were widely blasted on Western TV. Chinese troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square. The protests started on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when the government declared martial law and sent the People's Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more Wounded. 🌎 Angry Denunciations came reigning down from many countries in both Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Australia and some east Asian and Latin American countries. But, many Asian countries such as India remained silent throughout the protests and violent suppression so as not to jeopardize thawing in relations with China. Authoritarian regimes in North Korea, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany (just before their own Wall with West Germany and the iron curtain came down), among others, supported the Chinese government and denounced the protests. Overseas Chinese students demonstrated in many cities in Europe, America, the Middle East, and Asia against the Chinese government. Your parents felt betrayed by China and many neighboring Asian countries. They decided to get out, preferably to the USA, which was then still the number one favored destination for many political Asylum seekers, but really anywhere with a functioning democracy would have done. Miraculously, your parents were among seven of the twenty one most wanted student protest leaders of Tiananman Square revolt who managed to get out along with their good friend Zhang Boli who wrote Escape from China. Mr. Zhang is currently a Christian pastor at the Harvest Chinese Christian Church near Washington, D.C. Your parents are deeply religious realizing how precious and arbitrary their freedom is. Your parents wanted to honor their new homeland and Western countries who supported their idealistic pursuit of democratic and civil rights in China by choosing names that have illustrious Christian meanings and can be pronounced in multiple Western countries with subtle uplifting meanings in Chinese. They named you Eliza and your brother Sebastian, which was considered very unusual among their Chinese American friends who usually went for more traditional names such as Andrew and Jennifer. Your parents have never been afraid to take important risks both symbolic and actual though. Sebastian in simplified chinese: 塞巴斯蒂安 Sebastian in traditional chinese: 塞巴斯蒂安 Elizabeth 以利沙伯 (You can magnify in Chinese) Eliza in simplified chinese: 伊丽莎 Eliza in traditional chinese: 伊麗莎 Meaning of Sebastian characters in chinese: Character Meaning 塞 stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress 巴 greatly desire, anxiously hope 斯 this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle 蒂 peduncle or stem of plants 安 peaceful, tranquil, quiet Saint Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him. Meaning of Eliza characters in chinese: Character Meaning 伊 third person pronoun; he, she, this, that 丽 beautiful, magnificent, elegant 莎 kind of sedge grass, used anciently for raincoats (protector against the elements) Elizabeth is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church on November 5, and in the Orthodox and Anglican traditions on September 5, on the same day with her husband Zacharias/Zechariah. You are a big fan of Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and Frank Chin. You are delighted that Asian Americans are being better represented in Hollywood since Crazy Rich Asians. ❤️ SAHM (born in year of the Tiger/ a toothless Tiger mom but not Asian). |
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Whoops - went back too far. Sebastian and Eliza stories now saturated - so new list is: 1. Luke, Mara, Olivia 2. Henry and Helene 3. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie 4. Claire 5. Peter 6. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah 7. Anya and Margo Will ponder Luke, Mara and Olivia’s back stories … |
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| Sagan. Roast me? |
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Wow, that was amazing. 🥲 |
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1. Luke, Mara, Olivia 2. Henry and Helene 3. Marisa, Mallory and Marnie 4. Claire 5. Peter 6. Lincoln, Nolan, Savannah 7. Anya and Margo 8. Sagan, medium to well done. SAHM 😃 |