My name is
Clover Charlotte Lawliet. I was a seventeen year old whose careless party lifestyle led me to becoming pregnant after a drunken one-night stand. After searching for awhile I finally tracked down the father, who proceeds to tell me that he is not interested in me or the baby. Despite being alone I decide to keep the baby.
As if that wasnt enough I find out at my first scan that I was expecting twin
girls. Oh dear lord.
I was really panicked until I met this guy,
Jesse Keith Englement. Even though he is only nineteen years old he offered to be my daughters substitute father. He has a lot of younger siblings who he is great with so I think it would be a good idea to accept.
I decided to name the girls
Alexandra and
Danielle. Luckily, Jesse liked these names too.
So, two years after I met Jesse we got married. I was super excited to find out that I expecting our first biological child together! Three babies is a lot for a nineteen and twenty one year old, but I thought we could handle it.
Five however? That was a little much. But it was going to happen as I was having triplets this time.
One boy and two girls.
Alexandra loved Beauty and the Beast and begged we name one of her sisters
Belle. Danielle wanted the other sister to be named
Aurora after her favorite movie, Sleeping Beauty. Our first son, Jesse decided to name
Basil, sticking with the apparent Disney theme.
I picked the middle names
Aurora Bliss, Belle Felicity, and Basil Patrick. (After Patrick, from FallOut Boy
How I love that band.)
As soon as the triplets went off to Kindergarten I got lazy with the pill and found myself pregnant again. Oh, how I prayed for no more triplets. I was lucky, the scan showed only one baby. A little girl.
My grandmother
Elizabeth died as I was carrying the baby. Alex and Dani (Nicknames they picked up in preschool a few years back) begged me to name the baby after her. So I decided on
Eliza and Basil told me to name her Harley Quinn after the character on his Batman shows. I decided I liked it enough to name my new daughter
Eliza Quinn.
A month after my fantastic three turned six years old the new addition to our family was born.
Of course, someone as fertile as me cannot stop after six children
Noooo. I become pregnant again with a little
boy after only one year. Excited for his second son, Jesse decides om the name
Asher Finn for his second son. All the children love the name.
Of course, with seven children you can expect conflicts and Eliza hits the terrible twos and starts biting and pulling her little brothers hair. When she finds that gets her attention she starts biting too. I get overwhelmed and my wonderful twins offer to stay home from school and help me. While I am grateful, I find it strange. Both Jesse and I loved school. I worried they were taking place after their biological father when I find they are failing almost every class. I ask what was wrong, worried that sharing my attention with five other kids was causing them to act out when they explain it was because of bullying. I decide to home-school them, and their grades in school drastically improve and within six months the fighting between Eliza and Asher stops completely, due to the constant attention they receive. I am very proud of my oldest girls.
Our beautiful family now contains me (Clover) and Jessie and our children; Alex, Dani, Belle, Aurora, Basil, Eliza, and Asher.
As six years pass Eliza and Asher are inseparable. They even had trouble separating for their classes (and they are in separate grades!) so I home-school them as I did with Alex and Dani. My young ones are easy though, because I have five teenagers now. (And I am only 34!) It isnt easy, but I feel that Jesse and I are handling this feat pretty well. Seeing as I still have a year before birth defects need to be a huge worry of mine (statistically), we decide for another child. The twins and triplets pretty much care for themselves anyways. Luckily, but not surprisingly, we conceive fast and expect yet another boy. We name him
Warren Reilly.
As I am bathing Warren a year later I find that I am going to be a grandma, as Belle is now pregnant. I sighed and asked her what had happened?! She was only fifteen years old. Looking back, this is what I had written in my journal
Well, Mama
I wanted a big family like we have and I know that you had to have started young. Alex and Dani were made when you were only seventeen! I poked holes in the condoms Dad gave me, so Damien [Her boyfriend]
would think it was an accident. That was probably wrong, but
I still regret nothing, is what Belle tells me. I sigh. I should have expected it. Statically children of teen parents end up having children in their teen years themselves. I asked my little Belle if Damien was going to stay, and of course she said yes. They always assume yes. I knew I had to let her do what she wanted, but I knew multiples were genetic, and I had them twice! If Damien decides to leave her, I fear she wont be as lucky as I was with Jess. I asked her if she knew about multiples being hereditary and she looked at me kind of worried. I suppose we will need to look at the scan
And I was right
Not twins, not triplets, but
quadruplets. Oh, Damien was not pleased. He left as soon as the syllable quad came from her mouth. But, Belle has loving parents and many supportive siblings (though Alex and Dani are in college now).
At their birth she names the children after her favorite actors;
Mila and Jessica after Mila Kuniz and Jessica Alba, and
Johnny and Michael after Johnny Depp and Michael Cera. Her labor, I dont even want to describe
26 hours
a few weeks early. But its common to be early with multiples
I kept telling her that. The doctor determined that four children would be rough on a sixteen year old so they did a c-section. My poor Belle. But her children are so lovely.
Valentines Day and my little Dani goes into labor with her little
girl. Her husband, Daniel (go figure) is holding her petite hand as she pushes. Once her little miracle is born they announce the birth of my little granddaughter,
Alice Eva. She couldnt be more beautiful, and my daughter couldnt either.
Three years later I hear from Trent and Sarah, who tell me they lost my address when they moved. I laugh, as the last time we spoke I was pregnant with Warren! They wrote me to ask how me and all my loads of children were doing and I laughed. I wrote a lengthy response, explaining how each child is doing.
Alex: Alex and her husband have a little
girl named
Ciera.
Dani: Is raising Alice, and hoping to have another soon
no luck yet.
Belle:n Doing excellent with her quads, who are excelling in school.
Aurora: Is working on her masters degree.
Basil: Is working as a game designer in California, not doing so well on the dating circuit. (My nerdy son
)
Eliza: Is preparing for her graduation from high school! A few more months.
Asher: Is researching universities to start applying to next year.
Warren: Is doing very well in the fourth grade.
Two years later Dani gave birth to a
a set of twins and named them
Charlotte Maye after me and
Nathan Bradley after Daniels father. And Asher is expecting
twins with his new wife, Sydney, although they have no yet picked out names. They only know they are
little girls.
its so sad to see your baby go off to fight in the services, but im so proud of him. Stuart also says it might do him some good, and get him to respect others and be grateful for what he has. I hope hes right!
