Our spunky, persistent Olivia turned 16 on Monday. The last year, she has matured into a hard-working, hilarious young lady who refuses to quit. Chemistry and Pre-Calculus are giving her a challenge one month into her junior year, but she is like a tenacious, but beautiful, bulldog who just won't give up.
Olivia is a strong Enneagram Three:
Threes are often successful and well liked because, of all the types, they most believe in themselves and in developing their talents and capacities. Threes act as living “role models” and paragons because of their extraordinary embodiment of socially valued qualities. Healthy Threes know that they are worth the effort it takes to be “the best that they can be.” Their success at doing so inspires others to invest in their own self-development.
She made her own birthday cake, what I grew up calling a "sock-it-to-me cake" but minus the cake mix, using some of the precious pecans we brought from America.
We celebrated in small but sweet ways all day long.
And I don't know any other sixteen-year-old who asked for weights for her birthday.
The best part of the day for me was the video chat with all six of us, the whole "Meat Cheato" (that's "Team Choate" scrambled, and first showed up in magnetic letters on our fridge in the village) together on one screen.
But I also loved watching our SITAG family gather round Olivia to pray blessings over her before we enjoyed cake and ice cream and lots of laughter.
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So glad to have the computer again so that I can catch up with all that I have missed on the blog. I love this "Sweet Sixteen" more than she will know for a long time.
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