Peg Ostrander
Maeve Ostrander
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born Mar 9, 2016 · 10 on Oct 5, 2026
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54 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Feb 21
Grandchildren charm bracelet
One charm for each grandchild - a book (Hannah), a trombone (Owen), a fish (Lucas), a shamrock (Maeve), a bear (Theo), a juniper sprig (June). Six charms. Never appraised.
2016
Feb 26
Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough), before Maeve was born
Mar 9
Maeve Dorothy Ostrander, born this morning in Denver at 6:04 their time. Seven…
…pounds two.
I was in the middle of story hour with Mrs. Kowalski's third grade, reading aloud, with the telephone face down on the cart, where it buzzed twice. I finished the book. I could not tell you now what it was. When they had gone I turned the telephone over, and there she was in a striped hat, with the name…
Mar 10
Maeve Dorothy Ostrander, born yesterday, March 9, 2016, at 6:04 in the morning,…
…Denver time. 7 lb 2 oz.
Her quilt, No. 36: Single Irish Chain. Twenty 10-inch blocks, four by five, no border: 40 x 50. Nine greens on white. Backing is the tiny shamrock print.
Label: "For Maeve Dorothy, from Grandma Peg, 2016. No. 36."
Mar 10
Cherry for Maeve's toy chest, 38 board feet
Mar 26
Home from Denver this afternoon. Maeve is seventeen days old, with a great deal…
…of dark hair and Mom's frown, the one for a badly made bed. I did not say it to anybody. Lucas is two and a half and shouts "BABY" whenever she is asleep.
Jul 5
Family week 2016. Twelve of us. Who slept where:
- North bedroom: David, Julia and Maeve (4 months).
- Back bedroom, twins: Hannah and Owen. Lucas (nearly 3) on the cot between them, which was a mistake; put him with his parents.
- Sofa bed in the main room: Ellen and Mark.
- Tent: Kate and Samir.
Jul 5
The week of the Fourth. Twelve of us. Maeve is four months old and spent the fi…
…reworks asleep on R.'s chest in the green chair. Lucas, nearly three, has learned to say "walleye" and says it to everything that comes out of the water, including Owen.
No loon chicks. A strange male came in May, and the two fought for the better part of a week out past the island, wings going like oars. Bev watche…
Dec 11
Christmas 2016. Hannah (8): size 10, shoe 2. Owen (5 1/2): size 6. Lucas (3): 4…
…T. Maeve (9 months): 12-18 months.
Cards: 58.
Dec 18
Last December at school. The winter concert was Thursday. I have sat through th…
…irty of them on a folding chair by the gym door, in case of nosebleeds.
I have read "A Gentleman in Moscow" twice through, once fast and once properly. A man is sentenced to spend his life in a hotel and makes a whole world of it.
Christmas here this year. Maeve's first; Lucas has asked Santa for "a fish."
2017
Oct 19
Maeve's e-book account at her library
She gave it to me so that I can put books on hold for her from here. Julia knows.
Dec 10
Christmas 2017, here. Ellen's four and David's four. Kate is due at the end of…
…January and may not fly.
Sizes:
- Hannah (9): 10-12, shoe 3.
- Owen (6 1/2): 7. Skates size 1.
- Lucas (4): 5.
- Maeve (21 months): 2T.
Lykke: julekake x2, limpa rye x2, one almond kringle. Ordered November 27.
Dec 25
Gamma Pig! Gamma Pig, up!
Dec 27
Christmas here, with Ellen's four and David's four: ten in the house. Kate is e…
…ight months along in Portland and not allowed on an airplane; she joined us on the laptop at the end of the table. Maeve is twenty-one months old and calls me "Gamma Pig."
R. and I have, for once, read the same book: "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes." He read it for the engineering and I for the story, and we…
2019
Jul 6
The week of the Fourth: thirteen people, one puppy, one pontoon. Maeve is three…
…, and asked me at breakfast whether I was "the same Grandma as last time." I said I was. She looked me over and said, "You got smaller."
Theo is seventeen months old and goes straight for the water every time he is set down. Birdie has learned "sit" from Hannah, "no" from everybody, and how to open the cooler from O…
Dec 15
Christmas 2019, sizes:
- Hannah (11): 14, shoe 6.
- Owen (8 1/2): 10. Skates 3.
- Lucas (6): 7.
- Maeve (3 3/4): 4T. Wants a doctor's kit "with a real shot."
- Theo (nearly 2): 2T.
Lykke: julekake x2, limpa x2. No kringle ordered.
2020
Jul 21
The first time we have had any of them since Christmas. Ellen's four came on th…
…e 11th, after two weeks of seeing nobody and a test apiece, and David drove from Denver with Lucas and Maeve, two days in the car; Julia could not leave her patients. Nine of us. We hugged in the yard.
On Sunday, with the dishes half done, the water stopped. The well pump, eighty feet down. R. had the cover off the…
Dec 6
Christmas 2020: everything by mail. Three boxes, posted December 5.
To Naperville:
- Hannah (12): women's small. A proper journal, bound, and a good pen.
- Owen (9 1/2): 12. A puck bag, and "The Hobbit."
To Denver:
- Lucas (7): 8. Fly-tying kit, beginner's, chosen by Ray.
- Maeve (4 3/4): 5. Three picture books and a library card holder.
To Portland:
- Theo (nearly 3): 3T. Wooden tr…
2021
Nov 25
Thanksgiving, with Ellen's four and all of David's. Maeve is five and reads. Sh…
…e read the place cards aloud, then the label on the cranberry can, then asked for something longer, and I took her up to the shelf in the back bedroom and let her choose. I have decided to send her a book on the first of every month, and told her so, and she wrote it on her hand.
I am on a pill for blood pressure as…
Nov 27
Maeve's December book: "Frog and Toad Are Friends." Paper Birch.
Nov 30
Maeve's December book: Frog and Toad Are Friends
Dec 4
Polarized fishing glasses for Lucas, and a clip-on reading lamp for Maeve
Dec 12
Christmas 2021: six.
- Hannah (13): women's small, shoe 8. A gift card to the bookshop near her.
- Owen (10 1/2): 14. A mouthpiece for the trombone.
- Lucas (8): 8. Polarized fishing glasses.
- Maeve (5 3/4): 6. December's book, and a reading lamp.
- Theo (nearly 4): 4T.
- June (5 months): 6-9 months.
2022
Jul 10
FAMILY WEEK 2022, July 2 to 9. All fourteen of us at once, for the first time.
WHO SLEPT WHERE
- Lake bedroom: Ray and I.
- North bedroom: Kate, Samir, and June (11 months) in the travel crib.
- Back bedroom, the two twins: Ellen and Mark.
- Sofa bed in the main room: David and Julia.
- The porch, four cots: Hannah (13), Owen (11), Lucas (8), Maeve (6).
- Theo (4): the trundle in his parents' ro…
Dec 21
Christmas 2022, here, because of the knee. All fourteen, in shifts: Ellen's fou…
…r the 22nd to the 24th; David's four the 24th to the 27th; Kate's four the 26th to the 28th.
Sizes:
- Hannah (14): women's small, shoe 8 1/2.
- Owen (11 1/2): 14-16. Skates 6.
- Lucas (9): 10.
- Maeve (6 3/4): 7.
- Theo (nearly 5): 5.
- June (17 months): 2T. Her bed quilt is on the frame and will be late.
Nothing w…
Dec 28
Maeve's books, 2022. One on the first of each month; twelve sent.
Jan. - "Mercy Watson to the Rescue"
Feb. - "Owl Moon"
March - "Miss Rumphius"
April - "The Hundred Dresses"
May - "My Father's Dragon"
June - "Ramona the Pest"
July - "Charlotte's Web" (a new copy; mine from the library does not leave this house)
Aug. - "The Mouse and the Motorcycle"
Sept. - "Sarah, Plain and Tall"
Oc…
2023
Jan 31
Maeve's books for February, March and April
Aug 13
Lucas's ten-year quilt: done, and in the post tomorrow for the 21st. No. 49.
Fish. Twenty of them, each a pieced block 12 x 16 inches, swimming in four rows, every other row the opposite way: northerns in greens, walleye in gold and olive, a row of bluegills, and one musky down the left side that is three blocks long. Water is seven different blues. Twin, 68 x 88.
Backing: the trout-stream pr…
Dec 10
Christmas 2023, in Portland, six days. We fly the 22nd. Everything for Napervil…
…le and Denver is posted by the 12th; what goes to Portland must fit two suitcases.
Sizes:
- Hannah (15): women's small. She has stopped eating meat as of October; no beef sticks in that box. A set of good coloured pencils, 72, and paper.
- Owen (12 1/2): men's small. Skates 8.
- Lucas (10): 12. A fillet knife, with…
Dec 30
Maeve's books, 2023. Twelve more.
Jan. - "Pippi Longstocking"
Feb. - "The Tale of Despereaux"
March - "Half Magic"
April - "The Borrowers"
May - "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"
June - "Because of Winn-Dixie"
July - "The Cricket in Times Square"
Aug. - "Matilda"
Sept. - "The Trumpet of the Swan"
Oct. - "Ella Enchanted"
Nov. - "The Lion, the Witch an…
2024
Mar 1
Maeve's books for March, April and May
Dec 15
Christmas 2024, in Denver. We fly out the 21st and home the 28th. Birdie goes t…
…o Naperville on the 20th; Hannah has the feeding card.
Sizes:
- Hannah (16): women's small. Paints, the good ones, from the shop Kate recommended.
- Owen (13 1/2): men's medium.
- Lucas (11): 12-14. An ice-fishing rod.
- Maeve (8 3/4): 10. December's book. Ray is building her a bookcase, cherry, to be delivered in t…
Dec 23
Why did she have to give the dog back? And don't say "because it's a book."
Dec 29
Christmas in Denver, a week, at 5,300 feet, with R. winded on the stairs and de…
…nying it. Lucas is eleven and took his grandfather ice fishing on a reservoir an hour away, with David to drive, and they came back with two trout and a great deal of opinion about Colorado ice. Maeve is eight and has read everything I have sent her, and wanted to know why the girl in last month's book had to give th…
Dec 30
Maeve's books, 2024. Thirty-seven sent in all.
Jan. - "The Secret Garden"
Feb. - "Harriet the Spy"
March - "The Penderwicks"
April - "The Wild Robot"
May - "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"
June - "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
July - "The Phantom Tollbooth"
Aug. - "A Wrinkle in Time"
Sept. - "The Wednesday Wars"
Oct. - "Anne of Green Gables"
N…
2025
Jan 12
Cherry for Maeve's bookcase, 24 board feet
Jan 19
Eleven below this morning, and the furnace has not shut off since Friday. The f…
…eeders were empty by nine: juncos, a red-bellied woodpecker, and twenty-odd house finches behaving like a mob.
R. is in the shop with the space heater, building a bookcase for Maeve, who has run out of shelf.
I am reading "The Frozen River," about a midwife in Maine in 1789 who keeps a diary of every birth and deat…
Jul 9
Family week 2025. Fourteen, and a bed for every one of them.
- Bunkhouse: Hannah (16), Owen (14), Lucas (11), Maeve (9).
- Lake bedroom: us. North bedroom: Kate and Samir, with June on the trundle. Back bedroom: Ellen and Mark. Sofa bed: David and Julia. Porch cot: Theo (7), with the dog.
For the record book: Thursday, July 3, about 7:30 in the morning, off the end of the dock…
Nov 11
Kona cotton for Maeve's ten-year quilt
Dec 14
Christmas 2025, HERE, all fourteen, December 24 to 27.
Beds:
- Ellen and Mark: Ellen's old room. David and Julia: David's. Kate and Samir: the family room, on the sofa bed.
- Hannah: the sewing room, on the trundle.
- Owen and Lucas: air mattresses in the den.
- Maeve, Theo, June: sleeping bags in our room.
Sizes:
- Hannah (17): women's small. A carry-on suitcase.
- Owen…
Dec 27
Christmas here, all fourteen, in this house, for three days, and nobody quarrel…
…ed about anything larger than the last of the kringle.
Hannah is seventeen and has applied to Madison, for nursing, and will hear next month. She would be twelve minutes from this kitchen. I have said nothing to her about that. I said it to R., who said, "She'll come for the laundry."
Maeve, nine, has read every on…
Dec 30
Maeve's books, 2025. Forty-nine sent since December 2021.
Jan. - "The Westing Game"
Feb. - "Tuck Everlasting"
March - "Bridge to Terabithia" (I warned Julia, not Maeve)
April - "The View from Saturday"
May - "Number the Stars"
June - "Holes"
July - "The Graveyard Book"
Aug. - "When You Reach Me"
Sept. - "The Girl Who Drank the Moon"
Oct. - "Brown Girl Dreaming"
Nov. - "The W…
2026
Jan 17
Long-arm quilting, Maeve's ten-year quilt
Kathy Laufenberg. Twin, 70 x 90, edge to edge at 2 cents a square inch, and the thread. · Long-arm quilting, Maeve's ten-year quilt
Jan 25
Maeve's ten-year quilt: bound this afternoon. No. 52.
"Night Sky." Twin, 70 x 90. A navy ground with forty pieced stars in whites, creams and three golds, and stitched in pale thread from star to star, the Big Dipper and Orion as they stood over Denver on the night of March 9, 2016. David worked out the positions.
Backing and binding in plain navy. Quilted by Kathleen L…
Mar 2
Parcel to Denver - Maeve's quilt
Mar 15
Guild show, March 13 and 14. I paid for two entries in January (Maeve's night s…
…ky and Hannah's graduation quilt) and showed neither. Hannah's is still a top; it goes to Kathy for quilting in April. The $20 is the guild's.
198 entries. Best of show: Pat Hering, hand quilted, at 81.
Jeanette Wollin wants entries by February 1 next year.
May 25
Hannah's graduation, yesterday, Naperville, 1:00, outdoors.
- From us: the quilt, and a cheque for $500.00 toward books.
- She starts in Madison on August 28.
- Thank-you note to Mark's mother, who saved us seats in the shade.
Next graduations: Owen 2029, Lucas 2031, Maeve 2034, Theo 2036, June 2039.
Jul 9
They went home yesterday. Fourteen, eight days, and the bunkhouse full.
Hannah is seventeen and off to college in seven weeks. Owen is fifteen and six feet tall and eats standing up. Lucas, twelve, fried the walleye on the Fourth, all of it, at his grandfather's elbow, with R. saying nothing but "now" at intervals. Maeve read on the porch swing. Theo is eight and announces the tree nuts h…
Jul 9
FAMILY WEEK 2026, July 1 to 8. Fourteen people, eight days.
WHO SLEPT WHERE
- Lake bedroom: Ray and I.
- North bedroom: Kate and Samir, with June (5 on the 12th) on the trundle.
- Back bedroom, the twins: Ellen and Mark.
- Sofa bed: David and Julia.
- Bunkhouse: Hannah (17) lower lake side, under the blue quilt; Owen (15) upper lake side, under the green; Lucas (12) and Maeve…
Sep 26
Maeve's October book: The Mysterious Benedict Society
Sep 26
Maeve's November book - in the mail today
Oct 1
Maeve's books, 2026. Fifty-nine sent since December 2021.
Jan. - "A Long Way from Chicago"
Feb. - "Caddie Woodlawn" (a Wisconsin girl, for a Colorado one)
March - "The Incredible Journey"
April - "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry"
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| First name | Maeve |
|---|---|
| Middle name | Dorothy |
| Last name | Ostrander |
| Date of birth | 2016-03-09 |
| Gender | Female |
| Comments | Granddaughter, David and Julia's. A book on the first of every month. |
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q145 How many grandchildren do we have, and who is the oldest? q027 Where was I when each of the grandchildren was born? q036 Make me a list of every book I have written about in my journal. q068 Which quilts have I made for each of the grandchildren? q087 How many quilts have I made altogether? List them.