Jade Kaitlyn Edwards
Without Prejudice
I came back from QLD to be with Alena, having her first baby, well the way it went was, Debbie: "Come home your daughter needs you, she's having her first baby" Me: No Debbie: "Why?" Me: "I'm having a ball up here," and I was. No kids as Yvette and Simon had returned to Melbourne. I was in a great double story unit in Bundall with other singles all around, I was working full time at Peacock Films as a Credit Officer and all day Saturday I worked at the Markets at Carrara, selling perfume sets for cash. My neighbour Kathy sold necklaces, for the same owner.I had been up there for two years. And on Saturday nights Kathy and I went to The Avenue or Melbas in Surfers, danced our little cotton socks off and went home in a Pedi Cab, Murray, our neighbour owned one, riding us home, every time. Debbie: "I don't give a ****, your daughter need you, she can't do it on her own." It was August and Alena was due to give birth November. So on the 31st August I returned home to Melbourne, moved to Deb and Andrews unit and within the week was sharing a house in Glen Waverley with Frankie boy from Supagas and Mara, my foster daughter aged 17. And duly Jade Kaitlyn Edwards made it into the world on her due date, 16th November. We were at Kyle's 5th Birthday at McDonalds opposite the Glen and Frank received a call from Alena. She was at work and her waters had broken. Alena worked for her Dad then as had all the girls. She did pays, banking, reception and had gone to the loo at 5pm, and Jade was ready to be born. So Frank ran me home to get my "Labour ward outfit" Panadol, flat shoes, cool clean loose clothing. And then to hospital, he was so obliging, Frank. We ended up being there hours, not much happening, so Dean and I walked home to their house, slept a little and walked back to the hospital. Alena had rung and she was crying. Alena had had five scans and she was having a boy, that was definite. So we helped her through the birth and in the end there was a lot of us in the room. Dean's mum, Yvette and I, Dean, mid wives. Yvette and I stood back thinking well we knew what she was having and then a voice said "It's a girl" "Can't be a girl", I said "She's having a boy." The nurse looked at me like I had grown horns out of my head. "It's a boy", she repeated.And she should know as we were out of the way Yvette and I looked at each other, dumbfounded. "A GIRL?????" And sure enough Jade was a girl. Alena had wanted Jade as a name as it was her sisters second name. And she had become really distressed about it after she was told she was having a boy and thought about spelling it Jayd, but it just didn't sit right, So the name was fine at last and so was the incredibly pretty baby, Jade Kaitlyn. Jade had to have been the most stunning baby I had ever seen and I had seen a few. She had a roses and cream complexion, rosebud mouth, big blue eyes and blonde wispy hair. She looked like an Anne Geddes baby, perfect, a sleeping Angel. We were delighted and couldn't get enough of her. And as she grew she became even more beautiful, all smiles for anyone. That is mainly because of my son in law, He is a pakheeya, or white Maori, born to a full blood Father and a Red Headed European Mother. So Dean looks just like an Aussie but has Maori blood, his twin younger brothers, Mark and Paul, dark. And the Maori Culture is that "baby" is socialised. The baby belongs to everyone as they come in, and they hold and kiss the baby. So that if ever anything happened to the Mother, the baby will accept others. So everytime visitors would come around Jade would hold out her arms and run to them, smiling, beaming. Andrew Hood my other son in law fell in love with Jade and she was the reason behind Ashleigh Hood, being born. Andrew longing to be a Dad and if he was going to get one of these all the better, And he and Deb have two girls, now, and he is one happy man. She grew into a delightful happy, chatty little girl and one day when my Sister Jackie was down from Qld, we took the little pink and white princess into David Jones in the city.She was all dressed up in a pretty dress and tiny shoes, she was so excited and as Jackie and I tested make up. we heard a little voice singing. We turned around and there was Jade singing on a microphone, warbling "Barbie Girl". A microphone she had swiped from a make up demonstrator, who kept trying to get it back but Jade was not giving it up until she had finished. The red faced demonstrator glaring at Jackie and I, as we watched Jade, and we gave her a nice round of Applause and so did some others. She was good, really good. And Jade was on fire for hours after, lit up. And when Mum and Dad were married, she was the flower girl, Neville and I took her home to our house and he asked her how she had enjoyed being a flower girl and she opened up a stream of consciousness that lasted half an hour. She was like,
"And then Mummy and Daddy kissed and it was beautiful and Mum looked so pretty and I have this pretty dress, see (Twirl) and on and on. Neville listened politely for ages and then,
"Is she always like this??"
Nev had no children, didn't want them but adored Jade, and we took her out after that to the Marine for dinner, to the soccer and to the Movies, Kyle too. Seeing Toy Story (his pick) and although he had no frame of reference to kids, he tried really hard, occasionally patting Jade on the head, awkwardly. So Jade sang, twirled and one night she and her little sisters sang "Everytime" By Britney Spears, in perfect 3 part harmony with the Radio and we were stunned, clear, innocent voices rising and I thought, about Jade, she's really good, like My Sister.
And now she is almost 17, an A grade student, works with handicapped kids one day a week as Job experience, works at Maccas part time for the last two years and one night last month she told me she has an audition with The Voice. and right then and there sang Adele's, "Rolling In The Deep" and rhianna's "Rehab". And all I could think was, finally I got a musical one! And I rang Jackie, delighted, and she suggested Jade join a local band as a Singer for the experience, as that was what she had done.
Love Janette
I came back from QLD to be with Alena, having her first baby, well the way it went was, Debbie: "Come home your daughter needs you, she's having her first baby" Me: No Debbie: "Why?" Me: "I'm having a ball up here," and I was. No kids as Yvette and Simon had returned to Melbourne. I was in a great double story unit in Bundall with other singles all around, I was working full time at Peacock Films as a Credit Officer and all day Saturday I worked at the Markets at Carrara, selling perfume sets for cash. My neighbour Kathy sold necklaces, for the same owner.I had been up there for two years. And on Saturday nights Kathy and I went to The Avenue or Melbas in Surfers, danced our little cotton socks off and went home in a Pedi Cab, Murray, our neighbour owned one, riding us home, every time. Debbie: "I don't give a ****, your daughter need you, she can't do it on her own." It was August and Alena was due to give birth November. So on the 31st August I returned home to Melbourne, moved to Deb and Andrews unit and within the week was sharing a house in Glen Waverley with Frankie boy from Supagas and Mara, my foster daughter aged 17. And duly Jade Kaitlyn Edwards made it into the world on her due date, 16th November. We were at Kyle's 5th Birthday at McDonalds opposite the Glen and Frank received a call from Alena. She was at work and her waters had broken. Alena worked for her Dad then as had all the girls. She did pays, banking, reception and had gone to the loo at 5pm, and Jade was ready to be born. So Frank ran me home to get my "Labour ward outfit" Panadol, flat shoes, cool clean loose clothing. And then to hospital, he was so obliging, Frank. We ended up being there hours, not much happening, so Dean and I walked home to their house, slept a little and walked back to the hospital. Alena had rung and she was crying. Alena had had five scans and she was having a boy, that was definite. So we helped her through the birth and in the end there was a lot of us in the room. Dean's mum, Yvette and I, Dean, mid wives. Yvette and I stood back thinking well we knew what she was having and then a voice said "It's a girl" "Can't be a girl", I said "She's having a boy." The nurse looked at me like I had grown horns out of my head. "It's a boy", she repeated.And she should know as we were out of the way Yvette and I looked at each other, dumbfounded. "A GIRL?????" And sure enough Jade was a girl. Alena had wanted Jade as a name as it was her sisters second name. And she had become really distressed about it after she was told she was having a boy and thought about spelling it Jayd, but it just didn't sit right, So the name was fine at last and so was the incredibly pretty baby, Jade Kaitlyn. Jade had to have been the most stunning baby I had ever seen and I had seen a few. She had a roses and cream complexion, rosebud mouth, big blue eyes and blonde wispy hair. She looked like an Anne Geddes baby, perfect, a sleeping Angel. We were delighted and couldn't get enough of her. And as she grew she became even more beautiful, all smiles for anyone. That is mainly because of my son in law, He is a pakheeya, or white Maori, born to a full blood Father and a Red Headed European Mother. So Dean looks just like an Aussie but has Maori blood, his twin younger brothers, Mark and Paul, dark. And the Maori Culture is that "baby" is socialised. The baby belongs to everyone as they come in, and they hold and kiss the baby. So that if ever anything happened to the Mother, the baby will accept others. So everytime visitors would come around Jade would hold out her arms and run to them, smiling, beaming. Andrew Hood my other son in law fell in love with Jade and she was the reason behind Ashleigh Hood, being born. Andrew longing to be a Dad and if he was going to get one of these all the better, And he and Deb have two girls, now, and he is one happy man. She grew into a delightful happy, chatty little girl and one day when my Sister Jackie was down from Qld, we took the little pink and white princess into David Jones in the city.She was all dressed up in a pretty dress and tiny shoes, she was so excited and as Jackie and I tested make up. we heard a little voice singing. We turned around and there was Jade singing on a microphone, warbling "Barbie Girl". A microphone she had swiped from a make up demonstrator, who kept trying to get it back but Jade was not giving it up until she had finished. The red faced demonstrator glaring at Jackie and I, as we watched Jade, and we gave her a nice round of Applause and so did some others. She was good, really good. And Jade was on fire for hours after, lit up. And when Mum and Dad were married, she was the flower girl, Neville and I took her home to our house and he asked her how she had enjoyed being a flower girl and she opened up a stream of consciousness that lasted half an hour. She was like,
"And then Mummy and Daddy kissed and it was beautiful and Mum looked so pretty and I have this pretty dress, see (Twirl) and on and on. Neville listened politely for ages and then,
"Is she always like this??"
Nev had no children, didn't want them but adored Jade, and we took her out after that to the Marine for dinner, to the soccer and to the Movies, Kyle too. Seeing Toy Story (his pick) and although he had no frame of reference to kids, he tried really hard, occasionally patting Jade on the head, awkwardly. So Jade sang, twirled and one night she and her little sisters sang "Everytime" By Britney Spears, in perfect 3 part harmony with the Radio and we were stunned, clear, innocent voices rising and I thought, about Jade, she's really good, like My Sister.
And now she is almost 17, an A grade student, works with handicapped kids one day a week as Job experience, works at Maccas part time for the last two years and one night last month she told me she has an audition with The Voice. and right then and there sang Adele's, "Rolling In The Deep" and rhianna's "Rehab". And all I could think was, finally I got a musical one! And I rang Jackie, delighted, and she suggested Jade join a local band as a Singer for the experience, as that was what she had done.
Love Janette
