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    An Eager Child: Growing up in Norway
    An Eager Child: Growing up in Norway
    An Eager Child: Growing up in Norway
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    An Eager Child: Growing up in Norway

    By Elva Hurst and Betty F. Engh Pettersen

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    Even her Mama asks, "Where does Ovidie get these ideas?" We can ask that, too, of this fine-spirited, industrious youngster growing up in an obscure mountain area of Norway in the late 1800s, on a centuries-old farm, with a seemingly unchanging centuries old lifestyle.



    For Ovidies hard-working parents, who have already raised three now-grown children, life is sufficient and good. So, whats there to change?



    They are untiring as they provide for the family in a faith-based, self-contained environment. Theirs is a caring home, a home where everyone has a role and a goal. Ovidie is the youngest, a strong-willed and thoroughly adored child; she has her role and fulfills it with diligence. And, yes, indeed, she has a goal, too, although its her secret.



    Delightful to read and highly illustrated, this storybook is written as Ovidie livedsimply but with purpose. Enjoy the stories of Ovidies growing up eager, and let messages from Ovidies journey of life-lessons learned on the farm emerge from between the lines for reflection. Ponder the wonder of how we are influenced by the lives and decisions of our forbearers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMay 7, 2012
    ISBN9781449742973
    An Eager Child: Growing up in Norway
    Author

    Elva Hurst

    BETTY F. ENGH PETTERSEN is a retired social worker who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Whereas formal writing has been a constant companion and one she has not minded having around through career, church life, with community groups, and even with family, this is her first published work.   ILLUSTRATOR BIOGRAPHY   Elva Hurst, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is the author and illustrator of the Farm Life Series, Wooley the Lamb, and other books depicting life growing up in the Old Order Mennonite tradition. With her husband and four children, she operates Barnyard Art Studio and Gallery on the family farm, and is well-known in the area for her inspirational Chalk Talk presentations.

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      Book preview

      An Eager Child - Elva Hurst

      title.jpg

      The childhood story of Vida Engh

      born: Ovidie Hagen

      Elverum, Norway

      1889

      Betty F. Engh Pettersen

      Illustrated by Elva Hurst

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      Copyright © 2012 Betty F. Engh Pettersen.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-4296-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-4297-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012904656

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

      www.westbowpress.com

      1-(866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      WestBow Press rev. date: 5/02/2012

      Contents

      Preface

      Forward

      Country House

      Family

      Family And Farm Names

      New Baby Girl

      Learning To Bake

      Skis for Ovidie

      Bows and Collars and

      Sunday Clothes

      Mama’s Mission

      Papa’s Work

      Dressmaker

      Secret Shared

      Shoemakers shoes

      School

      Bjarne’s Accordian

      Mama sews on Sunday

      Up to the Hytte

      To the little Sommer Høset

      (Summer House)

      Sverre’s Accordian

      Now

      Confirmation

      Christmas

      Aksel’s Plan

      Changes

      Mama’s Cow

      Mama is ready

      Leaving Home

      Afterward

      Afterward

      Mother

      An Eager Child

      Growing up in Norway

      Only known child photograph of Ovidie

      01.JPG

      Eager

      Defined

      FEELING OR SHOWING KEEN DESIRE; IMPATIENT OR ANXIOUS TO DO

      OR GET; ARDENT; SHARP; KEEN;- - - - - IMPLIES DEEP INTEREST 

      AND A SPIRITED READINESS TO ACHIEVE SOMETHING

      Preface

      June 1989

      From the original Memoir, Ovidie, written for the

      Celebration of

      Mother’s 100th birthday

      We have set forth a simple childhood story of our mother’s growing up in Norway. She was a country girl, and her nurturing place was on a small isolated farm where for generations her family had maintained what can only be described as a ‘self-sufficient, self-contained lifestyle’.

      Mother shared precious little about her childhood. She was faith based, a private person by nature and stayed generally attentive to the present-breakfast, lunch and dinner, the mail, news and weather, sewing, knitting, mending, and keeping her life structured and in good order. She was not given to nostagia, reviewing past hurts and joys, or to sentimentality. She was not prone to look back- - - - -until she was nearing her 100th birthday celebration.

      Three pictures emerged from safekeeping and she was elated! The pictures were from her childhood in

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