http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/My 8 year old just started writing poems. I thought it would be fun to share them.... So simple, yet so profound. Write on, Sweet Elizabeth! Hmmm...I find that in sharing her poetry and writings, I am also using this blog to share about HER. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/635889Ellie felt left out tonight. The teenagers and their friends wanted to play a game without the little ones. My son didn't care. He moaned and groaned for a few minutes and then got caught up in his Playstation games. Ellie, on the other hand, cried and sobbed. You know, those pathetic sobs when...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/634327Ok, I haven't posted here since we got the idea to make Ellie into a Crayola box for Halloween. Well, here is a picture of her in her costume. I think she is the cutest box of crayons ever!!!!http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/631025Well, finally Ellie has decided what she wants to be for Halloween (we call it Harvest Fest). She was wanting to be a pop can, but we decided that it might be a bit stifling and hard for her to move around if she was all rolled up in poster board and aluminum foil. Thus, we decided we needed to...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/629619When Ellie was a newborn, she would pull at her eyelashes, and her hair. Painfully. I thought it was something she would outgrow. But as it turned out, it was a warning sign of her OCDs and she ended up with many more. I've noticed, though, over the past few weeks, that she seems to be...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/628914Ellie's OCD's seem so much better lately. Maybe it is from the calming down of our schedules, maybe it is because she is learning to deal with them better, maybe its just that she is getting older and growing out of them. Whatever the case may be, I am so relieved....for her and for us She's been...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/627290Ellie has started writing in her journal again, now that school has started. There's just something magical about Fall and School that invites writing into our lives. She sits at the dining room table and writes entries and draws pictures to go with them. Today she drew the dentist's office where...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/626977Elizabeth (Ellie) Mary is being baptized today. I get goosebumps as I write the words. She made a commitment to Jesus Christ four years ago and she now wants to make that commitment publicly known. There is one other person getting baptized with her....an adult from our church. The event will...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/626601What a full, full day for Ellie. I am so happy when she gets to play with friends...just a day in the sun, on bikes, rollerblades, swings. Most of her friends are incredibly busy with gymnastic competitions, swim lessons etc...Ellie really prefers to be home playing. And I think most of her...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/625567We got a new puppy a couple of months ago and today we took him for his first haircut. When I brought him home, Ellie said "This dog looks scary. We should get rid of him." I have spent the last few hours trying to convince her that he really IS the same dog!!http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/RASSE370/625181Ellie has decided to take on making crafts. She really is quite creative and just made herself a decorative frog frame. She got out everything she needed...pipe cleaners, stock paper, some cardboard, markers, glue etc....I didn't even know she was doing it until I came downstairs and found her...