{"id":2111,"date":"2009-08-05T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2009-08-05T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T14:50:45","slug":"happy-5th-8th-birthday-elise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2009\/08\/05\/happy-5th-8th-birthday-elise\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 5th-8th Birthday, Elise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it took me forever to complete. I&#8217;m trying not to hyperfocus on that. Trying, but often failing. So I&#8217;ll tell the whole story again to distract me.<\/p>\n<p>When our daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2001\/07\/elises-birth-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elise was born (still) in 2001<\/a>, I was so out-of-my-mind overwhelmed that I didn&#8217;t bring any clothes for her to the hospital. The gentle and firm OB nurses found a little dress in their &#8220;drawer&#8221; &#8212; a dress that some lady in Greenville county had smocked for her. I was so thankful and touched.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate her birthday every year, I decided to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2004\/07\/happy-3rd-birthday-elise\/\" target=\"_blank\">pay<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2005\/07\/112241726073937862\/\" target=\"_blank\">it-forward<\/a>&#8221; by smocking another dress for another little girl whose first day of birth was in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>On Elise&#8217;s fifth birthday, I was ready to do something a little different. I wanted to make a party dress for a little 5-year-old girl. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2008\/02\/ebenezer-2006-a-gavin-is-born\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin was brand new<\/a>, and I was overwhelmed. I didn&#8217;t finish it.<\/p>\n<p>And then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/ebenezers\/\" target=\"_blank\">the whole BJU thing happened<\/a>, and I was out-of-my-skull overwhelmed again (I&#8217;m sensing another theme here!).<\/p>\n<p>But I just finished it. Last night! So I now just need to find a little size-6 girl who wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have a happy little dress!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Happy Birthday, Elise! 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