Ellie Mae

Ellie, and I agree that today is a sleeting, snowing, homework-doing, hot chocolate-drinking, chillaxing kind of day. 

This post is also a little introduction to Ellie Mae, my four-year-old, long-haired mini dachshund. We adopted her about 3 and a half years ago on a really rainy, cool, spring day.

 On the day we adopted her I had just done a kid-athalon (a mini triathlon for kids) and was once again hit with the fact that I am not a very athletic person. I was a little disappointed at the time. We stopped at Walmart on the way home. As we pulled into the parking lot we saw a little Volkswagen Bug with a cardboard sign stating "Mini Dachshunds for sale". My dad, who a few weeks before had learned he loved our cousins dachshund, decided that we should stop and look at the puppies while my mom went into the store. Just before my mom got out of the car to brave the rain that stood between her and the store my dad, gripping the steering wheel and staring straight forward deep in thought, turned towards her and cooly says "I think the girls and I are going to go look at those puppies". My mom turned and said "You can't just take the girls to look at puppies! If you do that we'll go home with a dog!".  At this statement my heart skipped a beat, I had wanted a dog for years. We stopped, looked, and our hearts melted. My little sister and I liked the little brown girl almost immediately. My mom came out of Walmart and my dad somehow convinced her that she needed to see the puppy. We have now spent the past three years completely loving the little blessing God gave us when He gave us this little fluff ball. 

A few facts you need to know about Ellie

1. She likes chopped veggies, just as well as any other human food.

2. She is a great listener 

3. She doesn't like being wet, or too clean.

4. She really likes cats, as friends, not as food.

5. She is generally scared of tall men but loves them after about 15 minutes of getting to know them.

6. She is really cute... (I couldn't help but put that last one in)