For those of you the know my family personally, you know that my two boys are total opposites. Each of them have different interests, and wants. Dylan is more into all things physical and I’m sure will be the one playing football in school while Ethan is at a Science Olympiad meeting or something. Ethan in pretty moody, like me, and Dylan is a ball of energy like Denny. Ethan is into books, and Dylan would rather be outside playing in the mud. Really, completely different children. So all that being said you can imagine that getting Ethan to ride a bike independently has been an issue.

Ethan was totally capable of riding the bike, just not real into the practicing part and would really rather ride his little Corvette around than actually ride the bike. Mind you I was all about him getting the Corvette AFTER he learned to ride the bike, but, well, Denny went ahead and did it with some of his “side job” money and what could I do? Anyway to just the other day I finally convinced Ethan to take the training wheels off. My mom had been taking him to practice a lot and Ethan was beyond ready, just nervous about it. So lets put it this way, I’ve been crabby and basically told him we were taking the training wheels off, so get over it. So he got on and right off the bat rode the bike down the driveway. It all happened so quick that I missed the first moments, seriously.

Now Ethan is geeked that he doesn’t need the training wheels anymore and he called everyone to tell them the news when we came in. Then after all his celebrating he THANKED ME for making him do it, and then told me… brace yourself… that I WAS RIGHT! Whatcha think about that?

I did some scrappin this week. Not much, but some. I’m not all that into it the last two weeks I’d say so everything is very linear and simple. I like linear and I like simple, but these are borderline unfinished with no effort involved. I need to do something to take care of my funky mood. It is totally something I can control, just that I’ve opted not to do anything about for awhile now. Hopefully once school starts I’ll get back into the swing of things.

I did get my Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L diploma in the mail the other day and my “Scrapbook Approved” pin to place on my much loved apron that I wear during class. Denny thinks I should frame it, lol. He even took the time to suggest a spot on the wall for it. The man really gets into this scrapbooking stuff more than I think he would like to admit. He really is a good guy and very supportive of all my efforts. I’ll be prepping 336 cards over the weekend for class on Tuesday, so we’ll see how he feels about it come Monday night when I have him stuffing envelopes. On that note I have 2 seats open if anyone wants them at the last minute.

I have a couple loads of laundry calling my name, so I’m off. Have a great Friday!!

~j

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