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Well today is Ethan’s Fish Day at school. His school celebrates children each year individually for displaying what they call “fishyness.” They have a philosophy there called the fish philosophy and its all about caring for others, etc. Anyway, Ethan’s celebration is today and he is pretty excited. Michelle is nice enough that she said she could watch Dylan and Shelby while I go to the school. I’m not sure if Denny will make it or not, but I’ll be there and so will my Mom and Dad.

In other big news I let Ethan walk to school today, kinda. We are the third house down from the school, but I usually drive him or walk with him. Today he really wanted to do it himself. He wanted to ride his bike like the other kids, but we don’t have a chain to lock it up and frankly I don’t think I trust him to be cautious enough to ride his bike there. Anyway, so I walked him to the first house next to the school and let him go the rest of the way by himself. One of the other mothers was about 2 feet in front of him with her triplets taking them to school so I was ok with that. Anyone who knows me knows that I”m a little on the freakish side when it comes to the kids being out of my sight or far enough away that I can’t grab them if I needed to. Anyway so both of us had an exciting morning.

So onto today’s layout. I got one of the EK Success Cutterflys about a week or two ago. I call it the scrapbookers swiss army knife. The thing is packed with tools. I used the rotary cutter to cut the cutter on the piece of printed paper and then stuck it to the cardstock. The line of brads all the way down the side are the mini sprinkles by Queen & Company. I love the way those things look, but the backs are really hard to get apart and those suckers are SHARP. I wounded myself several times. But it sure looks cool, lol. The title is done with American Crafts Thickers. These ones are a foam like texture and puffy. I cut the circles with the new Circle Scissor Plus by EK Success. This one is an improvement over the last edition, but there are still some tweaks that need to be attended to. The little dashes are done with a Sharpie White Paint Pen.

Well that’s all for for now. I need to get the kids ready to hit the road, then off to Ethan’s Starfish Day.

~j