Well I’m pleased to say that Denny took the pigeon out of its cage yesterday evening and according to him the bird “over powered” him and flew off. I assume it flew back home to its original owner and trainer. No bird = happy Jen. I do feel bad for Dylan though. He really liked the goofy thing and wanted desperately to keep it. When he told me that “Whitey flew away” his little chin was quivering and he had the tears welling up. My non-mommy voice in my head said, “bummer your sad, but I’m glad that damn bird is gone” and then I spit out my best impression of sadness and compassion I could muster up. So I said, “I know you are sad Dilly, but now Whitey can fly home to be with his friends.” Still bummed out, he went back out to mope about it. Still, I’m glad the bird in gone, and in a couple weeks Dilly will have forgotten about it. I think.

It’s the last day of school! Nice. I’m looking forward to more time to myself in the morning and the ablility to sleep if I am so inclined. Yippee. I got out of bed at 3am today. Again I couldn’t sleep. I hope thatgets a little better cuz like I said I may have the chance to sleep in and who wants to miss that!!

I scrapped this morning while I was up. Finished up my second layout for the DT contest at thescrapbookstand.com. I wish I could share it with you but it needs to stay a secret until the reveal the new members. That should be next week I think. I can’t stand the waiting!!! Anyway, I used some S.E.I. paper that I got at a S.E.I. party at one of the CHA shows. I’m not even sure which ones. I have the paper packs they hand out piled here. I’m not usually a big fan of their paper and I’ve never been. But the prints from the Such A Boy line really worked with the photos I was using.

Ethan has his school party here tomorrow. So far the weather is supposed to be great - 74 degrees and sunny. Hopefully that hold true. Living in Michigan means dealing with weather that bounces around on a daily basis. Today we are expecting scattered storms and wind. The inflatable people at Wacky Zone said they could deliver all our items today but I don’t know how that works with the weather. I have to admit I”m excited for it to come. It will give Shelby a chance to play before all the bigger kids get in there.

We had a local golf club building burn down completely here yesterday. It’s right down the street from us. I started burning at 2:30pm and they were still working to put it out at 6:30pm (which was the last time I looked). The building was a historical one (built in 1910) and unfortunately it was a total loss. The had fire departments from five cities helping to contain the blaze. Those flames were like nothing I had ever seen before. The good news is that no one was hurt and it was only that one building (the clubhouse) and didn’t hit the lockers or sports shop. Still sad just the same.

Ok I’m off. I want to catch some of the news before I have to wake the kids! Have a great day!

~j