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Happy Monday everyone. Did you have a good weekend?

Mine was mainly overshadowed by the tragic events that happened in Belgium on Friday. Updates on the baby murder all are over the papers and television, and it’s hard not to think of it. I am still very much shocked and I cry every time I read or hear more about it. I can’t help it, ever since I gave birth I am extremely sensitive and emotional when I hear of the cruelties some people do to children… I can’t imagine what I would do if someone would hurt my little girl…

But luckily yesterday we had some distraction. We went swimming with Roxanne. I’m ashamed to admit it, but swimming is something we have not done often enough with her. I’m totally not a water rat myself. Although she loves it, she is still afraid to go head under, and she needs us to hold her constantly when she can’t reach the ground, even though she wears rubber armrings. But yesterday we witnessed a great milestone! After several hours in the pool, she finally dared to ’swim’ all alone! (with her rubber bands and without us holding her) We were so proud of her. We had such a great time with her yesterday. And things will even get better, because I finally managed to get a spot in the weekly swimming courses for small children or city organizes. Starting next week, she and daddy will go swimming every week. I had been trying to get a spot for over a year, so I’m very happy about this.

I promised you I’d be back today with a new kit and a coupon, so here it is. My new XL kit  ‘Cherished Happiness’

It’s jam-packed with goodies: 18 papers, over 50 elements and a complete alpha with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctution and special European characters.

I’m really loving the colors in this kit, and I scrapped 4 pages with it! An absolute record My pages are also available as quickpages:

The top right page is scrapped by my good friend and CT member Jen, aka chookie in the galleries, and the other 4 by me.

And here is some more inspiration for you:

And here is a little coupon:

I have one more thing to show you. Madame Mim is guest designer at Scrapartist this month, and she has released a beautiful new kit called Best Friends Forever

Here is my page with it:

On the photo are my dd and my cousin’s nephew on their first play date. Those two are quite something together. They spent the entire afternoon screaming, laughing, making funny faces and giggling, both dressed as princesses. Oh, and MOONING. ROFL. They both seem to have a passion for that, haha.

Have a great week!