This is for Last Scrapper Standing - Round one. The challenge is to use 8 transparent items on your page.

8 transparencies:
I cut three circles of 5,4, and 2.5 inches.
I stitched the first one, and put a rubon across the seam of the other two, connected all three with 3 clear buttons and wrote i love you, a word on each layer. I tried to show the detail on the bottom so you could see it upclose.

So my 8 items are:
3 circles
3 buttons
1 more circle where the date is written
1 on top of the photo by My Mind's Eye

Journaling Reads:

Today I came home early from work, so I was able to take you to MyGym’s open playtime. Normally, you’re in a funky mood and play for a short while and then get bored. But today, we had a blast. We played, we laughed, and then we laughed some more. At one point, you kept running over to me and knocking me over. And then you ran over and gave me a big hug and said,

“I love you.”

I had a hard pregnancy. I threw up eight times a day for six months. I was so nauseous that I worked in bed the whole time. When you were born, you refused to sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time, even when you were six months old. I still haven’t lost the weight I gained during the pregnancy. You regularly make messes all over the house and sometimes I find a half-eaten apple weeks later, hidden behind some furniture or appliance. There are many moments in the day when you try my patience. But all of these hard times are for this one moment. For the tight hug. For the tiny kiss. And for those three little words, uttered unprompted. They make everything worthwhile.

I love you, too, my son. I love you with all my heart.