What do a Mouse and a Crayfish have in common?

Not much.  Except they can both can create a snowball effect.  I based this layout on the book If You Give A Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff.  If you are not familiar with the book,  it is about the series of events that happen if you give a mouse a cookie; he will need a glass of milk, then a straw, etc.  This snowball effect in our house all started with a crayfish.

The journaling reads: “If you give your kid a crayfish, he will want to go to the pet store to buy it some anacharis to eat. When you are at the pet store, your other kid will beg for a hermit crab. So you buy him a hermit crab and habitat. You then find out the hermit crab needs to have friends. And the crayfish dies. So you go back to the pet store to get another hermit crab for the first kid whose crayfish died. And a bigger habitat.

Then you find out that hermit crabs need a heat source. So you go back to the pet store. And your third kid begs for her own hermit crab. So you get another one….”

I used a sketch from “Sketches for Scrapbooking, volume 5”.