The Kassel Family Project Life 365

It was “no picture Thursday” apparently.

I never really noticed until recently how my weekday mornings always go. I am up by 5:30 and in the kitchen. First, I make myself a cup of coffee and then I update the checkbook and pay any bills. After that, I typically check Facebook and local news sites followed by updating my blog.

John gets up about 6:15 and eats breakfast. Then, he gets ready for school and we empty the dishwasher.

Once the dishwasher is empty, I ask John if he has everything he needs for school (I do that probably three times every morning), and then he heads to the bus stop at 6:50.

I prepare my breakfast and lunch, and reload the dishwasher. Then, I drink the last of my coffee while I wait for the bus to pick up John. Laura usually wanders down during this time and I talk to her for a few minutes. Then, it is time for me to shower and head to work. It is the weekday morning routine.

This is another one of my favorites from this past weekend’s picture session with the kids, and this picture is the main on our 2021 Christmas card.

I had some fun trying different edits. I really like it as a black-and-white picture.

I also tried the vignette. I do not like this quite as much, but it does focus the picture on the kids more.

The original is still my favorite of the three.

The Thanksgiving menu plan is officially on the refrigerator. It is just over a week until family arrives!

The teenagers were not particularly happy that I wanted to get some nice pictures of them today. I had a 50% off coupon code plus free shipping for Christmas cards from Shutterfly, so I was not missing the opportunity to use that. We spent about 15 minutes in our backyard with only minimal grumbling, and I am happy with the results.

I could not decide between the previous photo and this one as my favorite of the kids.

This is my favorite of Laura.

This is my favorite of John.

This is the proverbial “goofy” picture.

Our Christmas cards are officially ordered! I can cross another thing off my long holiday list.

While the rest of the Kassels are at a Scout campout, I took the opportunity to begin cleaning for Thanksgiving. Besides scrubbing the bathrooms, I took the opportunity to clean all the glassware on the shelves behind the basement bar. I knew we had a lot of glassware, but I did not realize just how much until I had to wash it all by hand. It is a little hard to believe that the glassware in the picture below is only about one-third of what was on display. It looks so much better now and the mountains of dust are gone. I can check a big project off my list!

Laura is coming to a road near you. She is official!