The Kassel Family Project Life 365

We have a house guest for the next ten days. Meet Marco!

These days, it takes three gallons of milk a week to keep up with John.

Fall has arrived at the Kassel Castle! Our living room is painted the perfect color for fall decorations.

I was reminded, yet again, by the kids that I might have a seasonal decoration addiction as we were digging out the early fall decorations. Yes, I did say, “early fall.”

In about a month, the Halloween decorations come out and then once those are put away, the Thanksgiving decorations come out. That will be followed by the 25+ boxes of Christmas decorations. Then, there will be a month in between before the very small box of Valentine’s Day decorations come out, and then St. Patrick’s Day, followed by…

So, the kids may have a point, but I am Mom. I always win.

Laura received her marching band section shirts today. This year’s field show has a spider formation, so the sweatshirt and t-shirt reflect that.

This is the back of the t-shirt. All the names are listed by year, with the seniors being the biggest spider and the freshman being spider eggs.

Laura loves both of them and was so excited to finally have a little bit of normalcy in her freshman year.

I never thought that I would take the kids school supply shopping at their actual school, yet here we are. There were specific things that both needed for different classes, so we drove by West Middle School and Hickman High School to be handed a paper bag while we stayed in the truck. It is certainly a strange world right now.

So, this is what happens when the second child is born. You have all these great intentions of making the beautiful baby book like you did for the first child and then the reality of having two kids hits you and life moves so fast that all you can do is pray that you are keeping up even a little.

Then, you wake up one day and log into Shutterfly to order some actual prints and realize that you suck as a Mom because the second child is 12 and his baby book is half done. So, you knock out four pages in an hour and resolve to finish the book before he turns 13.

On one hand, Shutterfly has SO many more neat scrapbook options than 12 years ago, but that also leads me to realize that I am 8 years behind on turning the daily blog into printed scrapbooks. I told myself that at least I planned his baby book and I still have the script.

I still feel like a bad mom. I am sorry, John. I promise I will kick ass on this thing for you and have it printed 100 times if I need to.

While John and I were off at a baseball tournament last month, Andy was taking this picture of the Hickman High School Marching Band. I copied it from Andy’s photo share, but forgot to post it. I am so proud of Laura for stepping out of her comfort zone, but I am also sorry that she doesn’t get to truly have the marching band experience. Here is to hoping that her sophomore year allows for Friday Night Lights and band competitions!