The Kassel Family Project Life 365

It was a night out for all the Kassels.  Laura and John went to the Activity and Recreation Center (ARC) for the annual Camp Mudd Reunion.  The kids were very excited to see all their counselors and friends from camp this past summer and to have the run of the ARC, including the awesome swimming pool, for the evening.  Since the kids were busy, we took the opportunity to go to dinner and watch Mizzou Football with the Dothages.  We went to Rio Grande for dinner and then on to Truman’s to watch the rest of the game.  What a fun, great evening filled with great friends, good food, drinks, and relaxation.

While their big sisters were at a Brownie meeting, the Creech boys – Wilson and Jackson – came to play!  The boys had a great time!

It is the end of the first trimester at Ridgeway Elementary and time for Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences!  We picked up the kids after school and stopped in at the Scholastic Book Fair.  We bought two books for each kid and one for each of their classrooms.  Then, we met with Laura’s teacher, Mrs. Sandstedt.  Laura is doing well.  She just needs to work on motivating herself to assign herself more homework in Math.  Then, we met with John’s teacher, Mrs. Hanney.  He is doing well, but just needs a bit more confidence in reading.  He is “almost there.”  He also needs help on his math subtraction facts, but he is good with his math addition facts.  Great job to both kids!

We put away the Halloween decorations the day after Halloween.  Looks like we missed a table runner and the spider web table covers.  Oh well…  I’ll get them put away when we dig out the Christmas decorations next weekend!

Laura lost her ninth tooth today and she has another loose tooth.  John has no less than four loose teeth.  I suspect the Tooth Fairy will be broke in the very near future…

It is the time of year when I purge my closet and the kids’ closets.  One bag of Laura’s clothes went to Alia and a box of John’s clothes are going to Wil.  My clothes are going to Goodwill and Andy said that his closet is up next!

John needed a new pair of thermal underwear before our trip to Chicago for Thanksgiving because his old pair is too small.  He had the choice of army green, navy blue, black, or gray with skulls and crossbones.  Without hesitation, he pointed to the pair with the skulls and crossbones and said, “That pair because that is what a pirate would wear!”  There is simply no arguing with that.