The Kassel Family Project Life 365

After a busy morning at a birthday party for one of Laura’s friends, we headed home to dig out some of the Christmas decorations from the crawl space.  Since we are going out of town on Wednesday for Thanksgiving, I wanted to get all of the decorations up except for the two Christmas trees.  I am proud to say that I was largely successful in my endeavors and it only took about 3 hours.  Go Me!  By the way, if I stand only looking at the wine rack, it appears that I am completely done putting up decorations.  Maybe I should just pretend that I accomplished all of what I wanted to do?!?

We went to watch the Missouri Volleyball Team going for the University of Missouri’s first SEC Championship in *any* sport this evening.  We knew the Hearnes Center would most likely have more spectators than usual, but we were NOT expecting a record crowd of 7,879 people!  Awesome!  While the team didn’t play as well as they usually do, it all came out just fine.  They brought that SEC Championship home for the University of Missouri and extended their regular season record to 32-0.  Two matches to go to a perfect season!  Congratulations Tigers!  You earned it through hard, hard work and it was great to see you win!  You deserve it!  I just wish we could be there to watch you finish your regular season!  34-0 would be quite a feat.

There was simply only one downside to the entire evening.  Note to the Missouri Men’s Basketball team…  I don’t know if you were forced to attend this match or what, but your behavior was ridiculous.  You should have shown some support to this amazing team!  You sat in the front row in the cushy, padded seats not clapping and playing with your smartphones.  You looked completely and utterly bored.  You didn’t even stand when the band played the MU Fight Song.  *THAT* is both disrespectful and inexcusable behavior to the University and FANS who support you.  If that was *YOU* going for the school’s first SEC Championship, those ladies would have been there cheering their heads off for you.  They *DESERVED* much better than they got from you.

What do you see in John’s drawing?  Well, I saw a white caterpillar, but it is NOT that.  This is the night sky with the moon and Neptune, Venus, and Mars.  I really upset him with my caterpillar comment until I offered to take a picture of him…

…that Laura is getting older.  I gave away her Easy Bake oven today to make some more space for American Girl clothes and accessories.

…for Big Sister!  John was in the middle of a meltdown when Laura offered to read him the story of his choice.  He stopped crying and went straight to the family room couch to snuggle up and hear a story.  He is still tired, but he is calm.  I love watching Big Sister read to Little Brother and I love that he loves to have Laura read to him!

Between getting myself and two kids ready, a husband up, the kitchen straightened up from breakfast, and beds made, I don’t have time to actually make lunches in the mornings.  Because of this, it has become part of my nighttime routine to get lunches ready for the next day.  Sometimes, it is just one lunch (mine) or, sometimes, it is four lunches.  I start by prepping the lunch boxes.  Four lunch boxes and two water bottles really take up some counter space!

Then, I make the actual lunches with parts going into the refrigerator and parts going directly into the lunch boxes.

Yes, it makes life easier in the mornings, but there are nights when it feels like a hassle.  Tonight would be one of *those* nights.  I will be happy tomorrow morning that I made lunches ahead of time.  No rushing around.  I’ll just remind myself of that for what seems like the tenth time!

Finally, a weekend at home to get all those household chores completed!  Between yesterday and today, I managed to complete nearly all of my list and even found the time to enjoy a glass of wine or two or three…