The Kassel Family Project Life 365

Sometimes, you just have to have Chicken Nuggets and Macaroni and Cheese for dinner.

The kids earned their first weekly allowances this week.  Andy set a list of chores with Laura’s list having five tasks and John’s list having four tasks.  Each has three daily tasks, while Laura has two weekly tasks and John has one weekly task.  If they complete everything, Laura will earn $5 per week and John will earn $2 per week.  They were both quite excited to see the new chore lists on the refrigerator for the month of September and also to earn their first weekly allowance.  Great job kiddos!

It was homemade pizza night in the Kassel Household and the kids got in on the dough action.  Both of them had to help “smush” the dough for their pizza.  I found it amazing that they managed to make a pretty well-formed pizza with only minimal help from me.

Do you know where your children are?!?  Yep, I sure do…  IN BED at 7:43 pm on a Friday night.  That first week of school really wore them out!  Enough that John started crying because I didn’t wrap him in a towel properly.

…I’m not sure anything will.

It was another first for John today as he and Laura, along with Mady (our neighbor), rode the school bus.  John seemed genuinely excited today and there was no meltdown!

The school bus arrived pretty much right on time, which is unusual for the beginning of a school year.  Laura, the big Second Grader, led John and Mady, the little Kindergartners, safely onto the bus.  As the bus pulled away, Andy, Katie (Mady’s Mom), and I were amused to note that all three kids were sitting together in one seat.

Despite a bus issue this afternoon, the kids arrived home safely and John said he had fun on the bus.  Another successful day!

We officially have two kids in school!  I just can’t believe it!  Andy and I took the kids to school this morning so that we could get some “First Day” pictures.

Laura was ridiculously excited to see all her friends and couldn’t wait to get going.  When I asked her to pose for me in front of the school, she threw her arms out wide and said, “This is *MY* school!”

John was excited, but also apprehensive.  He didn’t fight me on taking any pictures though and seemed to understand that it was a big day for him.

After some time on the playground, it was time to head inside.  It was at this point that John broke down and started crying.  This was really hard on me and I finally had to leave him with the rest of the Unit A students and walk out of the gym.  Mrs. Hanney, his teacher, stayed with him for a moment and got him calmed down.  By the time he lined up with the rest of his class, he was better and even waved goodbye to Andy as his class left the gym.  I didn’t get a goodbye wave from him because I was hiding behind some other parents just out of John’s line of sight because I didn’t want him to start crying again.  On the opposite end of the “kid spectrum,” Laura was ready to go to class and she didn’t even bother to turn around to wave goodbye as her class left the gym.  What a different two years makes!

We picked up the kids after school and John was much happier.  He said he had a good day.  Mrs. Hanney called to let us know that John had a great first day and to reassure us that all was well.  It was great to hear!  John declared that Choice Time was the favorite part of his day.  Laura wouldn’t stop talking and said that she can’t wait to use her “B Bucks” to buy her teacher’s chair for a day.  All in all, it was a successful day!  Oh, and how am I doing you ask?  Well, I am sad and I had a good cry when I got home.  My youngest baby is in school.  Let the next stage of life begin.