The Kassel Family Project Life 365

…that she will hate me for when she gets older, but it was too good for me to pass up!

I am still not feeling well.  I feel slightly better than yesterday, but only slightly.  That made today a largely pointless day.  My main goal for today besides laundry was to begin taking all the Christmas decorations down.  I had hoped to have both trees down at the very least.  Well, they are both still up.  Andy managed to put the Christmas inflatables away and get the lights down from around our front door and garage door.   I, however, managed nothing.  Oh well…  There is always tomorrow.

It was a busy day for all of us.  Unfortunately, I woke up feeling awful with a sore throat and sinus pressure.  Ibuprofen helped a bit, but I had no time for illness.  We headed out about 10 am for Kid’s Workshop at Home Depot.  January was “get rid of all the leftover projects” month, so the kids had their choice.  Laura chose a bulletin board; John chose a helicopter.  As always, the kids had a great time building.  Both were concentrating very hard and being very careful while they hammered.  John always rolls his tongue up as if it’s his upper lip.

Laura sticks her tongue out.

Both were very proud of their finished projects.  John “flew” his helicopter all over Home Depot and Laura planned for painting her bulletin board.  We will be adding paint (she’s still deciding on a color) and putting Girl Scout stickers on it.  After a bit of shopping, we headed home for a quick lunch.  Andy and I had tickets to the Mizzou vs. Bucknell game.  Jenna and Brent arrived about 1:30 for “babysittering” and Andy and I headed for Mizzou Arena.  We had a great time at the game despite my pounding head from the sinus pressure.  I made sure to take a few pictures of the cheerleaders for Laura and I particularly enjoyed watching them bouncing Truman The Tiger around.  It was a fun thing to watch.

It turned out to be a close game with Mizzou pulling out a win in the final seconds.  Mizzou didn’t play their best, but they did enough to pull out the win.  We arrived home about 6 pm.  I made tacos for dinner and then we put the kids to bed.  I headed to bed right away because I was feeling much worse and falling asleep on my feet.  It was a fun, but very tiring day.

The Kassel Clan went to the Girl Scout cookie sales kick off tonight for Laura’s Daisy Scout troop.  Cookie Sales have officially begun!  If any of you want some Girl Scout cookies, I know a super cute redhead that would LOVE to sell you some!  Just let me know and I’ll have her contact you.  She is so excited to sell cookies for the first time and can’t wait to get going!  If you don’t want cookies, but would like to help out her troop, donations are welcomed too.  She set a low goal of only 25 boxes because she wants to earn a patch for her tunic, but she also said, “It is my first time selling cookies and I want to be real.  *BUT* I can work towards my goal and then aim for more if I meet it!”  So, off we go into cookie-selling land!

I’m a sucker for cute kiddos in pajamas…

Let no one ever say that we didn’t train them when they were young.  Our future chefs are practicing their knife skills.

Happy First Day of 2013!  I can’t believe I’m starting Year Three of this blog.  It seems like yesterday that I started it all.  Without it, there would be many, many memories otherwise forgotten.  I’m extremely grateful to Colleen Teodosio for giving Jill Blume the push to start BlumeNation Picture of the Day, because Jill gave me the push (even though she didn’t know it at the time.)  This project is quite a gift.  If you are thinking about starting, I recommend that you do.  It will seem like a chore at first, but you will be rocking it before you know it.  And at the end of that year, you will be amazed at all the memories you captured.  You will even appreciate the crappy ones because it’s all apart of this great little thing that we call life.  And now on to Day 1 of 2013!

We started the new year off by having a lazy, lazy day!  I wore my super comfy Snowman pajamas all day.  Hey, if the kids get to have pajama days, then I do too!  Our main focus for today was in the kids’ room.  They have had the bunk beds for a year and so, today, they switched bunks for the next year.  Both were excited for the switch and enjoyed helping us get them ready.

I must admit that the bedroom looks darker with John’s bedding on the top, but he was so excited to be able to “finally, finally sleep on top!”

On a side note, Andy’s main focus for today was football, football, and more football.  I think we watched at least three College Bowl games.  Good times…  Good times…