Lazy Rainy Sunday
Today has been a lazy, rainy Sunday. I did straighten up the house and I am nearly done with laundry, but for the most part I did nothing. The highlight of my day was watching “How to Train Your Dragon” and eating popcorn with the kiddos. What a nice way to spend an otherwise dreary day.
Cookbooks
At one point in my life (many years ago!), I had maybe 5 cookbooks. I joined a cookbook book club called “The Good Cook” and ended up with something more like I have now….
When I first starting “collecting” cookbooks, I fancied myself a much better cook than I really was. We lived on Hamburger Helper and about 4 other staples, but I had the cookbooks to prove my ability! Fortunately, for us, I am a much better cook these days. I’m much more adventurous and I actually DO use alot of the cookbooks you see. My best resource these days though is actually my very own recipe database courtesy of Andy! It’s Web-based and I just add recipes as we discover new ones. Our meal rotation is getting really large! Oh and if you want to check out the recipe database, the address is: http://www.kasselfamily.org/recipes. The username is “cook” and the password is “food”. I’m actually off to add three more recipes right now! Look around and help yourself! Should you get brave feel free to add a recipe or two! I love trying new things. 🙂
Dancing Fun
This was the scene before work/daycare this morning.
The kids were dancing to “The Ants Go Marching In.” Laura was waving her arms and John was doing some sort of weird break dancing thing. What a fun thing to watch!
Adventures in Clothes
Today, I had to get John some more shorts. I don’t want to spend a lot of money because he’s rough on clothes. Therefore, I refuse to go to Old Navy or even certain brands at Target. Anything over $5 is not getting bought except for special occasions. Well, I went to Children’s Orchard and Wal-Mart. For $23, I bought 1 T-shirt and 6 pairs of shorts! Good finds, I think. 🙂
Choice Time
On Monday and today, we took Laura to “Choice Time” at Ridgeway Elementary School. It’s a time at the end of the school day where the students are allowed to do what they want. It was quite fun to watch Laura first inspect the rooms and then slowly warm up to everyone and everything. I hope it also gave her a bit of an idea of what life will be like in Kindergarten starting in August. She played with a few of the kids and she also enjoyed seeing the tadpoles that were growing in one of the classrooms. When we left today, she said that she couldn’t wait for Kindergarten to start! But a few minutes later she said, “I can wait a bit longer for Kindergarten to start Mommy. I still have too much to do at daycare since I have to move up to the big girl swimming classes.” She then said, “I’ll be ready in August!”
The Dress
This is the dress. The one I would love to wear to the closing ball at Sigma Chi Grand Chapter. Problem is that between pure laziness and my health issue last year, I simply have gained too much weight to wear it. I *am* losing weight now, but nowhere near enough to wear it to Grand Chapter. That makes me sad, but I’ll get over it. I am determined though that I’ll be wearing that dress in 2 years at the next Sigma Chi Grand Chapter. For this Grand Chapter, I’ll settle for just losing more weight. So, for the next 43 days before we leave for Dallas, I’m going to exercise EVERY day even if it is only 30 minutes. Will it be tough? Yes. Will I have motivation problems? Yes. Am I going to succeed though? Absolutely.