The Kassel Family Project Life 365 – Page 771 – Going Through Life One Blog Post at a Time

Easter Bunny Presents!

Posted on April 1, 2011October 17, 2025 by Erica

I “ran into” the Easter Bunny today and told him that Laura and John wanted bicycles. 🙂 He said he would be happy to accommodate such requests.

The orange and black “Tigger” bike below is John’s! The Easter Bunny found it at Goodwill for $15. Just needs a little bit of clean up. I’m sure John will be way too big for it next year so the Easter Bunny felt it was appropriate to not spend a lot of money. The Easter Bunny also found a Toy Story helmet at Toys R Us. John should love it…though I have serious doubts he’ll actually wear the helmet.

The Easter Bunny found Laura’s bike at Wal-Mart for $35! I think she’ll love it and be quite excited! To accessorize her bike, the Easter Bunny purchased a Disney Princess helmet and a Disney Princess basket and streamers for the handlebars.

Only thing left is to find flags for the bicycles because Laura saw that two neighbor girls have flags on their bicycles. I guess the Easter Bunny will have to visit a local bicycle shop for that. 🙂

Big Girls Don’t Need Sleep

Posted on March 31, 2011October 13, 2025 by Erica

Laura stayed home today because she was not feeling well. I suggested she take a nap. With her hands on her hips and a complete look of exasperation, she said to me, “Mommy, I am a BIG GIRL and I don’t need sleep!”

Fast forward 30 minutes…….

The Pan

Posted on March 30, 2011October 13, 2025 by Erica

I checked my menu plan this morning while making my lunch and saw that tonight we are having Jeremy’s special White Trash Helper (a homemade Hamburger Helper if you will) and Crescent Rolls. It occurred to me that the Crescent Rolls would again be baked on *the* pan. We use this one particular piece of Stoneware from The Pampered Chef all the time. Not quite every meal, but at least 3-4 times per week. As you can tell our large bar pan is well used and it bakes everything: meat, fish, potatoes, breads, cookies, etc.

Damn Andy

Posted on March 29, 2011October 13, 2025 by Erica

Andy bought this cow keychain that moos from “The Machine Shed” restaurant this past weekend. For something so small, it’s surprisingly loud. Unfortunately, the kids LOVE it! So I say, damn Andy! (And Kristena….you should *REALLY* pay more attention to your brother-in-law when having lunch! :))

Ugh

Posted on March 28, 2011October 17, 2025 by Erica

I’m not feeling well again. 🙁 Spent a portion of last night sleeping in front of the toilet. I was doing better for a while today, but I’m back to not feeling so hot. Here’s to hoping I get a good night’s sleep.

Catching up….

Posted on March 27, 2011October 13, 2025 by Erica

Been a busy weekend! Andy went to Chicago to the installation of the University of Chicago chapter of Sigma Chi. I decided that this weekend would be the weekend that I finally caught everything up. I’ve been just lazy about things the past month and have done virtually none of the things I usually do. The only things left on my list are to do the laundry (almost done), Project 365 for Sunday (doing now), clean the entryway (will be done in about 30 minutes), and clean the office (I’m just going to leave this one until next weekend). All in all, it was a productive weekend despite not getting everything done. I’ll call it successful.

Child Labor

Posted on March 26, 2011October 13, 2025 by Erica

Laura and I cleaned the kids’ bedroom today and she was so excited to help! Oh, how I will miss the days when helping isn’t fun anymore. 🙂