Super Rachel Zana's Spot

He’s learning new words every day. My current favorites are “toast” and “noodles,” which comes out like “doodles.” He’s working on learning the names of people in our family. (The Banana was the first official name he said, which she was very excited about!) I love hearing his adorable little…

The past few autumn seasons I have planted a bag of crocus bulbs on the south facing hill in our yard from the driveway to the Little Free Library on the corner, and this spring those crocus blooms, along with some others in the backyard that have been established for…

It’s afternoon play time, and it usually involves something like this and a lot of balls being tossed about.

The pink sandals and the green toenails just work, don’t they?

I’m a slow processor of dialogue with other people because my introverted head is always spinning. Often my kids will ask me a question and I will respond to that question after a significant time delay that I haven’t even realized has taken place, which particularly frustrates my extroverted progeny…

It all started the night before when The Banana’s good friend who lives in the neighborhood came over during the spring snowstorm to bake an almond cake. They decided it would be more delicious to eat it with raspberry sauce, and I showed them the recipe and gave some brief…

March was a long, rather terrible slog in many ways. I am happy April has arrived with more hours of daylight, melting snow, and a calendar that is temporarily not quite so filled. Plus some things that I was dreading came to fruitition in March, which means I no longer…

It was terribly quiet, and I walked in the room to find this scene. He was just all comfy on the couch, surrounded by slice after slice of bread with one bite out of each, chomping away as calm as could be. Those arms are getting disturbingly good at reaching…

Because practice habits around here have been . . . ahem. . . a bit out of sorts, I told The Banana and Mr. TOF that we would have the Easter Egg hunt after they finished all their practicing. Mr. TOF made an artistic sign and taped it to the…