Super Rachel Zana's Spot

I’m a bit behind.   A week ago Friday The Banana turned eleven!  For months she had been planning to have her favorite cereal available at the COOP (organic) grocery store along with THE MILK.  THE MILK comes from a local dairy, and it is incredibly fresh and packaged in…

So today, it seems, I actually accidentally taught five piano lessons professionally dressed wearing a skirt that was completely inside out. The Banana discovered this when she came home from school.  She took one look at me and said, “Mom, your skirt is on inside out.  There’s a tag sticking…

We’re in the middle of some house projects here.  We’re still waiting for the door for our garage that we are renovating into a mudroom, so we are living with our big freezer in the family room.  At this point I don’t even notice it anymore.  It just feels normal…

Last Saturday Mr. SP got to fly in a a small airplane through a program build into our middle school’s sixth grade science curriculum.  You may recall that a couple of years ago YaYa also got to do this, and it sparked a small obsession with aviation for her.  Mr.…

Me:  Please don’t walk around eating that sandwich.  Either take it outside or sit down at the dining room table. The Banana sits down at the kid play table.  Me:  No, not that table, the DINING ROOM table.  You are getting crumbs on the Legos. The Banana:  It’s all OK…

Tuesday was the first day of school.  Mr. TOF headed to first grade.  The Banana settled into her last year of elementary school (Wah!).  Mr. SP began seventh grade, and YaYa started tenth grade.  We have kids in three different buildings. The first day of school was COLD and windy.…

The most cooperative child got to choose which beach to visit on the Sunday before Labor Day.  It was an especially nice night because we were not working around youth group or soccer practice.  Dr. Peds was working.  YaYa declined participation.  But the rest of us headed for the sandy…

  Last year we rode our bikes half the length of the Lakewalk, which was the farthest Mr. TOF had ridden at once before.  We had plans all summer long last year to ride the entire Lakewalk, from the rocky beach all the way to the bridge.  Mr. TOF was…

Last year when Dr. Peds left to do the back-to-school shoe shopping (he’s a lovely dad, and so good with shoes) I begged him to please find not-tying gym shoes for Mr. TOF. I just really believe it’s good to get through kindergarten without the mess of shoe tying.  There…

Last Saturday was a day filled with pouring rain.  Literally, it poured all day long.  It rained a great deal of Sunday as well, but it was only slightly drippy by evening, and when we drove across the bridge of the Lester River, Dr. Peds suggested that we go down…