Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The Banana decided she’d like to try playing soccer this summer, so we signed her up.  Soccer is kind of a big deal here, and there are some people who have kids who practically play soccer the whole year through because they are in special leagues.  We are just doing…

I used to absolutely detest the month of August, until I moved next to Lake Superior.  Every year I am surprised at what a great month August is here.  We’ve been having so much rain this summer, which I love, and everything still looks fresh and green in August.  The…

We were the only people at the Secret Beach except for a large family with Georgian accents that joined us about halfway through our time there.  The Georgian accented people just couldn’t quite process these kids swimming in the cold, cold water.

Our Latvian host girls departed two weeks ago now.  I haven’t written about it because it’s taken two weeks to mentally process.  Goodbyes are always hard for me, and there really aren’t words that can adequately describe that kind of goodbye:  handing two girls back to their (wonderful) chaperone so…

One of our host daughters has some special needs, and having a calendar that shows what is going to be happening in our family really helps quell her anxiety.  She does best when she knows exactly what is happening and when it will be happening, and a calendar really helped…

Most of our Sunday night at the Beach images I am not able to share because of hosting, but here are a couple that I can post.  It took us a while to get to the beach this particular Sunday, but we had a great time looking for treasures in…

I’m a few weeks behind on posting.  Mr. SP was at Bible camp about two weeks ago.  There is a tradition at our Bible camp that if you receive a box or three pieces of mail in a day you have to sing a song, tell a joke or do…

  Someone from inside the cabin yelled out the door for be to come inside with my camera.  Usually there’s a good reason for that, so I did, and I came across Cousin Janzie giving Mr. SP a facial (for the small price of a piece of candy, apparently).  The…

Our Extended Family cabin weekend was a little bit earlier than usual this summer.  The great thing about that was that our Latvian host girls could come with us to the cabin, and they LOVED it.  They were in the water from sunrise to sunset.  Here are some of the…