Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The girls we hosted from Latvia during December last winter are coming back to spend five weeks with us this summer!  They are set to arrive next week, and we are very much anticipating their arrival. Their situation is very complicated, and there are many complex parts that I just…

  While Cousin Alex was visiting for Camp Aunt Rachel, we visited the sandy beach and brought along YaYa’s friend, an exchange student from Austria.  (A very patient and polite exchange student who clearly can put up with a lot of crazy!). The girls were off for a stroll along…

A week ago, when I picked up Cousin Alex from the cabin, we got back to Duluth a bit after the sun had set.   But I was determined to go to the beach anyway, so we stopped on our way back to the house.  We arrived at the beach…

On Sunday we drove to the cabin to pick up Cousin Alex and bring him to our house for Camp Aunt Rachel, a weeklong extravaganza.  We dropped off The Banana, who went back to North Dakota to help Auntie Dot with the little ones for the week.  We had a…

Mr. Trouble on Feet is so very excited to be playing baseball.  He loves baseball practice.  He loves baseball games.  He spends all his spare time in the yard throwing balls and catching them, and trying to run around the bases he’s set up in the yard as fast as…

  YaYa’s very good friend from music camp happens to live in Wisconsin (which is pretty crazy since music camp is on the International Border  of North Dakota).  Her family happened to be up the North Shore of Lake Superior for the weekend for a family trip, and on the…

She’s one quirky girl, and makes me laugh almost every single day. It takes a special kid to look over at her parents who are having a wee bit of a tiff about the correct procedure to fold up the sun umbrella on the deck and sing so sweetly and…

I only had ONE runner at the Cougar Chase this year!  The Banana unfortunately was plagued by another injury to a tendon-like thing in her ankle and wasn’t able to run the 5K like she had hoped.  Mr. TOF ran the 1K race at a fast and furious pace.  He’s…

Around here there seems to be some sort of live music making going on most of the day each day.  If I’m not practicing, I’m listening to a kidlet practice or a student play at a lesson.  Because I’m easily overstimulated by lots of sound, when I’m doing something that…

There aren’t many images this time, because quite frankly, I was enjoying sitting next to the water, watching the clouds too much to take many pictures.  There were lots of small scattered thundershowers over the Lake, which made for excellent cloud watching.