Super Rachel Zana's Spot

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…

Have I mentioned that we are in the middle of a giant remodel of our tiny garage?  Our garage (that is so small I don’t think it would actually even hold our minivan) was added to our 1920’s house in the 1940’s, along with a sunroom directly above it.  We…

I learned several small pieces on my cello, and I’m in the middle of two bigger and trickier pieces.  It’s slow progress, but I just keep plugging a long.  I’m working on some of the upper positions and some tricky bowings, not to mention that elusive vibrato. Stomach acid has…

  We’ve had a lot of appliances down for the count in the past year and a half.  It started with the toaster. Our old one almost started the kitchen on fire, and we had to replace it.  Then the freezer gave out after our big thunderstorm catastrophe last summer…