Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Here he is, my little guy, on the couch, trying is very best to use logic and reasoning to convince me to let him play the viola.  He thinks he’s ready to start right now.  A few weeks ago it was the cello.  Then the violin, but his big sister…

He was SO excited to make Valentines for his fellow kindergarteners.  He asked about starting the project every five minutes all of Saturday morning, and after lunch it was time to get to work.

Before Christmas Mr. SP approached us and asked what we thought about him joining the swim team at middle school.  “Absolutely!  Great idea!” we said and filled out all the paperwork. The swim team at middle school is an inclusive group for kids who haven’t had experience with competitive swimming…

On Friday night the kindergarteners in Mr. TOF’s class were presented with an opportunity for a family field trip to a UMD women’s hockey game.  Mr. TOF was dying to participate, of course, and Dr. Peds thought he would be done with work in time to take him.  There was…

I have amazing neighbors.  Last Thursday while I was busy with music students, my neighbor, who is one of Mr. TOF’s favorite people in the whole entire world, helped Mr. TOF along with random other neighborhood kids build an enormous snow dragon in the yard between our two houses.  It’s…

  I realize that it is now the middle of January, but I couldn’t resist sharing the most amazing and hilarious Christmas gift I’ve ever received in my whole entire life. My third kidlet, The Banana?  She’s a really funny kid.  She has a terrific sense of humor.  When she…

She’s been 15 for more than 2 weeks, but she still can’t blow out the candles on her cake.  Multiple years, now, she’s caught the giggles right before the big moment.  This year she extinguished . . . one candle.  One.  Her little sister helped with the rest.

Having strong recollections of how some of my other kidlets struggled with ice skating when they were Mr. TOF’s age, I mentioned to him several times when he was begging to go skating,”You know, skating is tricky.  It’s harder than it looks.  You can’t just put on skates and go.…

He might not play hockey, but hockey hair?  He’s got that down. During holiday break from school my kidlets discovered the ice skating rink that has always been within walking distance.  Somehow we never paid attention to it before, but now the bigger kidlets can walk there themselves, and they’ve…

This Christmas my grocery lists have been written bilingually. I hear carols hummed and sung in two different languages. We got to see two sisters over the moon excited about an enormous Christmas light display. I actually managed to take a picture of all the kids dressed up on Christmas…