Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The chalkboards are back!  They make me so happy!  A few weeks ago Dr. Peds and I (but mostly Dr. Peds) remanded the boards and primed and painted them with a new thick coat of chalkboard paint.  Now they are smoother than ever, and wash off so easily when it’s…

Doing everything with a cast is hard work.  Everything takes longer and requires so much more effort.  This last week, The Banana has come home from school each day and within just a few minutes, she’s fallen fast asleep.  Deeply asleep.  Naps are good.  Oh, yes.

Saturday was Cougar Chase race day!  The Banana and Mr. SP had been going to running club at school two days each week training to run the 5K race.  On weekends they ran with neighbor friends to stay in shape.  Mr. TOF was pretty frustrated about not getting to go…

  I learned about Alfred Schnittke,  a brief summary of his life how it influenced the music he composed. I’m in the process of learning thumb position on the cello, and how to connect motion between my shoulder blades (it’s still pretty abstract for me, though). I’m fascinated with following…

It’s started!  Perhaps it’s my favorite annual tradition, visiting various Lake Superior beaches every Sunday night from the end of May until October.  Every week is different, and it’s always an adventure, time well spent.  Because we have a girl in a cast, visiting a sandy beach was out of…

Sometimes I feel like a bad parent when there are a lot of things for me to take care of and I tell my kids to find something to do, something to keep busy.  It’s easy to have all sorts of ideas in my head of things that I should be…

This just makes me smile.

Usually the Mess of the Week is precipitated by one of the kidlets.  This time it might have been me.  It probably was me.  The moonroof on the van somehow did not get closed, and during the night there were not one, not two, but three thunderstorms with major downpours.…

The Banana had a run in with a piece of furniture in a neighbor’s house yesterday afternoon.  The furniture won. Dr. Peds suspected that her toe might be broken, and it turns out that he surmised correctly.  This morning he took her in to have it checked, and an Xray…