Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Perhaps the best part of camping at Temperance River is the proximity of our excellent campsite to the water.  The Lake is right there, and right around the corner, the mouth of Temperance River.  Sometimes Temperance River is crazy dangerous, but it just happened to be that while we were…

Our neighbor half way down the street brought a treasure box when we went camping.  He stuffed the inside with candy, and one evening, after all the kidlets were tucked into bed, he and Dr. Peds worked on drawing an excellent pirate treasure map.  They even burned the edges of…

These silly kidlets took limes to the beach.  There is no way around the fact that they are extremely goofy people.  Dr. Peds got me those large cat eye sunglasses It’s a family joke how I go around wearing cheap and wonderfully LOUD cat eye sunglasses.  These sunglasses are polarized…

I don’t actually know how to play Smores:  The Card Game, but I can tell you that these four people laughed SO loudly while playing it!  I wanted to laugh just listening to them.  It seemed to be the perfect card game for a camping trip.  

We spent the middle part of last week camping at Temperance River State Park.  Way back in January we reserved  the same campsite we used last summer, because it’s pretty much the most perfect campsite ever. You look out of your tent and can see the lake.  You walk across…

The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants had already been swimming at  the beach for several hours with friends while Mr. TOF and I drove YaYa and two other kids to Bible Camp.  We got back and I threw some supper at the people who hadn’t had supper yet, while the…

He has decided to invent a prescription windshield for drivers who are visually challenged but need a break from their eyeglasses.

Normally I try really hard to make sure that all of the birthday festivities in our family happen on the exact birthday for each kidlet.  This year, however, Grandma Kathy was leaving on Sunday, Dr. Peds was leaving on Monday, and Mr. TOF’s actual birthday was on Tuesday.  Mr. TOF…

The Banana invited a friend from the neighborhood to come along, and we headed to the sandy beach last Sunday evening.  YaYa was at youth group and Dr. Peds was packing for a camping trip to the Boundary Waters.  Although it wasn’t windy in our neighborhood, a breeze was pushing…