Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Last Saturday I took the three youngest kidlets and their bicycles to Hartley to ride the trails.  Mr. SP was dressed as Batman for the day.  In fact, underneath the Batman suit was his favorite pair of worn and comfy blue striped pajamas.  What can I say, we are a…

Ever since we had such a great time  touring Superior’s Fairlawn Mansion with Grandma Kathy earlier this summer, I have had in my mind to take my bigger kidlets to see Glensheen.  Things just didn’t work out for that to happen during the summer until last Monday, the very last…

Typically we don’t purchase a lot of clothing when taking care of our back to school shopping.  This is mostly because our kids clothing comes from a variety of sources, and most of the time those sources do not involve regular stores.  However, when Dr. Peds and Mr. SP were…

This is a long strand of DNA built  by Mr. SP using Zoob. There were a lot of things I had in mind to do this summer that did not happen.  Fortunately there were also a lot of great things that I didn’t plan or predict that DID happen, but…

Because who doesn’t want to go to the beach wearing a big fuzzy dragon costume?  Tons of fun.  

After reading Ted Kooser’s poetry book “The Blizzard Voices,” which poetically chronicles some of the stories of the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard of 1888, I did more reading about this devastating and catastrophic weather event.  The stories are gripping. Buttermilk pancakes with fresh peaches and whipped cream:  I learned that this is…

  The truth of the matter is that I’m not the best pray-er.  It’s not a habit that comes naturally to me, and I’ve been working on changing that these days.  For a long time I’ve had the idea to spell out the word “Pray” above one of the windows…

I’ve been waiting to head up to the Stony Point beach all summer.  We don’t go there as often because it’s about a ten minute drive out of town, and it’s one of my favorites.  Then again, almost every beach is my favorite.  Each beach on Lake Superior is so…

The middle kidlets had earned an ice cream treat because they completed their learning quests (I’m going to write more about learning quests in a future post).  I decided that Saturday would be a great opportunity to go on a bike ride on the Lakewalk to get ice cream.  Bike…