Super Rachel Zana's Spot

  This week my kidlets have a break from school all week.  I actually love that we get an entire week break in February and another week-long break in April.  Breaks like that help everyone come back to the classroom refreshed and ready to learn.  I would have loved that…

Yesterday we were out walking in the woods.  The Banana noticed that she, YaYa and I all were wearing silly hats.  “Let’s take a silly hat picture!” she exclaimed.  Of course, YaYa wanted no part in that, but I said sure, and handed my camera with all of the settings…

  The first two years we lived in Northern Minnesota, we didn’t know that the sea caves in the Apostle Islands were sometimes accessible by ice in the middle of the winter.  We found out about this the five years ago when the ice broke up and the caves were…

These wonderful pipe cleaner Valentine glasses came home from school with Mr. Sneaky Pants yesterday, and they went crazy modeling them.  Of course, Mr. SP and The Banana came home with a bag of valentines and candy too.  After little sugary snack, we sent them outside to burn off some…

I am super behind on blogging.  A few days ago The Banana came home from a “spa” birthday party with this amazing hairdo.  It was a circular french braid coming from the bottom and top, from some kind of bun on the top of her head.  It was gorgeous.  The…

Because nothing says “Happy Valentines Day!” more than a shark with very bloody jaggy teeth. Admission:  We totally stole this idea from the internet, but my third grader is SO proud of this box.  He cannot wait to take it to school tomorrow.  He said to me this morning, “I’m…

YaYa has been playing her oboe for more than a year now, taking lessons each week from a terrific oboist.  Last week was her first actual band concert, however, since most of the sixth graders at their school just got their instruments in November.  I have been waiting and waiting…

Mr.  SP was frustrated with himself because he had forgotten his Friday folder.  In his classroom,  every Friday all the work that has been handed in  for the week comes home graded and we look at it together.  Looking at it together is not his favorite thing, but that particular…

That last face is very similar to the face I see often when I ask him to fix something on the homework that I’m checking over.  Pure disgust. As you can see, this child has no trouble expressing his feelings.  Even though he looks grumpy on the last picture, the…

Sometimes it’s easy to get tired of dealing with cold, snowy weather.  It helps to look a bit closer.  All morning long we had a gentle snow shower, big flakes drifting slowly down from the sky.  I knitted a red scarf, baked banana muffins and listened to a pint sized…