Super Rachel Zana's Spot

  YaYa and Mr. SP swam out to the big rock at the secret beach.

I love deckle edge paper!  It feels like such a luxury to read. It goes without saying that when I title a post “What We’ve Been Reading” my silent reading kids are reading a lot more than I am.  In fact, these days they devour books at an incredible rate…

The Banana and Mr. TOF set up a little restaurant on the deck with a few spare frying pans (old ones), some plastic dishes, and other accessories from the play kitchen inside.  They brought over some sand from the sand box, got some water out of the water barrel and…

I learned how to use our new bike rack to transport bikes on the back of the van.  We’ve had some great mini-adventures with our bikes! I FINALLY learned and am remembering how to tell the difference betweeen white pine trees and red pine trees.  I just didn’t grow up…

It was just a quick evening trip down to the rocky beach on Sunday night.  We got a bit of a late start and couldn’t stay all that long because much was left to do at home.  Dr. Peds needed to pack for his Boundary Waters Canoe trip, there were…

Our cat loves to be outside.  Unfortunately there is a leash law for cats in our city, and there are some people in our neighborhood that get very, very upset when our cat roams around, so we try to only  take him outside with a leash.  It feels more than…

  Nine tall ships (at least I think it was nine) sailed into the harbor on Thursday during the parade of entry for the tall ship festival.  Because 250,000 people were out and about to see their arrival, and for good reason, because the ships are so wonderful and magestic,…

It happens to be one of their favorites.  I’m always happy when they can eat it outside.

Last week, along with some incredibly delicious zucchini muffins, I experimented with a recipe called “morning muffins” and baked the most disgusting muffins I’ve ever eaten.  I literally took a bite and gagged.  I’ve determined that shredded carrots do not belong in muffins.  All of the kidlets tried them just…

As we were trudging through the slow and cold spring months and planning our our summer months, Dr. Peds and I decided that we should do some camping this year.  We hadn’t been camping since Mr. TOF was born because of various reasons, one of which was that we had…