Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The first day we arrived at Winter Park YaYa quickly met us at the train platform with a big hug and then was off to finish a multiple day ski evaluation for a more advanced licensure as a ski instructor. She passed! Since our lodging accommodations were not available right…

We had a long weekend from school at the end of the semester, and we made it a day longer to take a super fun trip. The Banana, Mr. TOF and I flew to Colorado and then took a train to visit YaYa at Winter Park where she works at…

He’s not one for scarcity! Two pillows, multiple blankets, and stuffed friends galore fill the crib, and he needs them all.

Peanut Maximus waits for the grocery delivery and helps me put all the groceries away in the kitchen. What could be more classic than a toddler walking around with a grocery bag on his head? I love every aspect of it: the chubby hands at the bottom of the bag,…

Pushing around cereal and loading it into dump trucks wasn’t actually as messy as I anticipated it to be. This was an activity that lasted a few days. During the day Peanut Maximus would load and haul, and in the evening after he went to bed, his big siblings loaded…

He is passcoded out of every possible electronic device in the house, but that does not stop him from an undeniable attraction to a screen that lights up. If he sees one he’ll happily sit down and just touch the screen in every way possible until the device has been…

Between school, youth symphony and Lake Superior Youth Chorus, The Banana and Mr. TOF had seven concerts and two rehearsals in the time span from 3:00 Friday to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. It was nuts! (The Banana was actually leaving concerts before they were over to participate in other concerts!)…

The December schedule in this family makes me feel like this alligator. Full stop.