Super Rachel Zana's Spot

It’s been a long time now, since Mr. Trouble on Feet chose this duck blanket to be his special comfort item.  My mom actually sewed the blanket for Mr. Sneaky Pants, and it’s been around the block because The Banana used it frequently too, although she preferred her “nice” blankies,…

The Banana is an enthusiastic kindergartener.  She loves her teacher.  She loves her homework.  She loves going to school.  But since I started teaching preschool music classes at the assisted living centers, she has been frustrated that she has had to miss out, saying often that it was her FAVORITE…

A few weeks ago my friend Siri and I realized that Minnesota and North Dakota had teachers convention at the same time this year, and although they got two days off from school and we only had one, we decided it might be quite fun to do something together and…

YaYa and I had a good time making birdseed cookies while Mr. Trouble on Feet was napping and The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants were building with Legos in the piano room, (we call the living room the piano room now, since the piano takes up a lot of it!  Also,…

These days I more often than not find myself in a state of survival, taking one task at a time and completing and not having a lot of spare time for things other than sleeping.  However, if I were suddenly gifted with a large quantity of spare time, I do…

On Saturday we loaded up the van with kidlets and headed down to the lakewalk for the Harvest Run, a 5K run that Dr. Peds and YaYa signed up for a few months ago.  Mr. SP was also scheduled for a 1K run (although on race day he was not…

It is most certainly true that this child does not enjoy studying for his spelling test each week, but I’d like to take a moment to mention that his transition into second grade, something that caused him anxiety weeks before school began, has gone exceptionally smoothly.  He’s been relaxed about…

Our resident kindergartener caught the cartwheel bug at school!  She’s my first kidlet with a love of cartwheels, and she turns them every chance she gets in an open space.  I, too, was a cartwheel girl.  I spent swaths of time in elementary school upside down turning carthwheels and trying…

We can’t drive past some of our favorite beaches without stopping at at least one even though it was a bit chilly and windy!  The kidlets requested a bit of time to play in the sand, and of course we obliged.  It was my favorite time of day, and it…