Super Rachel Zana's Spot

I spent The Banana’s birthday eve scrounging around and scouring every nook and cranny of the house until 3:00 A.M. looking for her birthday tablecloth, which I never did manage to locate even though I am certain I saw it in its regular resting place at Mr. Trouble on Feet’s…

Oh the Happiness to be found when their are 200 million small rocks just waiting to be hurled in the water, and every rock presents its own bout of excitement.

Out of the blue, The Banana said, “Mama, if I had to choose between picking crabapples all day and blowing my nose all day, I think I would have to choose the crabapples.”

We start school a bit later than lots of other places, which I don’t mind at all even though it means we get out of school later in the spring.  After months of all of us sleeping in until 8:00 (8:30 even some days!) I knew we needed to spend…

We’ve used the last few days of summer, which Dr. Peds had off of work, to pack in a little bit of swimming time at the rocky beach each night.  It seemed the perfect thing to do before bed after all the warm afternoons.

The kidlets have been anxiously awaiting Egg Drop Day since we tried it last year.  I decided that Monday would be a great day to try this drama-filled activity.  This year we agreed on a few modifications for the rules:  each person had to make their own egg-dropping contraption; they…

A visit to the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids has been on my list of places to go with kidlets for quite some time.  Near the end of last week we were throwing some possible ideas out of places we might want to go for a day trip.  We…

They are talking about  and signing  “moon”  as we watched the big, pink moon appear like magic over the lake while the big kidlets, clad in lifejackets and wetsuits, jumped around in the surf.

It was hot, and so we took a quick trip to the rocky beach yesterday.  Because it was hot, I brought along my underwater camera bag, and had fun really putting it to use.  We didn’t realize there was an east wind until we got to the beach, which meant…

These are the faces of a young boy placed in time out because he jumped off a boulder into Lake Superior without a life jacket, plunging into water far above his cute little head. He ranted.  He raved. He tried to persuade me into thinking that it was fine for…