Super Rachel Zana's Spot

He thought it was SO incredibly funny to throw all the rubber ducks at me.

I’ll just leave you to make your own judgements.

Both front teeth are GONE!  I’m pretty excited about that gigantic gap.  I was really hoping he’d loose both at the same time, because I love the look of two missing front teeth. I actually love the look of any kid with any kind of missing teeth.  (It’s not QUITE…

It turns out that 9 inches of heavy rain in 24 hours will turn even a city built on a steep hill into a flooded mess.  It didn’t help that we had several inches of rain the day before the nine inches, either.  I don’t have dramatic photographs of all…

Half of our friends the Penns came to visit for marathon weekend.  While we (especially Mr. SP) really missed the other half that was fishing in Canada, great fun was to be had with the contingent who came to Duluth! We took a walk to the secret creek, where everyone…

It was a few weeks ago, now, that these two dressed up in costumes, leaped around the deck, and proclaimed in dramatic Italian Accents that they were looking for “clues.”  Their clues led them to discover that I was a green bomb, sitting in a chair at the table out…

Mr. SP was busy flying his airplane around out in the backyard.  After a bit, I looked out the window, and saw that the airplane and the broom were both stuck on the roof.  There was a sigh of discontent.  He climbed on the kid picnic table, but couldn’t reach…

Like his biggest sister, Mr. Trouble on Feet is a bird appreciator.  He likes robins.  He likes crows.  He likes ducks and geese, and he especially enjoys those noisy, white seagulls with an extra dose of personality.

The Banana has started a dead butterfly collection.  The neighbors happily gave her this beauty that was stuck to the front grill on their car.  It has been joined by a couple of others she found stuck in crevices and corners next to the curb of different streets we’ve walked…

Mr. SP was a reluctant book report writing machine this year.  He loved reading.  He loved writing books reports much, much less.  Yet, he always met or exceeded the required quota of 8 reports a month.  During the months of May and June, his teacher invited those who had handed…