Super Rachel Zana's Spot

My piano student recital was last Monday evening, and YaYa and Mr. SP made their debut.  They remained calm, cool and collected despite my own neurosis regarding recitals.  I used to be a grumpy, nervous wreck before my own recitals, from a beginning piano student all they way through college,…

We were super duper excited when we heard that Grandma Kathy and Auntie Dot decided to make a weekend road trip east to see us! Of course they brought those delectable cousins along, and we all just had a wonderful, relaxing time together.  They arrived late in the night on…

The Congdon Park Cougar Chase is a morning filled with running races for kids and adults that serves as a fundraiser for the big kidlets’ school.  The event had been greatly anticipated in our house, with three kidlets and one dad registered to run.  The Banana ran a  .5 K…

I took a lovely seven minute shower the other day, and upon exiting, clad in a towel and on my way to find real clothes, I looked over and saw Mr. Trouble on Feet sitting so nicely and quietly on the steps going down toward the landing.  Half a second…

Over Memorial Day Weekend it rained and rained and rained.  And it had been raining for days and days previous to that.  Don’t quote this as an official number, but if I’m adding things correctly, I believe that in less than a week we had well over seven inches of…

Pictures do not do justice to the density and roundness and rolls on the appendages of my most adorable little niece, who looks like a china doll and has an extremely laid back, relaxed disposition.  I could not get enough of her!  It was such turmoil to decide if I…

Above are my Great Auntie Carol and Great Auntie Bean, both were close by as I was growing up, and they are kind of like an extra set of grandmas to me.  Auntie Bean was also my first and second grade teacher, which is kind of special. Cousin Lisa arrives…

  It may have been a short, quick trip, but everywhere we went we made the most of pretty much every moment, and Saturday at my family’s farm was no exception.  There was food to be devoured, tickling to be done, catch to be played on the lawn, and snuggles…

It COULD be that the eldest sister started giving everyone directions about where to place their heavily endowed chests in order to fit around Grandma’s wheelchair that set off this ruckus.  But then again, I’d never write about that on the internet. Side note:  when I think of my aunts…

These two happen to be quite the pair of cousins, buddies who I am certain are going to do a lot of plotting and planning and executing whenever they are together in the future.  There’s always a large degree of freedom on the farm, and these two took advantage of…