Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Driving over to Bayfield and picking apples at an orchard is another one of those things that has been high on my list of things to do, and something we haven’t done in the five autumn seasons we’ve lived here.  I think it is an experience that is definitely worthy…

In my maternal heritage, there is a long lineage of women who are fantastic verbal story tellers, spanning multiple generations.  When they get together it is noisy and the stories compound and are told with magnificent gusto, and those listening are generally thrown into hysterical laughter . . . the…

I haven’t posted about our favorite reads around the this house for a LONG time!  There’s a lot of reading going on.  YaYa goes through spurts of being a truly voracious reader, especially when she gets caught up in a series of books she really likes or a certain novel…

Being a Mama of a toddler is a rough and tumble job.  During this last week I’ve been clunked on the head with sippy cups, pans from the toy kitchen, sticks from the forest, and books.  I’ve been scratched on the nose. It bled and I looked like Frankenstein.  Yesterday…

This week we had our first very hard freeze.  It’s much earlier than normal for us here next to the Big Lake, but it happened nonetheless, and while it has been met with a bit of wistfulness and shock (it was so very warm just a few days ago)  it…

It happened a couple of days before her birthday, of course, that The Banana had her first day of preschool for this school year.  She had been waiting fervently since the last day of preschool in the fall.  Suffice it to say that my social girl thrives at preschool.  She…

She has been waiting forever for preschool to start and for her birthday arrive, and both happened this week, which means I have a very happy little girl at my house.  She has literally been counting down the days to her birthday for weeks now, and so when it rolled…

The weekend was balmy.  Actually, it was hot and almost miserable, but we took advantage of that and went to the beach again.  I know it seems like we’re there all the time, but this time of year, with (my favorite) autumn season waiting to blow in, we have to…

We don’t subscribe to our local newspaper , or any newspaper actually, because I enjoy reading the newspaper online for free and absolutely hate how all that newsprint paper fills up our recycling bin when it just isn’t necessary.  However, for the past few days, the newspaper delivery person, who…

YaYa enjoys a sour, granny smith apple.  The other day, Dr. Peds purchased a bag of green granny smiths from the grocery store, but they are so sour that even YaYa has a hard time finishing one.  She still tries every once in a while though. Yesterday Squirmy toddled right…