Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Egads!  My baby is only going to be a true authentic baby for ONE more day.  What am I going to do?  I think I  need six more babies (except they all wouldn’t fit in my van, and the prospect of me driving something even bigger than my van would…

Mr. SP is licking his yogurt cup and says to me, “I really wish all the grass on the ground were green gummy worms and all the leaves on the trees were gummy vitamins, and in the winter it would be really great if all the snow was ice cream.…

I have been meaning to have the kidlets do a marshmallow construction project for quite some time now, but I never remembered to buy the marshmallows when I was at the grocery store.  We usually have some sort of marshmallows around for spontaneous Smore-making activitites, but there are rarely enough…

If you had seen the innocent enthusiasm of this almost toddler pulling one tissue after the next out of the box in rapid succession, you would have just let him keep going too, I know it.  Every gesture he made was filled with glee.  He threw tissues at the cat.…

When I discovered, several months before our trip to Yellowstone, that it was already far too late to make any kind of reservations for lodging within Yellowstone, I decided to try for a location in between Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, and lo and behold, I miraculously found a place…

Squirmy hates grass.  He really, really hates grass.  He hates grass so much that if you put him on a blanket in a sea of grass, he will not ever leave the blanket.  It’s as though the blanket sprouted walls and bars and turned into a county jail.  For now,…

It turned out that the road we planned on taking into Yellowstone’s Northeast entrance was washed out from a flooding river, so we actually spent the first day we planned on being in Yellowstone driving all the way to Cody, WY and coming in the east entrance.  By the time…

After waking up and eating breakfast, The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants spent the next couple of hours asking me  every ten minutes if it was time to go down to the corner for the Fourth of July Kid Parade yet.  The Fourth of July Kid Parade is a neighborhood…

The real reason we went on vacation was to see our Montana friends, one of the families that we grew close to during residency in Wisconsin.  Both of our families were in the muck of residency together, although in different programs, and we also went to the same church and…

On our first night of traveling we stayed at a hotel in Bismarck.  Grandma Robbie and Grandpa Ron were able to come for just a bit to watch the kidlets expend massive amounts of cooped up energy in the pool that evening. The next morning, after a delicious hotel breakfast,…