Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Mr. Sneaky Pants celebrated his half birthday last Tuesday.  There was a special trip to the bread store to pick out a caramel roll for an after lunch treat.  Mr. SP was very excited to not have to do any cleaning on his half birthday . . . the absence…

All afternoon Brutus had been acting a bit strange, but it wasn’t until 9:30 in the evening that I realized that something was definitely wrong.  The cat was in pain, and not happy.  He wasn’t moving his tail, so I thought maybe he had gotten into trouble with another cat…

Summertime humidity has arrived, and with it has come the return of curly haired kids!  I do love curly hair.  I wish I had curls  of my own. It has been a rough couple of weeks around here due to the extended stay of a couple of  not-so-welcome viruses.  The…

YaYa was sitting at the table reading a magazine.  I was in the kitchen with a glass of milk. YaYa:  Mom, exactly how much do you weigh? Me:  Uhm, why do you need to know? YaYa:  Well, I want to compare you to some harbor seals. Me:  (spitting out my…

They are different, and alike.  They are pests to each other, and then they play nicely.  They tattle on each other profusely, and then they collaborate (usually against me).  They hate sharing a room, and yet they love it.  They think bunk beds would be great.  I’m not so sure.…

It really stinks when your mother sends you back to the top of the bridge because you just can’t manage to keep your tennis shoes out of the creek while your big sister collects pond water for the crayfish at school.  That bubbling water is just so irresistible.  And there…

Rock knob is such a great easy, relatively short hike:  perfect for a spring evening when you don’t have a lot of time, but your kids need to do something outside.  This is one of my very favorite times to hike in the forest.  There are hardly any bugs, and…

It turns out he LOVES taking a bath.  The Banana and Mr. SP were decidedly less enthusiastic about bath taking at this stage, but YaYa was just like Squirmy.  When he hears the water running, he wants to be IN the bathroom.  If the bathwater belongs to someone else, he…

YaYa has been busy begging for jars, designing luxury residences for slugs, and then searching under rocks, plants, mats, and bricks for slugs to inhabit the house.  This particular apartment had a green sunroof and formal garden.  I love that my girl is willing to walk all around the yard…

There was some concern, since we wouldn’t be staying at Grandma Kathy’s real house, that we would miss the horses.  However, it turned out that there were plenty of friendly horses in the pasture right next to the trailer house, and although the kidlets didn’t get to do chores with…