Super Rachel Zana's Spot

During the month of June, all three kidlets are taking swimming lessons Monday through Thursday in the evenings.  It is a very big deal for Mr. Sneaky Pants and The Banana.  Mr. Sneaky Pants had swimming lessons in the fall and was quite the little fish.  He was supposed to…

I didn’t document any of my other pregnancies.  I’m not going to document very much of this one, but I have to post this picture that I just took in the bathroom because with this pregnancy I seem to forget about how big my belly is and I have actually…

It was a beautiful evening, with welcome sunshine after a few rainy days (we needed rain, but it’s always nice when the sun comes back out, too).  We loaded up the van with the kidlets, my camera and Dr. Peds threw in some food and charcoal.  He cooked supper while…

He’s convinced that if his hair grows long he will be super strong like Samson in the Bible.  So, I’m not allowed to come near him with my hair cutting scissors.  Things could be pretty shaggy by the end of the summer.

This smurf ring was mine when I was little.  I kept it in a little wooden jewelry box that had a drawer with a special cushion especially for rings.  A few months ago I was home visiting my parents, and my mom had found the jewelry box to show Ya…

The Banana has been fascinated with cameras for a long time.  Mr. SP and Ya Ya both have their own ancient low quality point and shoot digital cameras that they use, and she has been dying to have one of her own.  I’ve looked and looked and haven’t found any…

I know, I know, this breaks a whole bunch of photography rules.  Obviously it isn’t a good idea to have a large black rope blocking your child’s face from the lens, but there is just something about this one that I really love.  I was sitting in my hammock.  They…

She loves reading in bed in the evening, just like her Mama.  Actually, the whole family loves reading in bed.  It warms my heart so much, and I remember being so frustrated at my parents coming in to stop me from reading right when I got to a good part…

He was grumpy with me because I would not let him root around in Ya Ya’s gigantic cardboard creation mess that was taking up all of the office floor (she was building a series of 3-D store front property around a cardboard “block” so he begrudgingly agreed to make this…

Almost summer evenings spent hanging in a hammock from the crab apple tree with the scent of lilacs in the air:  everybody in the family loves a hammock.