Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Today The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants and I went to the grocery store after music class.  We were thrilled to find lots of brown paper sacks of “banana bread bananas.”  You know, the speckled and freckled bananas that are dumped in brown paper sacks and sold at an extreme…

“Mama, I HATE that I’m getting old because now no one can answer ANY of my questions!”   She was grouchy that she had asked me about ten questions in the last two days that I just didn’t have answers for. The questions were along the lines of, “Mama, how…

They actually give each other nose kisses.  It’s true.  They’ll rub and snuggle and purr and ooooh and ahhhhh at each other until Brutus gets fed up with all that smothering love and scares Mr. SP with his fangs.  Then they go their separate ways for approximately 5 minutes before…

I arrived home after a purely glorious late afternoon walk down to some of my favorite waterfalls, which were rushing with more gusto than I’d ever seen them before, truly a sight to behold.  On the deck I found carpenters busy at work with hammers and nails, making their own…

It was The Banana’s half birthday on Monday, and I cannot even tell you how excited she was.  She told us all many times throughout the day how much she really did love birthdays, especially her own.  While she and Mr. Sneaky Pants were off to the doctor’s office for…

These Zoob blocks were really their Christmas present. but we were so overwhelmed with material items and traveling at Christmas that I decided to just wait and give it to them sometime later in the winter.  Since we were having an “at home” day for the most part on Saturday,…

Tonight I had a choir concert, the last in a series of three concerts that have been happening the last three nights.  Before the concert, we walked Ya Ya up the street so she could have a sleepover at her friend’s house.  We were one our way home back down…

Here’s the latest Roman soldier costume.  He’s been all about Roman soldiers since last summer when our church did a vacation Bible School week that was centered on culture in Rome and the Apostle Paul.  There were teenage boys dressed up like Roman soldiers roaming around the church, and that…

The weather has been amazing.  On Saturday Mr. Sneaky pants decided to wear his baklava, even though it was warm enough to be outside with only a sweater, because the baklava makes him look much more like a knight.  He grabbed the bow and arrow that Grandma Robbie make him…

It was late on the very last night of my stay in California, and we were due to leave early the next morning to get to the airport.  Siri and I decided it was time to turn into bed.  I made my way up the stairs to her guest bedroom,…