Super Rachel Zana's Spot

We were blessed with so many apples this fall, and I’ve been loving applesauce. My husband bought a new knife (with a purple handle!) that has proven to be the perfect knife for cutting hundreds and hundreds of apples. It’s also a great season for pears! A perfectly ripe pear…

Putting a warm rice bag under my coat makes me feel so cozy while I’m sitting in the car waiting for the resident oboist at her Wednesday afternoon lesson. I learned that I do not know how to successfully navigate music stand extenders after last Wednesday’s violin/viola/harp recital when I…

When I was in third grade, we learned about North Dakota in our social studies class. One of my favorite days of third grade was the day when our teacher gave us each a cardboard piece cut in the shape of North Dakota and a big bowl of salt dough.…

The applesauce is made! We were blessed with three totes of apples from a friend’s apple tree along with a couple of bags of apples from other friends and neighbors, which made for a lot of applesauce! Over the past two weekends I spent many hours cooking and straining apples,…

Yesterday I saw a post on social media from a mom I know from church. Her daughter had a school assignment that asked her to write the four phrases she heard most in her house, and the daughter wrote lovely things like, “I love you; I’m proud of you; please…

When it snowed a couple of weeks ago before we had even had a frost, I groaned, thinking for sure that all the leaves on the trees would not even get a chance to turn before they shriveled up brown and dropped to the soggy ground. But strangely enough, even…

Currently the family room is covered in Legos. Over the weekend these two kidlets started building castles, houses, and Lego scenes of every kind. The Banana joined in now and then as well. There are Legos on blankets, Legos on the activity table, Legos under the couch, on the couch,…

Ahhh. A toasty fire. A peaceful harp. It all makes for a nice day in the living room.