Super Rachel Zana's Spot

It’s become an annual tradition to take a few portraits of The Banana when the rhododendron blooms. The bush grows more astonishing every year, with all of its fluffy purple goodness. It is so ridiculously glorious that a kindergarten piano student walked in on Monday and asked, “Are the flowers…

It had been a rainy morning and afternoon, and we were ready to get out of the house, so I dressed Peanut Maximus in his terrific rainsuit that YaYa found in a thrift store in Colorado. We went for a stroller ride through the forest on the wide trail that…

I had a great vision of reading poems out loud to my kidlets almost every day for National Poetry month. Sadly, that did not happen. However, the front of the fridge is filled with fresh magnetic poetry, and some of those poems are still in progress. I wrote a few…

He had the best time with a basket of markers and a big piece of paper that covered the activity table. Now I have a great piece of wrapping paper! I love how even though the paper was gigantic, he spent at least three quarters of his time covering just…

When I’m practicing during the day, he puts his picture books on the music rack and “plays” them along side me. He stands on a chair next to the bench or on the student footstool. He takes the used student sticky notes out of the recycling basket and sticks them…

He’s learning new words every day. My current favorites are “toast” and “noodles,” which comes out like “doodles.” He’s working on learning the names of people in our family. (The Banana was the first official name he said, which she was very excited about!) I love hearing his adorable little…

The past few autumn seasons I have planted a bag of crocus bulbs on the south facing hill in our yard from the driveway to the Little Free Library on the corner, and this spring those crocus blooms, along with some others in the backyard that have been established for…