Super Rachel Zana's Spot

We have a favorite candy shop, just a bit up the North Shore at Knife River.  Because we pretty much can’t contain ourselves when we go, I try to limit our visits there to one or two per summer and let us splurge when we do go.  All summer long…

I had completely forgotten about the hot air balloon festival this year.  Dr. Peds was driving home from a conference in the Cities, and when he got home he mentioned that the balloons were actually all standing up!  I grabbed the only kid home at the time (everyone else was…

Mr. Trouble on Feet and I were on a morning hike last Friday when we rounded the corner and saw this little guy chirping at us.  He was on a tree branch right next to the hiking path and didn’t really seem concerned that we were right there, other than…

While YaYa was at piano lessons we checked a few Little Free Libraries in her teacher’s neighborhood.  We love the design of this particular library, and found a couple of treasures inside.  

The Banana celebrated a birthday last Tuesday.  I began the day hours before sunrise because I had a few preparations to take care of, like cooking special food that was requested to go into the birthday girl’s lunch box, baking a birthday cake, wrapping some presents, and getting the table…

He has been waiting for the first day of preschool since the last day of preschool last spring.  It was tough having a week when everyone else went to elementary school, and there was no preschool.  (Although I really liked spending that week with him!) He loves every bit of…

After arriving home from camping and unpacking, some homework and practicing was completed before we ate with our neighbors halfway down the street.  After the food was eaten we headed down to the beach for a quick trip before the sun set and the kidlets needed to hop in bed…

Squeezed in our van for a five hour drive to southern Minnesota:  six people, their clothes packed in six backpacks,, blankets, pillows, sleeping bags and mats, a tent, a cooler, a basket of food, four camping chairs, two totes of camping supplies,  a water jug, extra blankets because it was…

Inside Forestville State Park is the Minnesota Historical Society’s restored village.    The kidlets were really excited about the prospect of visiting another Minnesota Historical Society site after having just been to Split Rock.  They also have great memories of the Forest History Center in Grand Rapids.  All of these places have…

We spent the weekend in southern Minnesota at Forestville State Park  with Auntie Dot and her crew.  Forestville State Park was not a place on my radar at all.  Auntie Dot came up with the idea of meeting there, and before I thought too much about what it would mean…