Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Before I can tell you why Dot was laughing so much she was nearly crying, I need to tell you a few things about my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law is quite possibly the least greedy person you will ever meet.  She shares everything.  She models sharing to everyone.  She is always…

The weather has been warm enough to have the inside front door open many days this week.  I love coming down the stairs and having the front of the house bathed in warm afternoon light. I would LOVE to know how large globs of blue kid toothpaste ended up in…

There’s always a lot of excitement involved in a visit to Grandma Robbie’s house, and this visit was jam packed with all sorts of good things:  special cookies, dying Easter eggs, trips to the barn to see baby calves, very chilly and damp rides on the four wheeler in the…

Aaaaaahhh!  There’s just something so nice about watching your flesh and blood offspring toil doing the dishes at the very same sink and counter that you, yourself spent so many hours at doing dishes!  At our house loading and unloading the dishwasher largely falls into my own jurisdiction mostly because…

I’ve been terribly slow at editing all the pictures from our North Dakota trip.  One of the main reasons is that in addition to recovering from traveling (can we say laundry? suitcases to be unpacked? grouchy kids?) and getting everyone back into their school routine, I was gone for several…

The kidlets were very excited to visit Old Gramma.  They were particularly excited to walk over across the driveway from my parents’ house to Old Gramma’s house unsupervised.  In fact, they left and came back several times just because they could.  One afternoon my mom actually sent YaYa and The…

While we were in North Dakota, my friend Siri and I took a road trip north to visit my friend Rhonda, who recently had a baby.  It was a great trip.  Siri and I had so much fun chatting on the car ride, whieh involved quite a few detours because…

We had a super time visiting my nephew Jack and my brother and sister-in-law while we were in Bismarck.  To make things even more fun, my cousin Lisa, who lives just a few houses down the street from my brother came over too!  We ate pizza for supper and tried…

This last picture was supposed to be a “boy” picture but a couple of sneaky little sisters jumped in at the last minute!  We had a fantastic time staying overnight at the Penn home.  There were cookies, light saber battles, pancakes with syrup, bunk beds to sleep in (a very…

I have so many wonderful things to blog about our week in North Dakota visiting friends and family, but I’m actually going to start with the last part first, and get the traumatic part out of the way! Easter Sunday.  There was the usual drama of getting everyone ready.  There…