Super Rachel Zana's Spot

On Tuesday at noon I was in tears, trying to wrap up Christmas presents to mail and fit them into oversize boxes for my husband to take to the post office.  It’s not that I don’t like giving people presents.  That’s hardly the case at all.  I’m happy to give…

Our Christmas tree is not up.  Most of our Christmas decorations are still in the attic.  It’s just how this holiday season is going.  We missed getting a tree from the forest we usually go to each December when we were in North Dakota.  We’ve been looking at several different…

We recently read the book Clementine by Sara Pennypacker.  I think it is the second or maybe even the third time I’ve read the book out loud to the kidlets, and Ya Ya has read it a few times more to herself.  It’s a great book.  We really love Sara…

My mother-in-law grows a garden each summer.  In it are vegetables, like delicious cucumbers and crisp, sweet carrots, and cutting flowers that she picks and arranges to take to people to brighten their day.  After learning about our carrot harvest disaster of 2009, this year she decided to plant extra…

Cousins.  Sometimes they are cause  for the employment of that first class secret weapon:  projectile vomit of stinky curdled milk.

We were in North Dakota over the weekend.  It was a 50 hour trip.  I did not know why we were making this 50 hour trip to North Dakota in December, and quite frankly I was pretty skeptical about the idea.  In fact, I was pretty grouchy about the idea.…

Pigtails . . . fresh from the shower.  Oh how we love them around here!  The Banana likes them because they are fun.  The Mama likes them because they are are so stinking cute, the way they just curl right up in a little spiral, and then dry so soft…

Squirmy LOVES a face to play with.  He likes kid faces, dad faces, mom faces.  Faces make my little guy happy and he bestows upon them his hugest, slobbery toothless grin, the kind of grin that sort of looks like a dinosaur about to devour its prey, if dinosaurs actually…

While I cooked Thanksgiving dinner the kidlets set up a school in the piano living room.  Guess who was the teacher? She had a wonderful time being in charge, and her patient students were very obedient, which is why playing school was an activity that lasted several hours.  The students…