Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Because of the Great Christmas Blizzard, there were a lot of family members I missed seeing in North Dakota:  my cousins, my aunts and uncles, and some friends too.  On top of that, I was sick, sick, SICK!  A lot of the time I didn't feel up to even picking…

The luggage that we need to cram into the car is taking up 1/3 of the floor space in our family room.  The cat has a very clean litter box, three bowls of food and two bowls of water.  The fish is munching on food.  The Christmas paraphanelia coming with…

To keep little hands busy while I was running around getting ready for my concert last Friday, I set the kidlets up with some cloves and oranges.  They started poking cloves into the oranges, and I got my hair curled. (I only do that about six times a year, for…

It's been a bit hectic around here the past week:  concerts, more concerts, and a few recitals for my students thrown into the mix.  On Thursday, Friday and twice on Saturday I had concerts with the Arrowhead Chorale.  Dr. Peds was on call, so our super duper amazing babysitter, Sophie,…

We snuck in an hour of great sledding right after school with our good friends from up the street at the top of the hill.  We loaded everybody up and headed to a perfect kid sized hill at the university that spills out onto a frozen pond.  Everyone had a…

This is just a quick snapshot that I very sneakily took in church yesterday morning before YaYa sang by herself.  The children's choir had their Christmas Program and sang at both worship services.  Sarah sang a solo in one of the songs.  She did beautifully.  She learned the whole thing…

My Auntie Joni sent this picture of Gramma Jan and me in my Christmas card this year.  I am so excited to have it.    

I've been baking cookies, lots and lots of cookies all day.  There are a lot of things happening next week that I need to bring cookies to.  I'm covered in flour, sprinkles, frosting, chocolate, and sticky stuff.  My kitchen is such a disaster that I don't even want to go…

We're not big sports fans around here, but a few weeks ago Dr. Peds bought some hockey tickets at a silent auction to see UMD play UND.  He though Mr. Sneaky Pants would enjoy going along.  The morning of the hockey game, I told Mr. SP about where he could…

Ya Ya won second place in the PTA contest for a story that she wrote.  You might recall a few weeks ago that she was working on a story entitled "Beauty is a Princess Who Doesn't Have to Eat her Peas."  It ended up to be quite a story.  I'd…