Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Look what Mr. Sneaky Pants did on the long car drive home from North Dakota last weekend.  I unfortunately didn't know that the coloring book Grandma Robbie gave him had a sheet of stickers in the middle of it.  Oh Joy.  

Last summer I broke down and purchased a BUNCH of Kapla Blocks.  I knew my little builders, especially Sarah, would love them.  They do!  Especially Sarah.  While I was busy trying to make my house appear like normal people live here in preparation for Grandma Robbie's weekend visit, Sarah spent all…

You'll have to forgive my frequent lack of blogging lately.  We took that wonderful trip to North Dakota, I've been scrambling to finish putting together a REALLY GREAT educational project that I am SO VERY EXCITED about and will tell you more about later this week, my mom and sister-in-law…

One summer day in 1989 (or so) my mother was having a very bad day.  And my brother and I were not cooperating peacefully to get the dinner dishes done.  There were a lot of dishes, as I remember it, because my dad had been working cattle or something, and…

Last Saturday I visited Jamestown College, where my husband and I met, and where I really became the kind of person I am today.  It was homecoming, and there was a reunion for choir members.  I almost didn't go, but I'm so very glad I did.  I saw so many neat…

I'm going to be traveling over the weekend with the kidlets.  Here are a few pictures of Mr. Sneaky Pants to tide you over until I return on Monday.  The evil, torturous mother that I am, I dressed him up in an itchy, scratchy sweater and bribed him to take…

The Banana has a way of just deciding that she is now more grown up than I think she ought to be.  For example, last summer, she crawled out of her crib at a much too early age, and took to sleeping in a toddler bed, or her big sister's…

My cousin Lisa was born when I was a spritely eight years old.  I was terribly excited that there was finally another girl in the family on my mom's side.  Even better, my aunt named her one of my favorite names:  Lisa, AND it turned out that she was born…

I was thrilled that my Auntie Nannie and my cousins decided travel my direction for their vacation this last week.  It's been years since anyone from my family besides my parents have visited me, and I just had a blast.  I had forgotten how funny my family can be.  At…

Yesterday I loaded up the kidlets and drove up to Lutsen, a ski resort on the North Shore.  Obviously we weren't skiing.  In fact, I simply don't ski.  Skiing would be bad news with my degree of uncoordination.  Instead, we took a gondola ride over to Moose Mountain to observe…