Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The Banana has been tickled with the leaves that have fallen on the sidewalk.  She likes zooming down the hill on her plastic foot bike and crashing into a pile at the corner of the sidewalk, where I have plopped myself to make sure that non of my children miscalculate…

One growing boy.  One  well-loved Big Wheel bicycle, courtesy of a dad who couldn't resist giving his son the opportunity to scoot around like he did.  One superhero cape poorly sewn by a non-sewing mom.  One gleeful ride down the sidewalk.  

We were so thrilled to be able to have our good friends from residency in Wisconsin come and visit us from the great state of Montana.  Our two nights and one full day with them were spent in fantastic conversation, and sprinkled with lots of fun kid activities.  We played…

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…