Super Rachel Zana's Spot

After playing hard at the park on a hot summer Saturday night, these three requested a brief stop at the sand beach on the way home.  Well, actually the eldest two requested it.  The youngest was to grouchy from being too hot to do anything but thrash her stocky body…

Flying Leaps are this superhero’s specialty.

Yesterday morning at 11:30 a.m. I was cooking a batch of delicious whole wheat noodles to be topped with shredded sharp cheddar cheese. Sarah came screeching around the dining room corner into the kitchen.  Sarah: Mom! Noah was going to the bathroom on the diaper pail. Me: Huh? Sarah: He…

These are my mom’s favorite kind of flowers (to my knowledge, anyway) and whenever we see shasta daisies, we always think of her.  I even have the kidlets trained to search them out.  They call them “Gramma Robbie flowers.”  Right now shasta daisies are growing at such prolific rates they…

Because The Banana has been battling a nasty something (virus? teething?  I’m not sure what . . . but it’s really putting her under the weather) I was not able to attend my usual Wednesday Bible Study today.  That turned out fine, because Dr. Peds was flying to Denver to…

This morning I was lounging about on the daybed in my office, snuggling a sick Banana, when in bounded Sarah, announcing in a strong voice, “I really want a Crusade sweater.”  “A what?”  “A Crusade Sweater!”  “I’m not exactly sure what you mean.”  “A Crusade Sweater! A Crusade Sweater! You…

After an extremely wet and foggy morning and early afternoon, Sarah was a little spastic and in need of some fresh air, so she, The Banana and I took a little outing to the rocky beach, while Mr. Sneaky Pants, who was feeling a little under the weather, stayed with…

How To Correctly Pronounce “Pacific Ocean” according to Mr. Sneaky Pants: “Specifica Sea.” It has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it?

The people who lived in our house before we bought it really, really loved day lillies.  We have oodles and oodles of them off the side of our house,  practically a field of daylillies, and the first ones are opening today.  

On warm summer afternoons, slurping frozen orange juice on a stick is the snack of choice around here.  I just freeze regular old orange juice in plastic popsicle molds ahead of time, and voila!  Happiness galore upon rising from afternoon naps.  I remember my grandmother coloring water with food coloring…