Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Eating whole apples has been quite the rage around here. Usually I cut them into eighths with the apple cutter. The morning light downstairs was beautiful this morning, and Mr. Sneaky Pants was telling the robot in my camera all about his apple and his imaginary sick bluebird.

Greg has found an amazing bread store not far away. We are very excited about this, because ever since we moved away from Bismarck, we have all been missing The Bread Poets bakery terribly. Although I haven’t actually been in our local bread store, I CAN attest that the bread…

Upon clomping in the door after school yesterday, Sarah settled in at the table with a chocolate chip cookie. Usually I only convince them to have healthy snacks after school, but the cookies were very yummy, so they got to splurge a bit. She was full of stories about their…

It has been bone chilling cold. So cold, in fact, that I turned up the heat to 60 degrees to compensate for the lack of insulation in our house. On Sunday morning, when it got well below -20 degrees outside, our normal thermostat settings just weren’t cutting it, and I…

This weekend my husband gave the kids a snack of this weird chocolate cereal he bought at the grocery store. I think it might be Chocolate Pops or something like that. The cereal is totally gross, but to make it even more disgusting, we turned around and notieced that Sarah…

I found this drawing by Sarah in the entryway this morning when I went to get her backpack for school. I was so incredibly impressed! Although she was planning on giving it to her art teacher at school, I raved so much about it she decided I could keep it,…

Taking a cue from her big brother, The Banana snatched a banana off the edge of the kitchen counter today when I had my head turned east rather than west. I hadn’t heard from her for several minutes, and was just realizing things had been mysteriously quiet, when Sarah came…

It’s cold. It is so cold here, in fact, that I actually turned up my thermostat four degrees to compensate for the negative 60 degree windchill the west side of our house is battling. Needless to say, we are cooped up inside. And to make matters all the more crazy,…

I recently had the opportunity to swtich bass clarinets, from my old bass clarinet to a new one. I am so, so thrilled. The bass clarinet is probably my very favorite instrument to play, and I was feeling so frustrated with my old instrument because it had some serious limitations…

Yesterday morning Sarah decided she would have a tea party breakfast. This involved placing Cheerios, dehydrated apple rings, and a few chocolate chips on the tiny tin plates that came with her tea set. She poured lukewarm water out of her teapot into the little tea cups, and ran back…