Super Rachel Zana's Spot

The weather has been frigid. Today after taking off all of her winter outerwear, Sarah looked at me and stated calmly, “I’m colder than a ball of slime.”

Yesterday I rediscovered that flower arranging is not one of my talents. I had been dreading going to the MOPS meeting for several weeks because on the schedule was: “bring your own vase and make a special Christmas Centerpiece for your table.” My anti-domestic stomach was queasy just reading those…

Yesterday morning I was awakened by a wailing Mr. Sneaky Pants. Waaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaah! He had a soak-through in his pullup during the night, and was throwing a fit about that. Then he threw a fit about having to put his pajamas in the laundry shoot because they were soaking wet.…

This morning: Sarah: At church last night we were doing the letter S page for our book, and they put my name up on the bullitan board! Mr. Sneaky Pants: Why? Me: Because Sarah begins with an “S”. SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSarah. Like Noah begins with an NNNNNNNNNNN . . . “N.” Mr.…

On Saturday we had a major snowstorm that dumped more than a foot of snow around our yard. Because I love fresh snow, I was very excited about this! I am also very thankful that we have a snowblower. Even with the snowblower it took my husband several hours to…

We are HUGE fans of the Sesame Street Word on the Street podcast on itunes around here. Each week we download a new five minute episode. Five minutes is the perfect amount of time for a little video treat, and I’ve always been a great fan of Sesame Street, even…

In conjunction with her extreme love of outerwear, The Banana also really loves wearing things on her head. One of her favorite games is “put the hat on, take the hat off” which we play relentlessly until I am so tired of putting the hat back on her head that…

We like to call this “space alien hair.”

The more than 75 year old windows in the sunroom upstairs where my computer is desperately need to be replaced. We’re having a cold snap in Minnesota right now, evidence of which is the beautiful artistic frost paintings on our windows in the sunroom. (The sunroom roasts in the summer…

I’ve been busy taking pictures to try to use for my Christmas cards. These are all images that did not make the card. I actually like some of them better than the images on the card, but for various reasons they didn’t fit with the other images on the card…