Super Rachel Zana's Spot

After lunch, Sarah hopped on the bus for school. The Banana was napping in her crib. My husband built a blanket fort downstairs in the family room for Mr. Sneaky Pants. He decided to have a bath, and Mr. Sneaky Pants was playing so nicely with the blanket fort while…

After using the rocky shoreline as a natural jungle gym, Mr. Sneaky Pants and Sarah were starving, and we were all in the mood for pizza, so we drove down to Old Chicago to try out their pizza selection. Perhaps because there is no school tomorrow, everyone else seemed to…

It has been raining and raining again, which I love. Yet, after awhile, we all seem to get a little cooped up, so when the rain finally temporarily stopped this afternoon, we packed up the minivan and drove down to the rocky beach at the edge of town. Mr. Sneaky…

Prior to leaving for a meeting at church this morning, Mr. Sneaky Pants had an exploding diaper. While I was busy cleaning up that stinky mess, The Banana busied herself with locating the open bathroom door and toilet inside. She found great entertainment playing with a washcloth in the toilet…

While my husband was away this weekend, I recruited some small familiy members to help pack some of our leaves into the yard waste bin. I had The Banana on my back, and while they cooked up a lovely batch of mud soup, dirt coffee, and rotten-green salad, complete with…

Mr. Sneaky Pants is in a terrible transition right now, the move from needing a long afternoon nap and needing a quiet play time in the early afternoon. If he takes a nap, he can’t fall asleep at night. If he doesn’t fall asleep at nap, he completely looses it…

It’s been almost one month since I took the kids hiking for The Banana’s birthday and fell down a flight of stone steps on the hiking trail, scraping all the skin off my lower legs and bruising my knees. Those wounds have healed very nicely. On Friday afternoon, in the…

Sarah came home from school on Friday with her front bottom tooth hanging on by a string only. I mentioned to her that she would probably loose the tooth by morning, which was a very exciting proposition for her. For supper we had eggs and toast, and after cleaning her…

On Sunday morning I played the prelude for the worship service at our church. That means I had to be up at 5:30 a.m. to get everyone ready and in the car so we could get to the church by 7:45 a.m. This wasn’t terrible, but no matter what planning…

We had a wonderful time outside this beautiful autumn afternoon. I was trying to take some specific pictures in a specific spot of my yard because the light was amazing. NONE of them turned out the way I wanted them to. But, as usual, when I opened up the stack…