Super Rachel Zana's Spot

One of the features of our house that I have been most excited about is the laundry shoot. The little door sits in the hallway between the bedrooms on the second floor, and the shaft drops the laundry down two stories to the middle of the basement (it lands in…

All of the sudden, this little guy has become a reader. In the last few weeks he is just soaking up children’s picture books. I love snuggling next to him and reading, especially since for the first 22 months of his life he wanted nothing to do with books. In…

We took a trip to the children’s museum this morning because it was a little rainy out, and very, very wet. The main exhibit right now was all about shoes. It was so neat. There was a giant walk-in playhouse fashioned like the old woman in the shoe might have…

At the crack of dawn this morning: Mr. Perpetual Mess (from his bed): Mom! Mama! Mommy! MOM! Me: What? (spoken groggily, oh so groggily from my bedroom) Mr. PM: Want to get out! Me: Honey, you can get out of bed. I took down your gate. Mr. PM: Can’t. Can’t…

Books. They get me in trouble. I haven’t splurged on a nighttime read of a good book for at least two months now because of the mess of moving. Yesterday I loaded everybody up in the minivan and we drove down to the main library, which has a huge youth…

While hiking on Friday I discovered these steps at a local park, and I couldn’t resist. The difficult thing was not keeping The Banana on the steps like I thought it would be, but rather keepign the rocks out of her chunky little grip so she didn’t eat them.

The weather was beautiful yesterday. We went hiking at a local park along a small river. I love the sound of rushing water. The air smelled so wonderful because the forest had many enormous century-old cedar trees.