Super Rachel Zana's Spot

. These are two snaps of Destructoman that I am really enjoying. We’ll be away from home this weekend. We’re taking a little trip to Iowa to visit family. I plan on taking oodles of pictures while I’m there. Ms. Crazy Preschooler is very excited to see her cousins and…

Together on the floor while Ms. Crazy Preschooler was at preschool.

This week Destructoman has moved from the high chair, that nicely confined eating space, to a booster seat at the table. Things have gone fairly well. First of all, by some divine miracle, I’ve managed to keep the table clean enough for two kids to actually eat at it. I’ve…

You can’t live in central Wisconsin and escape cheese curds. Even if you move here somewhat murky on exactly what cheese curds are, you will in a short time grow to adore those tasty little white bumps because they are so readily available, and so squeaky clean fresh. Someone brought…

In addition to having had a brief case of flu and getting over it, I’ve been getting ready to teach preschool and toddler music and movement classes that started last Monday and Tuesday. Every time I’m in the middle of writing out curricula half of me wonders WHAT I am…

I’ve been dealing with a minor bout of a flulike illness the last couple of days, so instead of staying up until all hours of the night working on household chores and having fun with the computer, I’ve been going to bed like a normal person in hopes of catching…

On Sunday afternoon I planned to take a brisk walk with my two youngest kidlets secure in their stroller as soon as Destructoman woke up from his nap. However, with my luck, it began to precipitate furiously for a brief time. So I decided to cook up some of my…

The other day Ms. Crazy Preschooler and I sorted through our crayons and picked out the broken ones. We placed them in muffin tins according to color and melted them on the stove into pools of wax in bright hues, and then we painted with the melted wax. At first…