Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Today I experimented with baking these little loaves of honey oatmeal bread. On Friday Sarah is going to give her two preschool teachers a little bucket with some strawberry freezer jam and a couple of little loaves of diffrent kinds of bread for a Christmas gift. All day long Mr.…

Ms. Crazy Preschooler to Elizabeth the babysitter: “I love you more than pennies.”

If you haven’t ever played with goop (cornstarch and water) before, you need to. Every once in awhile I purchase a 64 cent box of generic cornstarch at Walmart whip up a batch of goop, that lovely material that’s neither a liquid or a solid. My kids love it, and…

I’m about to start draft three of our family Christmas letter. The first one I trashed because it just wasn’t working. The second one I finished and just was about to print it out, but I wasn’t feeling good about it and had my husband read it. His comment summed…

This cute little creature is what my husband surprised me with for my birthday and Christmas put together present. I’m pretty excited. I named it Claire and spent the better part of Sunday at my computer importing music. What’s on my ipod, you wonder? A little Gerald Finzi for clarinet…

Dr. Pediatrician took this picture last night while I was sleeping, obviously. The Banana is fussy in the evenings, which is the time of day that I really expect to be able to get things done after Mr. Destructoman and Ms. Crazy Preschooler are tucked into their cozy beds. The…

Ms. CP: “Look at me squeeze through this crack in the door Mom. I can do that because I’m thin. . . ” (She Looks at me in the mirror while I comb her hair) “But you’re more thick, Mom.” Ms. CP: (After telling me a big long, long story…

There are more than thirty of these pictures that turned out. I love them all.

We started the day out with the messy affiar of chocolate chip banana muffins in the bathtub. Breakfast in the bathtub is our family tradition on birthdays, so Ms. Crazy Preschooler and I got up before sunrise to bake yummy muffins for the special affair. You should have seen the…

Although I can’t post a lot of the pictures I took during Thanksgiving, which we spent with friends this year, because they are of kids that are not mine and I don’t have a release, here are a couple pictures: This is the small kids table. We dined at three…