Super Rachel Zana's Spot

  You might recall from previous years that when we get together at the cabin, there is usually an evening pontoon ride.  The pontoon is rickety, worn out, a well-loved hunk of junk.  Every year I get on this pontoon, which looks substantially worse in comparison to the year before,…

It is a family tradition to have fancy Smores at the cabin.  Auntie Dot usually spearheads the effort and brings all sorts of yummy supplies to the campfire.  Unfortunately Auntie Dot was not able to share our cabin weekend with us this year (along with grandma and all those little…

  After delivering The Banana and Mr. TOF to Grandma Kathy, who was on her way for a week of camping in the Badlands with Mr. SP, Auntie Dot, and the small cousins, we spent a few days at the family lake cabin, and were joined by the big cousins…

Because sometimes teenagers are just . . . weird.  I love that about teenagers. In fact, I loved being a quirky, weird teenager.

Here’s a kidlet who I haven’t seen for three weeks because he was at music camp and then visited his grandparents.  He grew even more when he was away and came back sunburned, but happy.  (Being in control of the remote control at Grandma’s, as pictured above, also makes him…

The long driveway on Grandma and Grandpa’s farm is the perfect place to try driving for first time.  Yay!

My neighbor is a vet, and she has beautiful dogs.  My kidlets love to play with the dogs, especially our host child.   Last week they played fetch for what seemed like hours, so around supper time I called all the kidlets over and told them it was time to…

I’m only able to post a few pictures from our chilly evening on the windswept Secret Beach because of course most of the images include our host child.  The fall and spring windstorms on the Lake swept in a lot of beach glass, so searching in the rocks has been…

I learned that taking my two middle kidlets to the grocery store late at night can easily turn into a wild, hilarious affair!  It seems almost a little weird that taking my kids to the grocery store is not a taxing ordeal like it used to be.  It’s actually pretty…

The Banana is turning into a strong swimmer (she has an amazing butterfly stroke . . . I love watching it).  Last summer we didn’t have a chance to do swimming lessons, so this summer we jumped right in at the beginning of the summer when we had a few…