Super Rachel Zana's Spot

I think I might have been about four and a half, or maybe five and a half, and here I am trick or treating at Grandma Jan and Papa’s house. This was one of my very favorite Halloween costumes! My mom made the Big Bird costume. She is an amazing…

She ate ice cream in the front yard, and Peanut Maximus zoomed around her on his balance bike.

She came home from college for fall break and cleaned the mold off her shoes. Seriously. She did some other things too, of course. There were shopping trips with her sister, movies to watch with her brother, and plenty of sibling shenanigans involving four of the five kidlets in the…

I’m usually up early. He’s usually up early. But today I actually didn’t have to be up early. He was still up early, so he crawled into my bed for a minute, asking me repeatedly to get up and make him breakfast. The sun was not anywhere close to being…

YaYa is here for a visit, and it just worked out that last Friday I did not have anything on the schedule, not even transportation for Mr. TOF and his various activities. For weeks I had been wanting to drive over to Bayfield to procure apples, so we decided to…

During rowing season, if a member of the rowing club ergs a 2K time of under 8 minutes for girls, and under 7 minutes for boys, they are recognized with a special award. It’s super hard to get those times, and it’s a big deal when it happens. The Banana…

Cars! Cars! Cars! It’s cars, all day every day around here, and whole worlds are built for the car collection. Every car is its own character, and all the cars are full of drama. I love all the building that is happening: wooden blocks, kappa blocks, magnatiles, rainbow tunnels. There…

It’s always nice to lunch with a friend.