I’m so excited to be a part of the Ultimate Blog Party! My name is Melissa, and I’m a happily married mom of three, and stepmom of two. My stepdaughters are Lilli (14) and Sarah (12). My daughter Jessica is ten, my son Sam is 6 and my baby girl is turning three (insert dramatic …
Monthly Archive: April 2013
Apr 11
BlogLovin
<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/6956307/?claim=bfdqraw6fwc”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Does anyone else use this? Have a blog I can follow?
Apr 10
Way Back Wednesday
I still remember this night so clearly – and am profoundly grateful, after reading about this week from last April, that we haven’t experienced the hell that is the stomach flu again… There’s something magical about nighttime parenting. Something elemental and bare bones about it, when it’s the middle of the night, and your child …
Apr 10
Domesticity and kids catch up…
Today’s my catch up day. I’m making chocolate chip cookies, because I’m out and have somehow fallen into the routine of constantly having homemade cookies in the house. And bread – because why not? Right? It’s super easy to make and I doubled the recipe and will be having some homemade pizza for lunch as …
Apr 05
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)
Yom HaShoah starts on Sunday night and ends on Monday at sundown. I haven’t taught the kids about the Holocaust yet. Other than in the most general of terms – they know about WWII, and they know that Hitler and the Nazis were terrible, terrible people, and they did awful things to the Jews. They …
Apr 04
Recognize the Crazy
It’s my new catch phrase. I use it whenever one of the kids starts to go a little nuts. Freaking out over a ponytail is my latest example. This morning was going great, everyone was up and happy and content. Sam got dressed, ate, did everything he was supposed to do with a smile, Julianna …
Apr 03
Way Back Wednesday!
(Julianna will be three years old at the end of the month, and I can’t believe that she’s so big. This post (from the end of May, 2010) made me a little misty, because she was so little – and it seems like it was yesterday) My last little baby girl is four weeks old …
Apr 02
Happy, happy, happy
I’m having a delightful sort of day. You know how some mornings, things just work? Today was one of those days. Both the older kids bopped out of bed cheerfully and content. Ate their breakfast (Jessie is still keeping kosher for Passover, refused the non k for p cereal her brother was having) and I …
Apr 01
Back to normal
Passover is over. Well, it’s not over until tomorrow night, but for all intents and purposes, it’s over for me. Tonight, we’re having beans and hot dogs, a hugely popular meal that doesn’t involve any bread on a non-Passover day. We survived Easter too – it’s not a great holiday for me. Not because of …
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