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Melissa Cohen

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Name: Melissa Cohen
Date registered: March 7, 2013
URL: http://www.melissaannecohen.com

Latest posts

  1. This is weird — January 10, 2024
  2. New Year, New Feet — January 6, 2024
  3. There is no stagnation — September 18, 2023
  4. Summer Camp — July 31, 2023
  5. I’m drowning — April 3, 2023

Most commented posts

  1. Jessie’s poem — 5 comments
  2. Ultimate Blog Party — 5 comments
  3. He sat on the rug — 4 comments
  4. Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) — 4 comments
  5. Head Injury — 4 comments

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Dec 07

10 Pregnancy Facts

1. Aimee was the one who suggested that it was possible that I might be pregnant, and I’ll never, ever forget that feeling when I looked at the calendar and realized that I actually might be.  We were in the kitchen in our old apartment on Harriman Court, and she was standing by the refrigerator.  I …

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Dec 03

Thanksgiving 2013

It was, in some ways, my best Thanksgiving ever.  In some ways, it was really the worst. It started out well.  Marc was working on the Wednesday before, so I took all three kids down to Pie Day II at my mother’s house.  We had already observed Pie Day I on the Sunday before Thanksgiving. …

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Dec 01

Repost from 2009

I started going back thru my old blog posts (really, that’s one of the major perks to having a blog, being able to go back and see where we were, and how much things have changed – and how much they haven’t).  In honor of today being December first – I thought I’d repost one …

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Nov 29

Growing Pains

My kids are growing up.  Each one,  in his/her own way, and sometimes it’s beautiful and sweet, and sometimes it’s wistful and kind of sad, and sometimes it’s just irritating and frustrating. We had a rough Thanksgiving, in a lot of ways.  (Future post to follow)  We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in a lot of …

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Nov 23

I’m not a hoarder

Although, as I type it, I’m realizing that if I feel as though I have to formally declare it – I’ve got a problem. But it’s not my fault.  Not entirely. I blame the kids. Of course.  And Marc.  The kids, because they believe that everything, absolutely everything, that they may have touched, played with, …

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Nov 18

November 18

It was twenty nine years ago that my grandmother passed away.  She was a smoker, and it was a long, slow, excruciating process, watching her die of lung cancer.   We had a hospital bed in the living room at their house, and I’ll never forget the way my mother and her siblings took care …

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Nov 12

Preschool Triumphs

My daughter loves preschool. And I couldn’t be happier. We had a very rough transition to preschool. She’s only three and a half, and there was a part of me that thought that she could wait and just have the one year of preschool before starting kindergarten. I had made a similar decision with my …

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Nov 11

Why I keep yelling at Jewish people

I’m not yelling at Jewish people.  Not really.  But I have been thinking a lot, lately, about all of the articles and columns and discussions that have been going on all over the place on the internet.  I’ve waded in on a few of them, and I know that I need to hold back.  Stop. …

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Nov 10

Saturday

Marc is working more and more on Saturdays now.  Which sucks, for me, on a couple of different levels.  One being that it’s Saturday, Shabbat, and I like to spend the day with him and the kids, and the other being that it’s Saturday, and he’s not here to help me with the kids.  I’m …

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Nov 05

Sick Baby

She’s not a baby anymore. Intellectually, I know that. She’s closer to four than three, has been potty trained for a year and a half, and is more than capable of carrying on in-depth conversations. But, she’s still my baby. And the reason I know that is that last night, she was up every hour. …

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