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Category Archive: Kids

Jul 02

Water Safety – It really does only take a second

(this is a repost from a few years ago, but totally worth repeating especially as summer gets underway) I hesitate to blog about this, simply because my mind is really avoiding going there, but the facts are that yesterday, we came within in minutes of Sam drowning. We were at a lake in one of the …

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Oct 08

Bedtime Champion

I’m awful at putting my kids to bed.  There, I’ve said it.  I like to think I’m pretty good at most of the mothering stuff.  I’m patient, pretty relaxed about most things.  I can bake really good cookies,  and get dinner on the table quickly and most of them eat it.  But I’ve never been …

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Jul 02

Three year olds and God

There’s something about that age, for my kids, anyway.  Three is where they start to get a concept of God – and I find it absolutely magical. When Jessica Mary was three, she was so fascinated by the concept of God that I started looking much more seriously at Judaism, because I wanted a strong …

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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 …

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Jan 04

how incredibly exciting

I’m so excited – got me my very own blog. I’ve been doing daily e-mails for everyone, but now I can just refer people to the blog :-). Spent all day making shabbat dinner, and am now no longer in the mood to celebrate. I did manage to talk Jess into cleaning up her bedroom …

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