I’ve resigned myself to a lifetime of pictures where only two thirds (at most) of my children are smiling and looking at the camera. You’d think with a digital camera, I’d have a better chance of it, but nope – I have lots of duplicates of the three of them, in the same pose with …
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Oct 11
Sukkah building and apple picking, oh my
We’re embarking on our third of four Jewish holidays that fall, boom, boom, boom after one another in early fall. First we had the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, and the Yom Kippur. Now we’re starting on Sukkot and we’ll finish up with Simchat Torah. Sukkot is a cool holiday – we build a …
Oct 08
New Years Resolutions
It’s the Jewish New Year – or actually, it was the Jewish New Year last week, but I’m just now getting around to resolutions. As a convert Judaism, each year I have to relearn what each holiday is really about. Because each year, it seems to mean a little something different to me. This year, …
Oct 07
I left, and she cried until she vomited
I feel kind of like I’m in a relatively new stage of my life. With two kids in school and a toddler (who STILL stubbornly refuses to toddle) at home, my life is very different than it was when I had a kindergartner and a toddler at home, or a second grader, a preschooler still at home …
Oct 04
Bedtime Battles
Confession time here – I’m crap about putting my kids to bed. I like to cuddle them to bed. I just do. I nursed Sam until he was almost three and a half, and Jessie liked me to sing and read her to sleep. I just never got in the habit of shoving then into …
Oct 01
October Update
Starting from the top… Jessica is doing really well in third grade. She really likes her teacher and her papers coming home have been consistently in the 90-100 range. I’m really pleased by this – and have now decided to consider second grade just an aberration. I think the combination of it not being a …
Sep 26
Oddly enough
My life, in many ways, got easier once I had two kids in school. Suddenly we’re all organized and with a majority of kids on the same schedule, life is just easier. Bedtime is a breeze, no more battles to get Jess to sleep, Sam goes down by necessity earlier than she does. No real …
Sep 24
Checking in
All is delightful in my little world. Miss Jessie and Sam danced off to Hebrew School happily enough. There’s a famous quote by some rabbi that Marc quotes all the time, something about if you want a child to love Torah, give them candy. Which is a good theory – and I’m happy to report …
Sep 19
Thoughts from a newly freed mother
Mothering is obviously different for each mother and differenter (is that even a word??) for each child of each specific mother. My experiences mothering is different for each child. And while my love for each child is quantitatively the same for each one, the level of intensity seems different. The level of need of each …
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