Express Yourself: Reveal Rather Than Mask
Since the age of two, my four-year-old daughter has been obsessed with Spiderman. On rainy days, she proudly sports her Spiderman umbrella, her last two birthday cakes have both featured Spiderman, and given an opportunity to dress up (either at home, a friend’s house, or at a gymboree), she will opt for the Spiderman/superhero costume [...]
Imma – music to my ears
I am ashamed to say that often, when I hear the call, “Imma,” from my two girls, I tense up. It is as if, on some level, I resent their encroachment upon my time, my peace, my quiet, my thoughts. When I stop, in the quiet of the day when they are at gan, or [...]
What ever made me think I could drive in this country – Part II
The inside of my head feels like a construction site today. And just yesterday I was thinking to myself (I was smart enough not to voice this thought out loud in case I gave myself an ayin hara) how nice it is that I have not been sick for a while. Seemingly, it isn’t enough to ward [...]
A catalogue of car woes – is someone trying to tell me something?
Sometimes I wonder if it just isn’t meant to be. Me. Driving. Behind the wheel. As of today, I am now back behind the wheel. Now that my three-month period of being an intolerable backseat driver has drawn to a close (my poor long-suffering husband!), I can “talk” about the experience with some degree of perspective. In [...]
Learning to recognize the signs…
Since July, I have basically stopped blogging. I didn’t feel that I had anything to say, and I figured that a very telling sign that it was time to give it up was the fact that I had to think hard about what to write about, and if you have to dig deep and think about [...]
Are you a noisy eater?
It doesn’t matter where – sitting on the couch in front of the TV, in an elevator, at the dinner table, or standing in line at the post office – if a person within my field of vision is eating noisily, I find myself going insane. Literally. We’re not talking a mild irritation here – an [...]
Beauty in the ordinary
Any parent will be able to testify that parenting and child-rearing is a difficult and often thankless job. From the moment you find out you are pregnant, you have to come to terms with a new reality; your time is not your own, and you will need to subordinate your own needs to those of [...]
When it rains, it pours: a Shavuot we won’t forget in a hurry
Although we were somewhat behind schedule in our cooking this year, we weren’t worried. We had invited our guests, composed a menu, and were prepared to spend Monday and Tuesday cooking frantically. We were pretty excited for Shavuot – we had found some very interesting and surprisingly uncomplicated dairy recipes, and since Shavuot is only [...]
You can NEVER be too careful
My first instinct after reading this article is to go pick up my two girls this second, and take them out of their respective day cares. A two-year-old boy died in Oklahoma after being bound and taped for refusing to be quiet during nap time. I know that evil acts are committed every second of [...]
A WORD OF WARNING: A Mushy Mother’s Day Post
It is Mother’s Day in the US today, and since Friday, we have been exchanging free E-cards, telephone calls, and emails, wishing our female family members in America a happy Mother’s Day. Yes, Hallmark really lucked out with this holiday. When my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law asked Josh and I what we would be doing together [...]
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