Breathing Space

If you have not been hiding under a rock, you have heard about the unfortunate incident at the Cincinnati zoo where a 4-year-old boy made hi...

7:15 am and I hear the baby cooing. Or is it older kids talking? Oh, it's both. The baby has been up again during the night, a bunch of ...

2 yo is going to a backyard camp. This camp is run by a woman who has a playgroup in her house during the year for 2 year olds. I don't ...

On Friday I took both boys for their annual check-up. I had to beg the pediatrician to fit us in between their actual birthdays and before t...

Today was the last Young People's Concert of the season in Spivey Hall. This year, considering how hectic everything was, and how overwh...

8 yo is all excited about our trip. As I am tucking him in (all deep and meaningful conversations seem to happen at bedtime), he is telling ...

This morning, I ran out to get some scarves from a private showing. It is Sunday, and my husband was planing on taking the older kids to Gem...

How did it go? I met with the school on Monday. The meeting was attended by the tester, the principal, and another lady (who did not i...

My oldest, upon hearing me debate which browser to install instead of Chrome: "Maybe you should be like Shimshon and get Firefox?"...

I am sending 8 yo to school next year. By "next year" I mean next month. I have completed online application, submitted the pape...

We are talking about political campaigning. 8 yo: "My party emblem would be Big Foot. I would call it Honest Ape." -------- ...

We were spending Shabbos in Chicago, staying with a large family. It was so nice to stay in a house full of kids and toys. I watched how 4 ...

taking a picture of a butterfly It's one of those road trips which has the potential to be really good, or really bad, depending on...

We played a few rounds of Bananagrams with 10 yo. He always ends up being a rotten banana: parts of words hanging, made-up words, misspelled...

This last week, I finally said it out loud: my baby is a hard baby! I don't know why it took me so long, but there it is, for all to see...

Yesterday we got together with a few other families to bake hamantashen, make groggers and watch a Purim movie. That was the explicit purpos...

I have been reading a few different things on anxiety. One thing that I saw repeated and that really spoke to me was the fact that tears of...

Purim is coming up. I know plenty of families do a costume theme each year: all members dress up to match; it makes great pictures, they all...

I've got an assistant. I am still undertaking too much. 4 yo got her shots today and was very unhappy about it. When I got home, I ha...

Today was such a good day, that it would be a disservice not to share it. There were almost tantrums, and almost meltdowns, and, as I am typ...