Breathing Space

OMG what is that? My baby has been napping for the past hour and the older kids were entertaining themselves (except for one tushie that nee...

It is a good thing that my husband is my memory keeper. I was exasperated, complaining how 9 yo will never get fluency in reading Hebrew, an...

Yesterday was the first day of camp. All four older kids are going, the boys to one camp, 5 yo to girls' camp and 2 yo to a backyard c...

This past Sunday was the height of insanity: we attended an open house for one local dayschool, followed by a movie screening for " Cla...

I'm slowly going through the sunroom, planning out the next school year. I have really fallen off the planning-ahead wagon, and I am des...

There is this beautiful example of getting ready for Shabbos early going around: have your table set and all the preparations finished by ch...

I kept my eye out to buy Life of Fred  math series for over a year. Since they come out to be pricey once you get all the books, I did not b...

"Crying it out" had gotten a bad rep. One friend recently posted on facebook: why would anyone let their baby cry it out? The resp...

This week, there were moments when I felt my kids would have been better off in school. "Mommy, every time you yell at me, I feel lik...

I am rounding up our academic year here, and this is a reflection of my current being. I want to be a better parent, a better mother, a be...