Breathing Space

A few weeks ago, we participated in the Shabbos Project. Originally meant as a Shabbat to encourage your non-observant Jewish acquaintances ...

I had all the kids home with me last week. We were talking about different things to do and Chattanooga Aquarium came up. We have been there...

We went shoe shopping in Walmart yesterday. We really needed to go to Costco to buy shmura matzah, but Costco was closed, so we ended up in ...

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 ...

My oldest is a dreamer. He is distracted. Disorganized. Scatter-brained. Loses things. Creative and cannot be bothered to clean up. B...

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

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...

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...

Hashem, hatati. I have sinned. I got complacent. I forgot all the good things that happen to me. I focus too much on the bad. And I f...

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...

Another year has passed. Now my father missed meeting three of his grandchildren: two of mine and one of my sister's. He was supposed ...

Deep down, I hate surprises (ask the people who were unsuccessful in throwing a surprise baby shower for me when I was pregnant with my olde...

We just started a new semester of classes at the coop. 9 yo is signed up for Project-Based Learning class, where he would get guidance to pu...

Yesterday's biology lesson: Target was selling bug vacuum for a song, so I could not resist and got it. The boys were enamored with i...

Today we did so much, that it is possible to say we started the school year. By the time I got up, 9 yo was dressed and davened. He took o...

This is how we are doing chumash now: With 9 yo we are finishing up B'reishit. We have done previously Lech Lecha, Vaeira, Chaii Sara...

We are unschooling, right? So why all of a sudden am I sitting at the computer on Amazon, looking up workbooks? Why does my cart have four o...

This past Sunday was Yom HaShoa. No, I did not do any special activity with the kids, in fact, I am still struggling how to weave Holocaust ...

At some point we all have to fill out some forms: name, address, phone number, followed by occupation and employer. Ever since I started sta...

It is Sunday, which means laundry day. Nowadays, that means that the boys have to fold their laundry and put it away. They like this experie...