Breathing Space

There is a sunrise every single day. And every single day it feels like a sin if I am not there when the sun is rising, when the sky starts ...

We have lived in this new house for six months. There are two stories, so I spend plenty of time going up and down the stairs and I've n...

Yesterday, at breakfast that is nowadays a blur of cereal bowls, not-yet-packed lunches and 2 yo asking to be fed, as I hastily slurp my pre...

I knew today was going to be insane. I forgot that I will have to drive the kids to preschool in the morning. That means getting the baby dr...

We are up to the story of Yehudah and Tamar with 10 yo. I might have chosen to approach this whole issue with trepidation. But I didn't....

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...

On Friday, I had a conversation with my sister about kids and she asked me, point-blank, wouldn't 9 yo be better off in school? I said t...

a fish names gefilte I spoke too soon about waiting for next year to have a meaningful Yamim Noraim ( Days of Awe). We went to shul, b...

Lots of hours nursing means lots of hours reading. I came across this article in Time:  Executive Parenting . A similar article can be found...

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 ...

Today I got a phone call, asking about homeschooling and one of the questions raised was, what do I do to make being Jewish special to my ki...

It's been Tishrei. There have been holidays up to wazoo. There has not been a lot of formal learning going on. Ok, there has not b...

This morning, we are driving to my chiropractor's appointment. 6 yo and 2 yo davened at home before we left and 8 yo davened in the car,...

I have been thinking quite a bit how to make our seder more interactive for the kids. I have a few ideas, but not sure how many of them I wi...