Breathing Space

There is this harmful and damaging myth that one (especially a woman) can do it all and do it all with a smile. This myth leaves so many of ...

It is June. End of school year is nearing or already passed. It seems like a good time to draw some conclusions, see where we are holding. ...

I signed up for a drawing class with 11 yo. We signed up together because he expressed a rare interest in doing something outside of his com...

Last day of the winter vacation for the dayschool kids, and they made both lunch and dinner. Yes, that includes even my moody teenager. He w...

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

I'm writing this on chol hamoed Succot. In Hebrew, moed means a designated time, an appointed time, a time of meeting. Holiday, as in ...

A few weeks ago the boys took ITBS test, also known as Iowa. It is a standardized normed test, just the kind that the state requires to be a...

We are in the middle of Shemot with 10 yo, moving right along, I think I will end up with the best textual preparation because of this; I ha...

We finished our dinner. 10 yo: "Mom, can I have ice cream for dessert?" I don't want him eating my husband's Haagen Dazs...

My daughter is reading. Yes, we have been doing a Bob book here and there (she is on fifth book in the first set, I believe), and yes, I kne...

A friend posted about making mug cakes. 10 yo saw this post this morning, and made me watch the video which showed how to make those cakes....

On Tuesday, I had a whole grand plan for the day laid out. Both boys chose to start with math. 9 yo was in the throes of long division. He d...

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...

As we were in the last hour of Shabbos, I started hearing murmurs about DS playing time. My husband was called up to deliver, the kids were ...

I woke up this morning to a smell of coffee (and yelling from the baby). 9 yo, who woke me and the baby up the previous morning at 6 am and ...

We are at the homeschooling coop. 7 yo is sitting next to his good friend, who is eating some kind of candy, of gusher type. The friend offe...

I did put the kids to work this Friday. I discovered that we owned two Swiffers, so 7 yo and 3 yo became the "Swifferers of the Day...

lining the tins for the muffins By the time I got up this morning, 9 yo greeted me being fully dressed, davened and breakfasted. He even...

while the boys were doing HWT and math, 3 yo made a "telescope" Lots of learning took place today. We had a trip to a histor...