Breathing Space

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...

I have been meaning to write this update for over a month, but every night something or other comes up. Or nothing comes up: I'm just de...

You have one child, and you worry and you fret. You fret about getting out of the house, nursing in public, crying baby, having enough diape...

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 ...

http://img14.deviantart.net/7921/i/2014/203/b/e/ taekwondo_girl_by_kainaturally-d7rruym.jpg I always considered myself to be more of a ...

Summer is drawing to a close. I filed Declaration of Intent to Homeschool for the boys. I also shopped for school supplies for 5 yo and 2 ...

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

I spoke to the boys' taekwondo teacher about organizing a homeschool class in the mornings, and moving them into two existing grown-up c...

There is this book called " The Schmutzy Family ". Mama Schmutzy lets her kids do all sorts of creative and messy things, until it...

How badly do I want anxiety to leave us alone! Just for a bit, just for a day, I wish to have a child who will not be worried and fearful of...

I am seriously considering sending kids back to school. Maybe I will send all three, maybe I will send just the boys, or maybe I will send o...

How do I know that we're having a good day? When we come to the end of it, and all is well. Yesterday we opened up Handwriting Without...

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...

Today was very hectic. My husband had a delivery to attend in the middle of the night, and the baby was up quite a bit. There was a laundry...