Breathing Space

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 ...

Today was first day back-to-cop classes for us. I am teaching a class on geology, so I spent quite a bit of time preparing and then some ene...

4 yo started reading Bob books. I had them forever, and I was pretty sure that she knew her letters, or at least enough of them to start rea...

We played a few rounds of Bananagrams with 10 yo. He always ends up being a rotten banana: parts of words hanging, made-up words, misspelled...

I was having hard time with 7 yo. He refused to do his writing. I suggested doing it outside, on the deck. He brought his workbook out, bare...

7 yo's best friend had a birthday party today. He has been anticipating going there for a long time. He checked for the correct date on ...

Ever since 7 yo was diagnosed with anxiety, I checked out a big stack of books out of the library on anxiety in children. That was about two...

Well, we've gotten the diagnosis. I have been mulling in my mind what to do with it, now that we have a piece of paper. In the good news...

Tonight, an hour before it was time for kids to get into bed, I casually suggested that they do some Chanukah decoration. I have been casual...

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 we did HaNerot Halalu with 6 yo and Al Hanisim with 8 yo. I found on chinuch.org a printout, with Hebrew text on one side, and the oth...

We had our siyum in Cupz and Cake . When I got up, both boys were dressed, and sitting quietly on the couch, reading, ready to go. The break...

I decided to start early, so today was the first day. The chagim are in a month, and I want to be able to take off some days for errands and...

After some deliberation, I decided to make today more of a regular school day and then tomorrow and Wednesday can be dedicated to Purim prep...

Got up late, for us. It was after 7.  By 9, we were all dressed and breakfasted. They boys davened. 5 yo started with Rosetta Stone: nothing...