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Tag Archives: parenthood
And just like that….
I had carefully scheduled my meetings around this morning’s fifth grade promotion ceremony. Our youngest daughter’s second to last day in our neighborhood school. As planned, I logged off my morning meetings promptly at 10 a.m. to dash over to … Continue reading
Posted in advice, everyday life, family, friendship, kids, lessons learned, love, marriage, parenthood, women
Tagged being a mom, family, kids, lessonslearned, life, momlife, parenthood, parenting, writing
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Why is this night different from all other nights?
Why is this night different from all other nights? It is a question we ask during our Passover Seder. The seder is a night unlike other nights with a set of rituals honoring our cultural history and celebrating emancipation. The … Continue reading
Posted in everyday life, family, grief, holidays, lessons learned, parenthood, personal
Tagged covid, holidays, pand, parenthood, personal, Thanksgiving
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Soliloquy on going back to school during a pandemic: There are no words and that’s okay
Girls, Before you started kindergarten I wrote you each a letter. I wanted to capture how I felt on the eve of your entrance into a new world. I know too much about schools and schooling and I wondered how … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, everyday life, family, kids, lessons learned, parenthood, personal, summer, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged back to school, kids, pandemic, parenthood, parenting
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Snuggling: A Parenting Practice
Snuggling has become one of the most meaningful (and accidental) parenting practices I never meant to adopt. For me, every day starts and ends with snuggling. It’s perhaps the most intimate and meaningful part of my relationship with my daughters. … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, everyday life, family, kids, lessons learned, motherhood, parenthood, personal, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged kids, motherhood, mothers day, parenthood, parenting
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Downtime
Confession: I allow myself little time alone. It’s not because I can’t handle time by myself. I am an extrovert’s extrovert but even I need moments to myself. It’s not that I can’t face the idea of being with my … Continue reading
Back to school and a new normal….
School starts today. Maybe in your neck of the woods, you have a few precious days to squeeze out of summer vacation. Ours ends now. And it comes just in time because we’re all losing our minds. Camp is long … Continue reading
Posted in everyday life, family, kids, lessons learned, parenthood, personal, schools, students, summer, Uncategorized
Tagged back to school, kids, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
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She would have been 70….
Back in February I bought my daughters each a pink hyacinth plant. When my mother was alive, she did the same for me all through my twenties. She was obsessed with spring flowers because their arrival on the scene coincided … Continue reading
Posted in advice, blogging, everyday life, family, kids, lessons learned, love, marriage, motherhood, thinking, women
Tagged death, grief, motherhood, parenthood, remembering
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Daddy is not the babysitter
I am headed out of town to attend a conference for four days. I will miss my girls and my husband. My four-year old is in a clingy phase–recently I left for an early meeting before she awoke and she … Continue reading
Posted in everyday life, family, fatherhood, gender equality
Tagged being a mom, day in the life, motherhood fatherhood, parenthood
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The days of remembrance colliding
We celebrated my mother’s sixtieth birthday just three weeks before she died. Her death was completely and totally unexpected. And when she was gone, it was not immediate. Her life ended on one day but was not over for another. … Continue reading
Posted in being jewish, everyday life, family, motherhood, parenthood
Tagged advice, being a mom, birthdays, day in the life, grief, parenthood
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Living with children….
March is a strange time-space continuum in my world. In March, I celebrate my daughter’s birthday. I also celebrate my mother’s birthday, even though my mother has been gone for seven years. I spend much of the month gearing up and then … Continue reading
Posted in everyday life, family, kids, lessons learned, motherhood, parenthood, personal, real talk
Tagged being a mom, birthdays, living with kids, march, parenthood
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