Monthly Archive: April 2011

My kids are not doing anything special this summer.  Jessica has attended JCC summer camp for the past two years, and the year before that, she went to gymnastics camp.  And this is the first year that Sam would be going anywhere (we started with Jessie the summer before kindergarten).  But we’ve decided that this …

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Could also be subtitled – The On-Going Saga of a Spiritually Diverse Family. I still tend to think of us as interfaith, because even after converting to Judaism, Marc and I are often coming at spirituality from such a different place.  Our “faiths” are so different that even though they are nominally the same, we …

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We hosted both nights of Passover here at the house this year.  We’ve never done it before, I think we might have done one of the High Holidays before, but we’ve always lived in such small spaces that having Marc’s entire extended family over wasn’t such a hot idea.  But we’ve got a gorgeous big …

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My daughter Jessica is (again) prompting me to think hard about where I am, religiously.  Or spiritually – if I can be a little bit nitpicking.  Because, to me, religion has always been sort of rigid and dogmatic and not really something I can relate to.  Spirituality – that’s something I can really think about …

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Another post in my on-going struggle to understand my son.  I’m a girly-girl.  I don’t like bugs, I don’t like violence.  I have a soft spot for baby dolls, I like playing dress up.  I don’t understand, at a core level, my son’s fascination with super heros, all things military, guns and weapons and bugs …

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I actually said it out loud yesterday to the cashier at Staples.  Then I stopped and got a little choked up.  How is it possible that my tiny little love bug is almost a year old?  I’m going to be an emotional wreck on 4/29, I can already see it… Had a delightful sort of …

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I’m awfully tired today – I’ve been fighting a sinus infection with sudafed, and it keeps me up at night.  Julianna likes to stay up right along with me, and we were up at least once an hour from two o’clock on.  She’s sound asleep on Marc’s shoulder now, and I’m jealous… Snow here today …

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1 – I really don’t like nursing Julianna.  Not all the time.  I’m grateful that we can, and proud that we made it thru the struggles from the first couple of months, and I love that it’s such a simple, natural way to tell her I love her and comfort her – but it still …

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