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Melissa Cohen

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Date registered: March 7, 2013

Latest posts

  1. Baking — March 2, 2013
  2. Way Back Wednesday – Volume I — February 27, 2013
  3. Rough day — February 25, 2013
  4. Relinquish Control — February 20, 2013
  5. Eleven Years — February 14, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Had a little moment last night — 30 comments
  2. Open Letter to My Children’s Teachers — 28 comments
  3. The Screamers — 23 comments
  4. Will it ever end? — 23 comments
  5. Being a second wife — 19 comments

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Oct 08

New Years Resolutions

It’s the Jewish New Year – or actually, it was the Jewish New Year last week, but I’m just now getting around to resolutions.  As a convert Judaism, each year I have to relearn what each holiday is really about.  Because each year, it seems to mean a little something different to me.  This year, …

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Oct 07

I left, and she cried until she vomited

I feel kind of like I’m in a relatively new stage of my life.  With two kids in school and a toddler (who STILL stubbornly refuses to toddle) at home, my life is very different than it was when I had a kindergartner and a toddler at home, or a second grader, a preschooler still at home …

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Oct 04

Bedtime Battles

Confession time here – I’m crap about putting my kids to bed.  I like to cuddle them to bed.  I just do.  I nursed Sam until he was almost three and a half, and Jessie liked me to sing and read her to sleep.  I just never got in the habit of shoving then into …

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Oct 01

October Update

Starting from the top… Jessica is doing really well in third grade.  She really likes her teacher and her papers coming home have been consistently in the 90-100 range.  I’m really pleased by this – and have now decided to consider second grade just an aberration.  I think the combination of it not being a …

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Sep 26

Oddly enough

My life, in many ways, got easier once I had two kids in school.  Suddenly we’re all organized and with a majority of kids on the same schedule, life is just easier.  Bedtime is a breeze, no more battles to get Jess to sleep, Sam goes down by necessity earlier than she does.  No real …

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Sep 24

Checking in

All is delightful in my little world.  Miss Jessie and Sam danced off to Hebrew School happily enough.  There’s a famous quote by some rabbi that Marc quotes all the time, something about if you want a child to love Torah, give them candy.  Which is a good theory – and I’m happy to report …

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Sep 21

SHE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy moly – Julianna Ruth took her very first steps today!

Sep 19

Thoughts from a newly freed mother

Mothering is obviously different for each mother and differenter (is that even a word??) for each child of each specific mother.  My experiences mothering is different for each child.  And while my love for each child is quantitatively the same for each one, the level of intensity seems different.  The level of need of each …

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Sep 17

Holy moly, Sam is actually social

We went to my  mother’s house last night.  For no real reason, I wanted to show off the new van, and thought I’d nag Mandi into cutting my hair (because I was ready to take the scissors to it myself, and I knew she’d hate that) and Samilicious Boy was … just freaking awesome. Sam …

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Sep 16

Because I know how lucky I am to have her….

It’s odd – my sister and I have next to nothing in common.  If we weren’t biologically related, we’d probably have never met, let alone hung out together.  She’s five years younger, a million times cooler and completely different from me.  She’s got a bigger temper, but I can hold a grudge way longer.  She’s …

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