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I still remember this night so clearly – and am profoundly grateful, after reading about this week from last April, that we haven’t experienced the hell that is the stomach flu again… There’s something magical about nighttime parenting.  Something elemental and bare bones about it, when it’s the middle of the night, and your child …

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Yom HaShoah starts on Sunday night and ends on Monday at sundown. I haven’t taught the kids about the Holocaust yet.  Other than in the most general of terms – they know about WWII, and they know that Hitler and the Nazis were terrible, terrible people, and they did awful things to the Jews.  They …

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It’s my new catch phrase.  I use it whenever one of the kids starts to go a little nuts.  Freaking out over a ponytail is my latest example.  This morning was going great, everyone was up and happy and content.  Sam got dressed, ate, did everything he was supposed to do with a smile, Julianna …

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(Julianna will be three years old at the end of the month, and I can’t believe that she’s so big.  This post (from the end of May, 2010) made me a little misty, because she was so little – and it seems like it was yesterday) My last little baby girl is four weeks old …

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I’m having a delightful sort of day.  You know how some mornings, things just work?  Today was one of those days.  Both the older kids bopped out of bed cheerfully and content.  Ate their breakfast (Jessie is still keeping kosher for Passover, refused the non k for p cereal her brother was having) and I …

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Passover is over.  Well, it’s not over until tomorrow night, but for all intents and purposes, it’s over for me.  Tonight, we’re having beans and hot dogs, a hugely popular meal that doesn’t involve any bread on a non-Passover day.  We survived Easter too – it’s not a great holiday for me.  Not because of …

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It’s just not that big of a deal to me.  I think it’s because Christmas is such an important holiday for me, and one that I invest so much time and effort into celebrating.  I feel like celebrating Christmas is such a statement – it’s very purposeful and discussed and debated and agonized over.  But …

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It’s the background for my everything, and often I forget to notice it.  I’m good at noticing the little things about motherhood, the quiet moments when everything is so sweet that it aches, or when you’re so tired and touched out and desperate for a little alone time.  Parenting is my full time occupation – …

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It’s her favorite room in the house, and there’s nothing she likes more than to be sitting on her little potty, hanging out. She’ll spend up to a half hour in there, just hanging. Sometimes she’ll demand privacy, and won’t let anyone in with her, but more often than not, she’ll holler out for someone …

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This isn’t one of those “getting ready for Passover with the cleaning and the baking and the cooking and the seders and the dishes and the cleaning and oh yeah, did I mention the cleaning” kind of posts.   Because Passover is hard for all of those reasons.  In theory, and in reality for many …

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