More than once I’ve been told I’m a pretty laid-back first-time mom. I think when I got pregnant, I became so overwhelmed with the sheer magnitude of what I was about to do and I kinda just let go of trying to even attempt to control the situation. I’ve just been able to take one [...]
Koala is ten months old and both his life and mine are starting to fall into place.
While Koala does not sleep through the night at this point, he does have a bedtime and he does collapse into it every night, for which I’m grateful. Having a routine is not one of my fortes, but it [...]
At this point, the growing happens behind my back or out of the corner of my eye… I have to catch it when I can. Kind of like I’ve had to do since Koala discovered the stairs two weeks ago.
From the kitchen, I can suddenly turn around and see that Koala is reaching under the [...]
How appropriate: Koala turned eight months old after celebrating the eight nights of Chanukah. Or, not so much celebrating as staring into bright, vision-stimulating fire, sucking on giant plastic dreidals, reaching for our sufganiyot and being handed wrapped presents from doting elders and staring at them.
Seriously, I thought he’d be more into the whole wrapping [...]
I’m not going to lie; it’s not always easy to write the praises of parenthood and the cutest Koala in the entire world when said Koala is trying to push one of the hardest substances of the body through his gums.
Last week and the present one are probably the most challenging I’ve faced so far.
We [...]
So this is it, huh?
You get through a really hard week. You get invited out for both meals for Shabbat. You breath and say, hey, we can go out the whole day Friday! You make plans together. You prepare everything the night before.
You get woken up too early on Friday. Your kid is sneezing and coughing [...]
It is the eve of our first party-of-three family trip… involving a plane ride.
That’s right; tomorrow we will be inaugurated as that young couple with a baby that you love to hate on planes. Yet another life milestone.
Here’s hoping it will go well. The definition of going well is one of the following:
Koala sleeps to [...]
At this point in my life I’ve known two too many 12-year-old girls who have fought cancer and lost.
The first time I was a kid. This time I’m a mom.
Being a mom at a shiva call for a kid makes all the difference.
There’s something about kids with cancer where they tend to have this bravery, [...]
Nothing but good to report about the Koala. He’s been giving me once-in-a-while nights of eight-hour sleep. He’s been relating really well to his uncle, who’s in town. He went for his first ’swim’ and took his first splash in the face like a champ.
And… he started laughing on Friday. It was a pool-side giggle brought [...]
It’s three and a half weeks later and all of our ‘afterbirth’ guests have departed as of today. Needless to say we are looking forward to being able to settle into a semi-permanent routine where he goes to work every day till 3pm and I’m hanging with the little one playing Holly Homemaker.
Paid maternity leave [...]