Tag: parenthood
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Koala update: Eight months.
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…
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Koala update: Six months.
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…
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Welcome to parenthood.
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…
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Have baby, will travel.
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:…
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Being a mom.
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…
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Koala update: fourteen weeks.
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…
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Making the most of maternity leave.
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…
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Mother's Day.
People have been asking me, “how is to be a mom?” As a brand-new mother, I haven’t yet had a chance to think about what it is to be a mother. Not enough time, you see. In some places (not Israel) today is Mother’s Day, so maybe I should take a second and try to…