Category: koala update
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And we’ll have the rest of the talk in about 8 years
Let today be marked as the day my 2-year-old daughter discovered… armpit hair. Dozing in bed together, Bebe’s head nestled into my side, she’s stroking her fingers against my inner arm. Suddenly, she lifts her head up, eyes wide. “Ima! Ima… Ima… what’s this?” I stir and look over at where she’s staring. “Huh?” “Ima’s arm?!’…
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The dogs and the bees.
When you’re in the park with your kid, and a nice lady with a dog is chatting you up on the park bench, and your son is staring at the dog’s hind legs, and he asks, “What is that black thing coming out of him?” And you take a breath and answer, “his balls.” “And…
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Favorite moment of the day:
Parking is a bitch, but once I open that gate, I start to get revved for the next couple minutes. Walk through, towards the door, up the stairs. the stairs curve; at the curve is when it hits me – the enormity of what is about to happen. I hear her voice mingled with other…
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When the kids had a sleepover
Before kids’ bedtime last night, just for the hell of it, I offered Bebe to sleep on the pull-out bed from under Koala’s bottom bunk. Usually she sleeps in her crib, adjacent to the massive bunk bed, which has served mainly as a hulking piece of furniture potential. She took us up on the offer. As young…
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Israeli “Who’s on First”
“יש לי חנות.” “מה יש בחנות?” “פיצה וקוסקוס. מה את רוצה?” “פיצה.” “אין לי.” “אבל אמרת שיש פיצה?? אוקי אז קוסקוס.” “אין לי.” “אז מה יש??” “כלום.” “אז אני רוצה כלום.” “אין לי!” “אבל אמרת שיש כלום!” Little does he realize this is EXACTLY how it happens here. #sabrakids Loose translation: “I have a store.”…
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The one where we lose our pet snail
It was a dark and rainy day… oddly, since it was May 3rd in the Middle East. We had piled into the car, giddy about the surprise rain, and drove to the nearby nursery to pick up new flowers and herbs for our modest mirpeset garden. The kids were delighted by the plants, the rain,…
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Ka-pow: the Super-simple outdoor Superhero birthday party
Last week we celebrated Koala’s 4th birthday with an outdoor ‘everything Koala loves’ party. Ok, not everything Koala loves; I couldn’t get a real policeman to breakdance on a firetruck, for instance. It came out looking more like a superhero birthday party. Superhero outdoorsy explorer theme with chocolate cake. First, the binoculars. Because I’m crafty and…
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Koala update: Four years
Koala, I love you so freaking much. Sometimes I look at your face while you’re babbling about throwing lions at people or how all your friends’ dads are policemen (somehow?). I look at your face, the same exact face I watched when you were laying on me, four years ago, staring off into space, with your…
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Religion and kids and Israel and me.
I can’t really blame the ganenot (my kids’ teachers). It’s not their fault it all looks so terribly confusing.
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The innocent on Memorial Day.
I told Koala he could come with me to the Yom HaZicaron ceremony if he likes. I told him it’s a time where we remember all the soldiers and all the good things they do for us. “And if you want, during the siren, you can think about your uncle who is a chayal, or…
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Bebe update: Two years
Bebe, A couple nights ago you couldn’t sleep. You came to bed with me, and we spooned for a bit. After years and years of considering I may just be more of a fork, I realized a truth: You, me, right now, in this moment, are the perfect spoon. Two years ago, as the sun…
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Story of Passover (child labor edition)
It’s ok to help mother with cleaning for Passover. It might not be ok for her to involve the children in sanitizing her toxic home office. Also, the first time a child discovers a vacuum cleaner is super fun. Me: How do you say vacuum b’ivrit? Him: Maybe ‘vachuum’ (וחיום)?