Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
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Dinovember: Someday, I’m gonna be a real dino
Pulling the strings since 2013.
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Dinovember: prehistoric backgammon
“Are we playing that doubles means you go again?”
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Is it possible to raise modern kids with a less gendered tone? And other thoughts on my tzitzit-wearing daughter
Here’s how my kids tell it: This morning, Koala offered Bebe a pair of tzitzit to wear today. Note that this on the heels of last week’s Bebe deciding to wear a kippa to gan (and actually doing it the whole day – I was more impressed hair-wise!). So Bebe accepted his offer. I walked…
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It’s over. Everything is over and my kids have won. Now go read my electric bill.
Native children ahad, Immigrant mother, efes.
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Dinovember: new dinos, new baby – mutually exclusive?
New crew in town… set on proving the baby has nothing to do with this…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Scary
Week 44: Scary Even after all these years outside of NYC, even on the most beautiful and innocent of days, I still can’t stand around a train platform without getting morbid.
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Dinovember: putting together the pieces
Step 1. The month after October Step 2. Your favorite prehistoric extinct creatures Step 3. Putting together the ‘pieces’ yet? Guess who’s baaaaack… ‘But if you didn’t do it, Abba didn’t do it, we didn’t do it, who did it?’ ‘I dunno…’ [They look at the baby] ‘If Nettles had done it, she’d be…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Windows / Doors
Week 43: Windows / Doors You know the old saying…
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Koala update: five and a half years
It would be an understatement to say it’s been a hectic half a year. But it hasn’t been too busy not to notice what a big kid you’ve become. You’ve taken to Nettles as a big brother does; you’ve bonded even more with Bebe even if you do bicker a bit more (a testament to…
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Nettles update: seven months
Oh Nettles, Nettles, Nettles. You are a special soul, truly: only you – but only you – can be home with me all day while I attempt to get work done, roar at me on constant, and when I try to help, you laugh in my face – and get away with it. It’s fascinating me to…
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Fifty-Two Frames: Landscape
Benefit of a very great week of tiyulim. Week 42: Landscape Rocks in italics.
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Those 3 dreaded words: work life balance
How is it natural to go from a 6-month-old clawing at your neck while laughing in your face all day, and then at 5pm switching to wearing suitable Waldorf Astoria clothing, packing business cards into your clutch and smiling like you haven’t been waking up every two hours for the last few nights? It’s not.…
Questions? Comments? Advice?