Lizrael Update: babbling about the expat life since 2004
-
Someone gets girls a lot better than I do
My son is drawing a picture for his cousin: Him: “It’s a girl?” Me: “Yeah.” Him: “So I’m doing purple.” Me: “Why?” Him: “Girls love purple, don’t you know that?” … Me: “What is it?” Him: “A rocket.”
-
How to make homemade chai latte (‘winter’s coming’ edition)
So after yesterday’s mixed berry chocolate chip cookie goodness, today I decided we needed to kick off winter with a new hot drink. (The sky agreed because it’s dark and grey and I’m pretty sure we heard thunder.) In the past we did a ghetto chai latte with a chai tea bag and some warm…
-
Fifty-Two Frames: Famous Quote
Week 43: Famous Quote Break on through to the other side…
-
Koala update: Four and a half years
At some point in the last six months, I stopped living with a little kid and started sharing a home with a boy. The first suspicion that our household had undergone some sort of transition was after a few sporadic mornings when I had the opportunity to creep into your room as the sun came…
-
Fifty-Two Frames: Cityscape
I don’t have a lot of access to cities. Shocking, I know. And even though last week I found myself in four different municipalities, I couldn’t get my act together to get a good cityscape. So Tzur Hadassah’s other half, Har Kitron, will have to do. Week 42: Cityscape A drop of civilization hidden in…
-
My kids are awesome sleepers
By awesome, I mean, creative. Not that they always sleep through their nightmares and don’t come in at 2:30 am and tell us about the monsters and lions and bears and I think once there was the ‘blue Spider-man’. Exhibit A: They very often manage synchronized sleeping. Exhibit B: In all fairness, the bed might…
-
Fifty-Two Frames: Landscape
A little dark and depressing, I know. Week 41: Landscape View from the inside. (alternatively) View from the outside.
-
Of life in the shtetl; Tevye had a point
A fiddler on the roof… it sounds crazy. But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us… is a fiddler on the roof. Before I lived here in Israel, I lived in a tight-knit Jewish shtetl called New York. Trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking…
-
Bebe update: Two and a half years
Bebe, One day, you might be a mom. Remember when I told your older brother recently after he asked a version of the classic question and I answered – “babies grow inside imas… they start as eggs… that are inside all girls when they’re born” – and then you looked up at me wide-eyed and…
-
Fifty-Two Frames: Smell
Week 40: Smell Familiar.
-
Fifty-Two Frames: Green
Week 39: Green Growing… growing… green.
Questions? Comments? Advice?