Tag: motherhood
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Working motherhood.
It would be cliche and boring to say being a working mother is like a big juggling act. Or jigsaw puzzle. Would it be any more exciting to call it an Unscramble? I used to love those. There are so many pieces involved to making a day go by successfully. Or, at the very least,…
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Question of the week.
Q: What’s it like being back at the office? A: I feel like a freshman in high school. Everything is new; it’s still school like middle school was, but it’s bigger and more complicated. And there’s more home-work. And I’m tired all the time from waking up at 6 am to get everyone out the…
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Not your momma's birthday.
Recently, my birthday passed but for years now I’ve just not been a birthday person at all. Occasionally, growing up (as my ponderous tye-dye free-thinking self), I would consider – along with saving the manatees – the idea that perhaps birthdays should be about mothers, not kids. After all, the mother is the one who…
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Adapting to new life.
The Koala isn’t the only newbie around here. It’s hit me in the last week that I am a new person. It’s been a short process (36 hour labor) and a long process (it’s about a year since I found out I was pregnant). But here I am, changed. I’m a mother. I’m a food source.…
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Koala update: six weeks.
Imagine that six weeks ago yesterday my entire life was altered in a way I slowly come to fathom every day. Piece by piece. On so many levels I am amazed: at myself, for making it happen through a kind of energy and inner strength I wasn’t sure I had… At my husband, who was…
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The shaking of my non-faith.
You may think you have everything to lose until you have a kid. Yeah, I had stuff to lose before… but now everything I had to lose is seen in the new light of having a kid and thus everything to lose. Which is why today it dawned on me: My family lives in Israel.…
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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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An Israeli parenting first.
While I was pregnant, I found that I wasn’t getting too many invasive comments, suggestions and guesses from middle-aged to older Israeli women (as I had dreadfully expected). When I mentioned this to some, they said not to worry; the comments would come for sure once I had a baby to show for it. “They’ll…
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Baby has its uses.
In the last couple days, a blast from the dramatic past and I came into fairly close contact in yet a very distant manner. I realize how frustratingly vague that sounds, and I don’t care much to expand. But what I am interested in is not that I avoided encountering the drama head-on, but what…