More Than Four Sides

Category: Parenting

  • Music & Art

    This morning, while J was eating his Cheerios, he started singing “The Farmer in the Dell”, and when we got to the “child takes a dog”, he insisted “Elephant!”. Huh? So I started singing “the child takes an elephant…” but he ran into the family room, dragging me by the arm, and pointed up at…

  • Lego flower

    I took this photo one morning back in May, and meant to add an entry here about them, but keep having no time to.  This photo is of a lego flower – J found it one morning, and came into my bathroom while I was showering, holding it in his mouth!!!  I freaked out, and…

  • Haircuts…

    For the past several months, S has been wanting to grow his hair long, so that he can have bangs!! I’ve tried explaining that his hair really won’t form bangs, but he has been undetered, and even wanted me and his nanny to braid his hair, which she attempted last Friday, but we concluded that…

  • Karate

    I’m sitting in the waiting room at Kang’s Black Belt Academy, watching both S and J in the Lil Dragons class, which J just joined 3 weeks ago, and which S graduated from (now he’s a Kid Tiger, and SO proud of it). S has been taking karate classes from the Malakoffs, who own and…

  • Bringing our kids to the mikveh…

    No matter how much I know…I can still get blind-sided! Approximately 20 years ago, I went to the mikveh, after a year-long course of study with Rabbi Sheldon Lewis, of Congregation Kol Emeth in Palo Alto, CA.  I had no idea what to expect, and I was totally unaware of the tradition of turning a convert “away” before…