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On the road
We’re 45 minutes north of Savannah, GA, and both boys are asleep. We camped last night at Jones Lake State Park, in North Carolina. I failed to get the much-requested photo of camping-averse husband in our tent, so will have to be sure to get it on the way back. We got to the campsite…
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Technology saves the morning!
We’re on the road, and things were looking pretty grim, with S saying he was hungry already (at 10:45, after a big breakfast of waffles), and J unhappy with all our music choices, and clearly crabby. But, pop in a DVD (Finding Nemo), and all is peaceful…(for now, anyway)
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Camping trip…preparations
I’ve never been great at preparing for anything…I tend to leave things to the last possible minute, often finding it difficult to find inspiration for getting things done until the deadline is upon me!! But, knowing that I am responsible for the comfort and happiness of two boys and a husband (who hates to camp,…
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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…
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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…
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Passion – a negative or a positive?
My meditation group (with some reluctance, I claim it as mine) met this morning, and we began to use the weekly parashah as our reference point for our meditation focus. This morning was our third meeting at this new time, Sunday morning at 8am, and the first two sessions were of a more introductory nature…
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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…
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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…
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Sleep
Every parent deals with sleep, at some time or another. I’ve been going through our photos documenting this past 1 1/2 year experience with our boys, and a pair of photos taken on our first day home brought the whole “sleep” story of the past year back to my mind. Ethiopia is 8 hours ahead…
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“I’m a baby”…”I’m a Big Boy!”
We are at a cusp of identity with J – he has been talking for about 6 months, maybe a little longer. Until very recently, if you asked him, “Are you a big boy?”, he would reply “I’m a baby!”. But just yesterday, he has started to deny the title “Baby”, and is claiming “Big…
