Rugrats

It’s as if the youngest understands that in order to be in my family, he needs to live a scheduled life. Even at the tender age of almost six weeks, Noah seems to crave a schedule. And I’m extremely hungry for the structure myself, so it works out rather nicely. That is…until it doesn’t. The last two Saturdays, although we […]

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What is three and a half hours? It’s longer than Drew’s day at preschool. It’s longer than a movie you pay 50 plus dollars to go see. It’s longer than an exercise class. What’s not three and a half hours? A complete night sleep? Certainly not! Last night Noah gave me the longest stretch of slumber that I have gotten […]

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The last time I felt, as I did this morning, was after a long night of heavy drinking. There was nothing fun about the party I survived last night. The headache I woke up to was less fun than any hungover headache I have ever had. And rocking the night away has a whole other meaning! When my wake up […]

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Every time there is an impending “break” in our schedule, I get nervous about how I’m going to keep my crazy rugrats busy. I line up tons of play dates and plan on extra time at the gym. When it’s over, I’m usually sad. We end up having a nice, relatively unstructured break. And part of me is reluctant to […]

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I’ve described him to people as the biggest and smartest man in the world. As I got older my assessment has changed a bit, maybe because I have gotten taller or he has shrunk. Either way, he is still the smartest man in the world and one of the most special to me – my “Poppy.” I have mentioned a […]

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I have collected friends from a variety of different places in my life. Recently I went to the wedding of a friend from preschool. Now that I have these little offsprings that are starting to develop relationships of their own, are they going to someday be attending each other’s weddings? It’s no surprise that Drew has developed some close friends […]

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When the kids were in full day daycare, they were getting sick all the time. And as stressful as it was managing a sick child, figuring out who would watch them and shuffling around one’s work schedule to accomodate, there was something exciting about having an unscheduled day to stay home and take care of them. Since I “retired,” our […]

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We are deep in the trenches of Chanukah, a couple of big bashes under our belt. With weeks of prepping on appropriate gift receiving behavior, I’d venture to say my kids have been sufficiently gracious through our first two tests. (Read about my feelings of dread here) It didn’t hurt that I used bribery, or a reward system as I’d […]

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Some kids have imaginary friends. I’m sure there are times that it is perfectly innocent. But there are also times kids develop imaginary friends to mask their worries, their insecurities or be some sort of shield for some underlying pain. My son speaks a foreign language. I’m not bragging about his ability to speak Spanish, Mandarin, or Hebrew in addition […]

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