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Recently on NPR they had a panel of parents discussing feelings, costs, and challenges with daycare. They had a variety of working moms, previously a stay at home dad, a grandmother, etc. debating the concerns with daycare, predominantly from a financial perspective. Parents Sound Off On The Economics of Child Care

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I recently starting thinking about what it takes to raise a well-adjusted girl, on the heels of celebrating Gabby’s new found love for food. Boys have their challenges, don’t get me wrong, but everyone knows that raising girls comes with an emotional hormonal roller coaster where mothers frequently can’t do anything right. I was reading an article this morning… http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/18/us-heavy-teens-idUSTRE76H15320110718 […]

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Having a marriage where there are mixed beliefs makes things a little harder. For some people that means sending your children to church for Christmas and temple for the high holidays which can be difficult to manage. In my family it means going to Wrigley Field to support the Cubs and Cellular One to cheer for the White Sox. Being […]

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This past Saturday Gabriela received her Hebrew name. At first I had thought that it was a small ceremony that I was mostly doing for my extended family’s benefit. Invitations went out and I felt that it was a minor detail in the myriad of events in our lives. I don’t think of myself as an especially religious person. I […]

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Priorities are funny things. Obviously my children are my number one priority. There are times though that it gets complicated. Is spending an hour doing bath and bedtime rituals a priority over curriculum night at my two year olds school? It’s a dilemma I’m always faced with. I want to make sure that I tend to all the behind the […]

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When Adam and I first met we were kids. Eleven years ago our ideals and plans were very different than they are today. At first I was embarrassed to be dating a guy who hadn’t gone to college; after all, I was college bound and planned on dating a guy with alpha beta whatever attached to his name rather than […]

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This time of year is always a bit of a let down for me. I love Christmas season – I love all the festivities, the good nature, the mall craziness…I love it all. I can’t help but feel that it is an American season that I am left out of though. The trees, the stockings, good ‘ole St. Nick are […]

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