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When Gabby was born she weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces. By the time we left the hospital, she was almost at her birth weight. For the next year her weight was on a roller coaster of highs and lows. Many tears were shed over the fact that she was not thriving. I took her to countless doctors without receiving any […]

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This being the week of Thanksgiving and all, no better time to appreciate what I got. I’m thankful for so very much but sometimes I get lost and caught up in what I want, where the deficits in my life are, and focus on all the wrong things. So today I’m going to focus on how grateful I am to […]

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I have finished the last of my tours of preschools. I have now been exposed to four different preschools. Each one has their own strengths and weaknesses. So now I believe it should be decision time… Maybe it’s the fact that I’m super preggers and have not felt especially decisive during these 32 weeks of pregnancy. Maybe it’s the fact […]

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Today I celebrate my mom. I celebrate my mom because I now have a better understanding of how difficult the job really is. I celebrate my mom because she spent the majority of my life doing this incredibly difficult task by herself. I celebrate my mom for being a completely devoted, willing to do what it takes kinda mom. I […]

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Approximately a year and a half ago, I quit my job. It was one of the most nerve wracking decisions I have ever made but I took a leap of faith (?) and did it. In some ways it has been my most excruciatingly hard year and a half but also my most deliriously happy year and a half. Almost […]

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As if I needed a reminder to the heavy lifting necessary in managing a child who has spent the weekend with his grandparents where “no” was infrequently part of their vocabulary, Drew had a temper tantrum for the books. Let me set the scene… Last week Drew’s grandparents took him to his taekwondo class. At the fine establishment is a […]

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Sins: An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. Definitely a four year old definition! Tonight at sundown starts the holiest of Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur. From my understanding, Rosh Hashana is the Jewish New Year and exactly a certain amount of days later starts Yom Kippur where G-d takes out his book and decides who will […]

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Friday night there was an intense game of Chutes and Ladders in our house. I know, my life is very exciting these days. With one minor overlook of a chute, Drew won the game. His celebratory dance shook the house, howls could be overheard by neighbors and days later we were reminiscing over Drew clinching the world championship of Chutes […]

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Yesterday marked the Jewish New Year. For the past thirty years of my life, I have spent the first day of Rosh Hashana at my grandma’s (a.k.a. Nana). We have a very specific ritual. We start in the morning at our respective temples, meet around noon at Nana and Poppy’s temple (to be properly paraded past their various friends), back […]

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