Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Time to ring in the New Year! Exercise Eat right Quit a bad habit Look familiar to you? There is nothing like going 365 days and then thinking, tomorrow will be different. Changes will happen because they are going to be called resolutions. Do you remember returning from the holiday break […]
Archives for December 2015
Shhhh…Don’t Say The “C” Word!
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn ‘Tis the season for the party where under no circumstances should you say the “C” word. This is in spite of the fact that the entire party was created because of this word. But shhhhhh, don’t say it. Maybe this time I wouldn’t. The day before this gathering, I looked at […]
The Gift That Was So Much More
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn My husband and I had been trying for over a year to get pregnant. It was feeling hopeless and most of the time, it felt like any world I was trying to create was falling apart before it even began. There were doctor appointments and tests. Hopes were raised and fell […]
Oh Santa…Maybe Just A Few More Things
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Dear Santa, I’m sorry for eating your cookies and leaving mostly crumbs on the plate. I also finished the milk too. Damn kids ate all of the chicken nuggets tonight leaving this poor mama starving. Last year, after not getting the nanny and personal chef I wrote to you about, I […]
The Scene of the Holiday Concert
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Click! Record! Click! Look at all the lights of the cameras and phones as the kids sing their songs. I admit it. I used to be so amused at all of this just for elementary school productions where I taught. How many pictures and videos do you really need of this […]
One For Each Night… A Letter to My Children On Celebrating Two Holidays.
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Dear Kids, Spinning a dreidel and lighting a menorah by a Christmas tree is not something you will see all of your friends doing. In fact, some of them may look at you kind of funny when you mention it and that’s okay. Perhaps some of your friends here where we […]
The Fear In Our World…Can We Bring Change?
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn The world scares me. Every time the news is on, we see anger and hate. There is so much of it out there. You can argue that there is also good if we look for it, but it has become more difficult to find. Terrorists. Shootings. Threats. Lockdowns. These are words […]