After living with me for 17 and 14 years respectively my daughter and son know the direct route to my heart is essentially through anything they can craft for me with their hands. There is nothing I love more than for my kid to Show your love with a Handmade Mother's Day Present. My heart stretches in ways that are hard to articulate when I get a gift that I know was conceived with JUST me in … [Read more...]
3 things I know for sure about love and commitment
When it comes to the 3 things I know for sure about love and commitment what I know for sure is that real love is nothing like the love stories we're spoon fed as little girls prancing around in plastic pink high heels and crinoline princess dresses. Real love is not about vases of flowers, real love is not about a man bending down on his knee and handing you a diamond. (Not that there's … [Read more...]
Tips to Embrace Your Role as an Anxious Mother with help from a service like MDLIVE’s telehealth platform
Tips to Embrace Your Role as an Anxious Mother is written in partnership with MDLIVE You know the depiction of Jewish mothers frequently seen in movies? The ones with the whiny, nagging voices who are always shtooping aka forcing food down your throat- and then telling you that you look like you gained a little weight all in the same breath? The ones who are constantly agonizing over every little … [Read more...]
Get your Thanksgiving on! Count Your Blessings and Volunteer with your kids
Simply gazing at my kids, I am instantly overwhelmed by the blessings that fill my life. And it has inspired this post to Get your Thanksgiving on! Count Your Blessings and Volunteer with your kids. Being in the parenting trenches these past 17 years I've finally come to recognize that despite this protective bubble I attempt to maintain for my family, there are no guarantees. And ultimately … [Read more...]
No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up
I really believed when I was smack in the trenches of arguing with my husband about not wanting him to buy the no-frills diapers- since my kids ALWAYS leaked through them- that once the stage of them being completely dependent on me for their basic needs was done- I'd be in the homestretch. But No one tells you that the hardest part of motherhood is when your kids grow up. I … [Read more...]
