I’m Turning 50, Mazal Tov?

Posted by JewishMom on Nov 19, 2021 in Current Events, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 8 comments

Battling my ambivalence and false beliefs about my upcoming change of “area code.”

You Must Have 9 Kids to Qualify

Posted by JewishMom on Nov 14, 2021 in Inspiration, Israel, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 6 comments

From my 3rd birth on, I would go straight with my newborn babies from the hospital to Beit Hachlama, the Recovery Home, a kind of hotel where postpartum women go to sleep a lot and share their birth stories over and over and eat lots of fantastic food (especially cheesecake) so they’ll return home stronger […]

Why My 16-Year-Old Picks up Trash on the Street (6-Minute Shabbat-Shalom Video)

Posted by JewishMom on Nov 11, 2021 in Inspiration, Inspirational Videos, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 4 comments

My Out-of-the-Box Kids

Posted by JewishMom on Nov 10, 2021 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 1 comment

As an Orthodox mom of out-of-the-box kids living in a fairly cookie-cutter neighborhood, it’s easy for me to look around at my neighbors with their in-the-box kids and feel like I am failing as a frum mom. So when I heard this quotation from Superbowl-winning NFL coach Pete Carroll about the drawbacks of a pressured […]

Mom’s Yahrzeit Miracles

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 29, 2021 in Inspiration, Jewish Moms, My life | 3 comments

Shabbat shalom from Baltimore!!

A Video I Made about My Mom A”H

Posted by JewishMom on Oct 25, 2021 in Inspirational Videos, Jewish Moms, Motherhood, My life | 9 comments

I made this little video about my mom talking about motherhood 13 years ago, and today I’m so happy I did. What a treasure, now that she’s gone, to hear the cadence of her voice, to see her emotion as she talks about being a wife and mother and grandmother. To see HER. I especially […]