Balanced Parenting and Life (12-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Finding the right balance in parenting and in our daily lives.
Read More14-Year-Old Chooses Shabbat over the Olympics
9th grader, Estee Ackerman, is ranked 14 in the US for table tennis. But when this year’s olympic trials, and Estee’s final shot at making the team for the 2016 Rio olympics, coincided with Shabbat, Estee decided to pass on her shot at making the olympic team. She told Chabad.org, “I was disappointed; I love […]
Read MoreWhen One Mother’s Intuition Saved her Grandchild
One of the many nice things about moving to Kiryat Moshe is that now almost every day I see our old friends and now neighbors, Noam* and Einat.* Josh went to yeshiva with Noam when Josh first came to Israel 25 years ago. B”H, 13 years ago we danced at Noam and Einat’s wedding, and […]
Read MoreOur 1st Weisberg Almond Blossom
This past Shabbat, Josh noticed the first almond blossom on our newly-planted almond tree. This was BIG news for the Weisberg family. I came out of the kitchen to see it and then Josh and I and all the kids stood around admiring it for several minutes. In our old house, we didn’t have a […]
Read MoreThe Supermarket’s Surprising Delivery
Yesterday morning I did a big shopping trip at the supermarket, and then I came home and waited for it to be delivered. I’ve done many deliveries over the years, and I’ve seen with my own eyes many of the things that can go wrong. Exploded cottage cheeses. Shattered grape juice bottles. Leaky fabric softener. […]
Read MoreWhen I Was the Worst French Horn Player
3-year-old Yaakov is the Weisberg family DJ. His musical taste, over recent days, has been heavy on “Chag Purim, chag Purim!.” And before that, we had a few weeks of “Tu B’Shvat Heegea.” Accompanied by certain older siblings with their hands cups over their ears yelling “Yaaaaakoooov! turn that off already!” But yesterday morning, while […]
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