My 2-Year-Old’s Chips
Every Shabbat, my kids are entitled to one big chips (Friday night), one treat (Shabbat morning) and one little chips (Shabbat afternoon). This Sunday morning, 2-year-old Yoni woke me up at 6:30 in the morning with a urgent request, “Eema, may I have a little chips?” “No, Yoni, today isn’t Shabbat. It’s Sunday. No more […]
Read MoreReframing a Blah Mothering Day (6-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
Even if your heart wasn’t into mothering your kids today, you were still an awesome mother.
Read MoreUnicorn Mom
Sometimes I imagine that Hashem is giving ME a Mommy Peptalk. And this is what I imagine He tells me: “I cannot believe that in the year 2017 there is still a woman in this world who so has her priorities straight. A woman who is dedicated to her husband. A woman who is dedicated […]
Read MoreMy Children’s Love Languages
I wrote earlier this week about the book The 5 Love Languages about how different people have different ways of feeling loved, through: 1.Receiving words of affirmation 2. Quality time 3. Receiving gifts 4. Acts of Service 5. Physical Touch After I finished the book, my first project was to figure out my personal primary […]
Read MoreA Note Hashem Sent Me
A few days ago I stepped over two bicycles and two badminton rackets and an empty bamba bag and out my back door, when I noticed a small, crumpled piece of paper lying there in the dirt. And I thought to myself a funny thought: maybe this crumpled piece of paper contains a message from […]
Read MoreA New You for the New Year (11-Minute Mommy Peptalk)
This month every Jew became a new creation, here’s how to access the new light of 5778.
Read MoreOne Reason I’m Relieved I Lost by Hillary Clinton
[Shortly after losing November’s election, I attended my 2-year-old granddaughter] Charlotte’s dance recital. It’s enchanting to watch a bunch of squirming, giggling 2-year-olds trying to dance in unison. Some are intensely focused (that would be my granddaughter), some are trying to talk to their parents in the audience, and one girl just sat down and […]
Read MoreRebbetzin Kanyevsky’s Shabbat Candles
I just read this beautiful story in the newly-released, super-inspirational Eishes Chayil Candle Lighting Treasury by Rabbi Dov Weller (Artscroll) (he also wrote the Eishes Chayil Hagaddah which I LOVED, and plan to use again at this year’s seder): “At one point the Kanievsky home was being repainted and the area where the Rebbetzin’s Shabbos […]
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What My Almost-5-Year-Old Knows About Hashem:)
In preparation for Yom Kippur, my almost-5-year-old Yaakov has been hearing a lot in kindergarten about Hashem, and what it means that Hashem is all-powerful. I guess that’s why today at the playground, Yaakov informed me: “Eema, did you know that Hashem can do WHATEVER HE WANTS? “He could turn a fence into a person! […]
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