The Gift of Family Travel
My husband and I caught the travel bug around when we turned 40, and we learned that hitting the road with older kids can be fairly easy and really fun.
Read moreMy husband and I caught the travel bug around when we turned 40, and we learned that hitting the road with older kids can be fairly easy and really fun.
Read moreI loved my small children and as they grew into older children and then teens, I was thrilled and relieved to find that I not only loved these people but I also really liked them.
Read moreWe had Hazel for a little over a week when I noticed tiny fuchsia buds on my holiday cactus. My plant has never bloomed in March; it’s never bloomed any other time but December. Yet each morning the bud was a little bigger than it was the day before.
Read moreAs an interfaith family, we celebrated Christmas and Chanukah when my sister and I were kids, and the shift to just small gifts for Chanukah is a tough one to make.
Read moreWe now choose restaurants with little regard for price, and we all order at least one drink and appetizer. As we’ve matured, so have our meat-and-potato palates; we have become amateur foodies in our middle age.
Read more“Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
Read moreEven with the seltzer substitution, the matzoh balls are dense; a dinner guest once joked that one of my matzoh balls could be used as a weapon. I took that as a compliment — my grandmother’s matzoh balls were firm and hardy, not fluffy and delicate.
Read moreAs a Type A kind of gal, I find a definite appeal to back-to-school time. I love a freshly sharpened pencil and a blank notebook, and as younger children, my son and daughter thought school supply shopping was fun.
Read moreThere are no tantrums or mood swings and grumpiness dissipates quickly when surrounded by Disney magic.
Read moreBut I do still inhale deeply when I hug my children, as if the memory of that scent will keep them with me just a little longer.
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