As this whole fuss over funding religious schools picked up heat, it got me pondering why sending my kids to Jewish day school (as opposed to afternoon school) mattered so much. There certainly is the utilitarian reason of not having to send them to afternoon school, which would complicate our lives further. The school also [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Why I send my kids to Jewish day school
Posted in Kids, conversion, judaism, life, politics, religion, religion schools, school on August 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Dalton McGuinty is a Hypocritical Weenie
Posted in Conservatives, Dalton McGuinty, Liberals, Ontario, Tories, Tory, politics, religion, religion schools on August 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think I’ve given away enough in this blog that people realize (if they care to think about it) that I live in Ontario. We are coming up to an election, and the big topic this time is funding for religious education.
Ontario is in a ridiculous position. The government funds public school and free education [...]
Pretty Photographs
Posted in Kids, photgraphy, photographs on August 30, 2007 | 6 Comments »
My boy is budding photographer. He’s the one who took the picture of me that appears with all my comments. If it weren’t for him, my kids would have no idea what I looked past age 21, should I drop dead tomorrow.
Anyway, there’s a kids’ magazine here doing a photo contest and he wants to [...]
The weekend
Posted in China, Kids, adoption, babies, parenting, stupid people on August 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The W*bk*nz people are back. Go away, W*bk*nz people. How many letters do I have to take out of that name before they stop finding me, looking for those stupid, non-existent cheat codes?
I’ve been negligent here, I know. It all has to do with taking my few computer moments to try to write something I’ll [...]
A new milestone
Posted in Kids, illness, mothering, parenting, vomit on August 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Boo is sick. She woke up repeatedly last night, but to really make her point, she woke me up this morning by screaming her way into my room and vomiting on me from the side of the bed. I was jolted into consciousness and immediately tried to catch the vomit. Yes, I am Mom.
I thought [...]
Bits and pieces
Posted in Kids, birthdays, blogs, height, parenting, sick, weird on August 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of our birthday rituals is to weight and measure the birthday child. We have, as I suspect many people do, a wall with all our kids’ heights over the years marked. Asher is delighted that even though his big sister is much bigger than he is, he is taller than she is at every [...]
No more babies here now
Posted in Kids, babies, birthdays, growing up, life, mothering, parenting, school on August 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Boo is turning five today. At this exact moment five years ago (3:07 pm on August 16th, since the time on these posts is always wrong (and it took me a couple days to write this)), I was swearing and yelling in a big bathtub at the hospital, moaning that I didn’t want to be [...]
We’re all together again …
Posted in Kids, camp, summer on August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Maya came home yesterday, looking healthy, happy and full of stories of camp. She appears to have loved every minute of it, as we predicted. Sometimes, parents really do know best (she didn’t want to go for years, this one included, but we basically told her this year she had no choice, because we knew [...]
Gratuitous cute photos
Posted in Kids, camp, cats, golden doodle, kittens, pets on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Maya is coming home today. She sent us 6 letters from camp, all going on about the lovely time she had, and giving some nice detail about her friends, the food, the canoe trip she went on. But my favourite letter is the one where she describes her older cousin’s new mohawk and how [...]
Oops – and update on drug weaning
Posted in FMS, Fibromyalgia, life, opiates, painkillers, withdrawal on August 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I realized this morning that since the piece I wrote on the overview of conversion isn’t actually going to be published until September, it wasn’t very smart of me to put it in my blog now. So I made it disappear. I’ll bring it back when it comes out in the paper. It isn’t like [...]
