I confess that for years, I’ve been dreading Maya’s bat mitzvah. They are such huge deals and it all seems so overwhelming to handle. Maybe it is because I converted and therefore never went through one of my own (or, more likely for my generation, watched my brothers go through bar mitzvahs), but I’m not [...]
Archive for October, 2007
I’m not ready!
Posted in Jew by choice, Kids, bat mitzvah, growing up, judaism, mothering, parenting, religion, tagged bat mitzvah, growing up, jewish, judaism, parenting, religion, synagogue on October 30, 2007 | 13 Comments »
Allergies
Posted in Kids, allergies, parenting, tagged allergies, allergy testing, Kids on October 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
While I am an unhealthy mess, with so many annoying conditions and syndromes that I dare not list them all, my kids are healthy. Really healthy, particularly Maya who, when Asher is bedridden and feverish for two days over a stomach virus, experiences the same virus by being slightly put off dinner one night. So [...]
One more little thing
Posted in blogging, blogs, tagged blogging, search terms on October 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As I’ve mentioned previously, I can see the search terms allowing people to reach my site. I now know why there are so many slutty Halloween costumes out there. I’ve gotten searches for ‘homemade slut costume’ (if you can’t figure that out on your own, don’t bother). And ’slutty clown costume’ (just, why?). Also, ‘gay [...]
Summer!
Posted in Kids, dogs, doodles, golden doodle, life, tagged babies, dogs, doodles, fun, golden doodles, Kids, weather on October 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It was hot and sunny for the past two days. I was in absolute heaven. I thought after it got cold after our return from New York that we were done with the really good weather, but I was really wrong.
Yesterday, the kids and I took the dog on a long walk along the river [...]
And again, I say Ow
Posted in FMS, Fibromyalgia, chronic pain, exercise, illness, pain, tagged chronic pain, exercise, Fibromyalgia, FMS, pain on October 21, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I swam. I yogaed. I walked the dog at a furious pace for at least an hour. Every day was something. Friday, I crashed. It rained, so I even got out of walking the dog.
Shauna asked if it would be better. Yeah, it’ll get better. Only it’ll take 6 months or so of having it [...]
Clowning around
Posted in Kids, clowns, halloween, mothering, parenting, tagged clown costumes, clowns, costumes, fairy princesses, halloween, handmade costumes, Kids, parenting on October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always been quite pleased with my kids’ Halloween choices, with the exception of my fairy princess. This year, Asher is going to be a knight and Maya decided to be a clown. I found a cool knight costume at the Children’s Place. All we needed was a sword, which the Children’s Place politically correctly [...]
And on it goes
Posted in parenting, synesthesia, tagged parenting, restless leg syndrome, RLS, synesthesia on October 17, 2007 | 11 Comments »
When I was pregnant with my children, I used to wonder if they’d have my eyes, or hair colour. It didn’t really occur to me that more than that would get passed on, which is short-sighted of me, as it all got passed on to me.
I have (among many other things) Restless Leg Syndrome. It [...]
Slippery pink slope
Posted in Kids, feminism, halloween, life, mothering, parenting, tagged costumes, feminism, halloween, Kids, mothering, parenting, pink, princesses on October 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
When Maya was born, J’s entire extended family showered us with gifts, which was very nice of them. Several people gave us ruffly pink dresses and those pink headbands you put on naked baby heads so everyone knows you have a girl. We got pink sleepers, t-shirts, jumpers saying, “Little princess.”
I wrote out thank you [...]
Thirteen Things I am currently reading
Posted in Thursday Thirteen, books, reading, tagged books, reading on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Thirteen Things about just making it up.
Top of my list is a book called How to Read the Bible, by James L. Kugel. It puts the Bible (and by that I mean the Torah, the one Christians call the Old Testament) into historical, archaeological and etiological context, as well as giving the traditional interpretations of [...]
New York, with kids
Posted in Greek Mythology, Kids, Metropolitian Museum of Art, New York, life, shopping, vacation, tagged Central Park, Met, New York, vacation on October 11, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Well, we did it. We drove 8 hours (give or take a few pee/food breaks) down to New York on Wednesday and then 8 back on Monday.
The weirdest part of the trip was the weather. It reached the high 20s (Celsius) every day and didn’t get much cooler at night. It was so hard to [...]
