Recent Posts Tagged With 'my family'

• Oh, Canada!

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 21:46 in gay marriage, my family

  Wednesday 29 July 2009. We may be driving to Canada tomorrow. Friends of ours relocated to Canada in June, and we threatened to go visit them at their summer home outside of Toronto. They called our bluff. Normally, a trip like this would have be...

• The story of Passover: the finale

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 23:07 in my family, my sister, jewish stuff, seasonal stuff

  Passover has passed, but I still need to tell a bit more of the tale. More journaling. My sister Rachel, the anti-blogger, prefers these kinds of entries. She is a good aunt who loves to read stories about her nephews and watch them in action when...

• The Story of Passover: Mishpucha (family)

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 19:00 in my family, our kids, jewish stuff, seasonal stuff

  This one is going to have to flirt with the journal side of blogging so that I can record our trip and shout out to our family members. If you did not sign up for the Mommy Blog Ramblings, you may want to skip it. Regarding ramblings, I promise tha...

• Out of the tunnel

  Posted on Monday March 9th, 2009 at 00:07 in my family, our kids, one-time things

  A warm day without coats. A long day without naps. A fun day in the city with the boys. Success. Days out are usually more stressful than not – for me. I’m one who gets bogged down in the preparation. Do we have change of clothes? Enough s...

• Kids are fun, funerals are not

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 20:56 in my family, gay stuff, gay parenting

  Where to begin? What to even share? As you know by now, I’m not one to get too heavy. It’s not that I don’t like to bear my soul and share my moments of deep reflection or sorrow with you. I am not afraid to be vulnerable or to expose mysel...

• Family time

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 21:29 in motherhood, my family, our kids

  I’m the first to admit when we’re at a disadvantage not having a man around the house. That being said, that particular handicap did not seem to prevent Barack Obama from getting a good education, realizing his goals or becoming the mensch that ...

• Ding dong, our colds are gone

  Posted on Sunday December 28th, 2008 at 13:32 in my family, our kids

  We’ve been home since Wednesday night and have yet to make it to the grocery store. We haven't even made it outside. The raging colds we all caught knocked us out and made these past few days miserable. When the boys are ill, we can manage though...

• Bits of bits

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 22:00 in motherhood, my family, jewish stuff

  For Baby S born 17 November 2008. You can’t fully comprehend the surreal experience of the brit milah (circumcision) until you’ve been a mother of a Jewish boy. It’s one thing to hand your newborn son over to a doctor who performs circumcisio...

• Thanksgiving '08

  Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 21:49 in food and drink, my family, my sister, seasonal stuff

  I can’t let the weekend go by without talking about Thanksgiving now, can I? It wouldn’t be right. As much as I like to avoid writing about the obvious, I can’t deny things like holidays, birthdays, elections, etc. This is an important holid...