I just got off the phone with my good friend Avigayil who gave me one of the best quotes I have ever heard: “I don’t need my husband to buy me flowers or romance me; all he needs to do is not screw up”.

Just thought I’d share.

For the past two days I have been camping out in Montville, NJ at the home of my Aunt Renee and Uncle Scott, and my cousins Elli and Nathan (their older brother Max is away at Binghamton). Montville is about a ten minute drive from North Caldwell, the town where I grew up. So, […]

The other day I decided to suit up and haul Yonah down to SoHo to the Children’s Museum of Art, where three mornings a week they hold an art class for little ones. On our cab ride there, I envisioned a serene, light-filled space with Mozart playing in the background and rows of mini-easels […]

Every neighborhood in New York City boasts its own distinct flavor and the Upper West Side is no exception. One of the more family-friendly areas of the city, its residents take pride in the area’s down-to-earth attitude, especially compared to the upturned noses of the ultraposh East Side.

But, this is still New York, […]

For the past few days, we’ve been visiting my father in New York City. While Dad’s at work, Yonah and I have been spending our days having little adventures, visiting friends, reading books at Barnes and Noble (followed by a rollicking run through the children’s book section, cleaning up the piles of books and […]

The world in first couple of weeks after a new baby are something akin to nuclear apocalypse: time freezes, the rest of the world disappears, and nothing else exists except you and the baby. When there’s only one baby, it’s remotely do-able on your own, provided you have a supportive spouse who is willing […]

I don’t know what happened, but I turned around today and realized that I’ve gone from “adorably pregnant” to “smuggling a cannon under her shirt”. I am seriously huge. This is not necessarily a bad thing, considering that I’ve only gained about 15 pounds or so in this pregnancy, but I loathe to think […]

So much has happened in just the past two weeks alone I feel like I’m in an entirely different life now, which I suppose is true in a way.

A couple of weeks ago, I started thinking about the possibility of returning to work after L.B. is born and I realized that the prospect […]

We are having the Motherload of all sick days.

The day before yesterday I came home from work to find Yonah, flushed and glassy-eyed, listlessly resting in Shuie’s lap. Needless to say he had a fever that kept him up overnight. The fever continued into yesterday, eventually spiking at 104.3. This was not the […]

I’m reading a book called “Raising a Child with Soul” by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff, daughter of the renowned teacher Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. For years, Rebbetzin Jungreis has taught a weekly parsha class at the Hineni Heritage Center on West End Avenue in New York City, right around the corner from my parents’ apartment. My mother […]