home alone… Yesterday, which already feels like thousands of moons ago (but was really only one lunar eclipse ago), B took the kids skiing. Alone. Without me. Because I stayed home and went to work. The big deal here, in case you haven’t caught on yet, is that I have never been left alone before [...]

Previously posted at SJCS blog. I never thought we were a day school family. It was always a given that our children would go to public schools the same way my husband and I did. We were practicing Jews—we lit candles on Shabbos, were members of a synagogue, observed traditional holidays and kept kosher at [...]

This afternoon I took a a scenario based engineering course where I learned that I basically don’t know how to draw anymore. Apparently this isn’t anything too newsworthy. Apparently it’s a fact that for most people, once they learn to read, their drawing abilities decline massively. Apparently six year olds are much better drawers than [...]