The weaning seems to be continuing. I’m okay with it. Kind of. When my sister was in town recently, she said, “I wish you could be confident in the decisions you make as a mom.” She meant it in the…
Author: calm mama
dance, he said
Jonah loves music (“Mee-you-gick!” he says). He now knows that Mee-you-gick comes out of our computers and so he points and demands it when the mood strikes him. We have a few kid CDs loaded into our laptops. Tonight, we…
oakland kindergym and three-syllable words
Today is mostly a lovely day. The weather is Bay-Area gorgeous, sunny, blue skied, and just a touch on the cold side of warm. We went to the Kindergym toddler playtime at Temple Beth Abraham.Jonah messed a bit with the…
i am so tired
Lord. I am so tired. How has a week gone by with no blog post? I blame daylight savings. I guess. At night, I no longer have the energy for much of anything. I eat, watch a little TV, climb…
i am the hamantaschen
Success! I ended up using Claudia Roden’s recipe, after seeing another blogger write about it, here. I don’t think these are the cookies of my childhood but, no disrespect to Aunt Edith, I do think I like them better. Now…
the jew in the mother (the purim post)
As a kid, I hated going to temple on the holidays. Sitting in that big, cavernous sanctuary for HOURS. I didn’t see the point. At High Holidays every year, when services truly go on forever, I mostly recall falling asleep…
fellini, comic book heroes, twoword phrases
Jonah desperately loves playing with our cell phones. He likes to press buttons; he likes to hold it behind his head (his preferred phone position) and say “hiiiii;” he likes to suck on them. He’ll play with them even if…
eat your colors
It’s easy (and practically impossible not to, really) when the finger paint is made from organic vanilla pudding and a few drops of food coloring…