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…
i was wrong about the bribes, and the weaning
I was wrong. The bubbles bribe only worked that one time. Oh well. Moving on… I was also wrong about weaning. Sort of. He nursed before bed tonight. Though I stopped him short of nursing himself to sleep. I just…