Next time I say, “I want to go to Disneyland for my birthday”; will somebody please slap me upside the head? Why on earth didn’t I say, “I want to go to the spa for my birthday”? All joking aside, we just returned home from a seven-day adventure down in [...]

This has been a heavy week full of life. This life, with its unexpected highs, tragic lows, and everything in between continues to amaze me. On Saturday, I was informed of some sad news; I learned that a friend of mine had lost her unborn baby boy within two weeks [...]

It feels good to be wanted. It feels even better to be loved. I am glad that I am both loved and wanted in my house. Indeed, in my house there are a lot of people who seem to “want a piece of me”.   Tonight, as I finished my dinner, [...]

The question “how was your holiday?” is one that I’d rather not be answering right now. Inevitably I feel I must answer it so I have been answering it in the best way I possibly can. Yesterday when I was asked I said, “Well, at least this year we weren’t [...]

As long as I can remember, I have always been a taker. It was very easy for me to get a gift. I still love getting gifts. When I was little, I couldn’t seem to get enough, and very early on I developed a fear that some how I wasn’t [...]

Attention all single people, couples without children, friends, and relatives: Kids get sick.  And kids, like adults, often get sick around the holidays. As the winter months prevail upon us, so do colds, flus, and other ailments. As good parents, we try to prevent this. We take our kids to [...]

Yesterday was the last night of Hanukkah. Phew! I made it. I’ve said it before that Hanukkah, to my family and me (unless you ask the kids), isn’t the most important of the Jewish holidays. But even still, I found myself going as “all out” as I could. I mustered [...]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to discipline my children in public.  There have been times, in front of people, when I have bent down, looked them in the eyes, and with the sweetest, most syrupy voice said something like, “No, no, no, sweetie, we don’t do [...]

I really resisted writing a Thanksgiving blog because I felt like it was like the television shows that do their holiday episodes. I don’t really like those holiday episodes.  I find them kind of boring. My life, however, is anything but boring. I don’t think I’ve thought at one point [...]

I’ve never told anyone about this before, but I remember sitting in a therapist’s office over ten years ago. I was telling her about my uncertainty of the future and lamenting over my current mental state. I wasn’t married yet, I was childless, and I felt stuck in my life. [...]