Pre-pesach, the country seems to go through a moodiness phase. I am not kidding. I saw friends of mine, usually happy, chirpy people wandering around looking seriously miserable before the chag, and I wandered what on earth was wrong with them. They just seemed so down! The minute the chag is over, kids are back …
I am sure I am not the first mummy in the world to hear that line. But for some reason, I was told this is a bad thing. Having spent some months trying to justify my children’s attitude, I am starting to wonder why I am bothering. Is it so bad that they are not …
I don’t even remember what I used to do on Purim in London. It all seems so long ago. I think I went to a largely unmemorable megillah reading. The odd rubbish party. I remember having fun shpieling (aka door-to-door chugging) as a teenager in Golders Green. One especially memorable year we dressed up as …
Well we had to try it. Sitting in a Chinese restaurant on a visit to Tel Aviv, enjoying all the old favourites… hot and sour soup, Szechuan beef and sesame rice balls… Husband suggested we open our own mini take-out in our yishuv. After all, we eat Asian food half the week in any case, …
It was a dark and breezy night. You could see every star in the sky. The bride wore a slinky dress and flip-flops. The groom looked calm and unruffled. This was a wedding the likes of which I had never seen before. Perhaps I just don’t go to the right sort of weddings. An Israeli …
Well we finally did it. After about 2 years of “when are you going to cut his hair” we decided that the time was right. Our little boy was just getting too pretty. And frankly we couldn’t stand the stress in the shower. After all, the whole advantage with boys is no tears with hair-brushing, …
A recent BBC News article (‘Afternoon naps’ aid children’s learning) highlights the importance of children (as well as toddlers) having an afternoon nap. This was an american study, and perhaps this was why the results were focused on the childrens memory recall and task performance. I would be more interested in this regard to the …
A new wave of excitement has come over this blog, as it now has a Facebook page. All thanks to Husband, I must add. I am a self-confessed Luddite. I have had scores of “welcome” to Facebook messages. I actually still receive Facebook invites via email (do people seriously think that I haven’t heard of …
you def need stamina, thats for sure. If you don’t have that, then don’t try this at home folks. Since we are officially poor, and poor people have to go on free holidays, we decided to go camping. The galil is packed with gorgeous camping spots and our neighbours have all the gear so why …
If you ask somebody of about my age, married, with little kiddies, what is holding them back from Aliyah, one of the reasons they will most likely give is the lack of family. What they really mean is, the lack of hands-on HELP from grandparents! Raising small children without support from the older generation is …