This past Shabbos and Sunday was Rosh Chodesh Elul. Gosh, life changes when you’re not in school anymore! I don’t have a teacher standing in front of me everyday to remind what a special time of year this is. And believe it or not, I miss that. Ok, I don’t…
This past weekend was long! I feel guilty, but I was somewhat dreading the whole thing wondering how on earth we’d survive three very long three days with no YouTube, no car rides and no breaks. Just the thought of staying in the same place for that long made my head…
How does a full-time working mom make a three-day yom tov? I have no idea. Last minute I decided that it would be too hard, so we’re going away. Luckily we have that option. I wasn’t worried about making the food. The menu I came up with was fairly simple…
Coming back from vacation feels like I never left. I think that every post I write after vacation is the same. The depressing thought that I waited so long for vacation to come and now it’s over. We had a blast over Pesach (we were all off) and took advantage…
Even though we are fortunate enough to go away for the entire Pesach, I still have a ton to do to prepare! I know that I’d have to do a whole lot more if I were making Pesach myself, but with working full-time, I have to be really organized about…
Happy Purim! I know it isn’t Purim until tomorrow, but since I’m taking the day off, I probably won’t have time to blog 😉 DH and I are both working on Ta’anis Esther, so tonight will be busy. My kids are still too young to go to Shul, so for…
Meal planning for this week’s Shabbos took me forever! We aren’t even having any guests! I think the reason it took so long is because I (desperately) need to re-stock my freezer. I see another cooking day on the way… Maybe I’ll take off a day next week, since it’s…
