Yesterday, I went to say hello to mama bird (I guess I should have named her by now, huh?) and I thought I saw something poking around under her wings. I spent a few minutes watching her and realized that….her babies had arrived! I was so excited and I tried (tried…I really did) to call… Read More Welcome Baby Birdies!

I’ve recently made a new friend, and I’m enjoying getting to know her. She’s actually teaching me a great deal about myself, and about how to be a good mom. Here is a picture of my friend: She arrived on our windowsill about two weeks ago and began building her nest with the male partner.… Read More My New Friend

This morning, five years ago, we awoke in a friend’s house in Potomac, surrounded by 12 duffel bags. We packed the car, and drove up the hill to our recently sold house, where we would pick up our friend who was taking us to the airport in New York. Everything in the world that we… Read More 21 Amazing Things About My Life in Israel

Josh and I have tried to commit to doing something fun and different with the kids each Friday during the summer. This week, our friends invited us to spend Shabbat with them at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi. Our kids LOVE going there – what could be bad about kibbutz life for kids? They have free reign… Read More Our Golan

I can’t help but sit here feeling sentimental today. This morning, while Josh was at the arrival ceremony as part of the Nefesh B’Nefesh staff, the boys and I sat in front of the computer watching the live pod cast of the landing of the first plane of the summer. I imagine I will be… Read More Sentimental at 5

Yehuda was in a chess tournament last night and he came home ebullient! In his hands he grasped a chess t-shirt, a certificate saying he had completed the course and….a third place MEDAL! At the beginning of the year, Yehuda announced that he wanted to join an after-school chess class. “Chess?” I replied, as someone… Read More Building Their Confidence

We took the kids to the zoo this afternoon as a treat before Shabbat. We went into a relatively new and very well designed lemur exhibit. The only problem was that there didn’t seem to be any lemurs! We asked the woman who was working there where the lemurs were and she pointed to the… Read More Too Much TV or a Great Sense of Humor?

In the last 24 hours, we’ve been to the Kotel (Western Wall) to watch our adoptive soldier-son, Jeff, be sworn into the army and we’ve watched our first grade son, Yehuda, sing a portion of Beresheit by heart in Hevron at Maarat HaMachpela (the Cave of the Patriarchs where Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, Sara, Rivka… Read More An Incredible 24 Hours

Life in Israel truly cracks me up. There is such a dichotomy, at times, between the organization and the chaos. Israelis don’t always like order and routine. They don’t make their summer plans more than a month ahead of time, they call for Shabbat plans on Friday at 10am, and they think nothing of packing… Read More The Apricot Pit Game

Josh just showed me this incredible series of videos that Aish HaTorah is doing. They have, so far, created feature videos about half a dozen heroes of Israel. This one helps to show what Josh’s work, Nefesh B’Nefesh, does…and again, why we have decided to move to Israel. I seem to be completely unable to… Read More Getting Inspired All Over Again