children, maternity leave, parenthood, pregnancy, pregnant, pressure

Kate & Tammy: Killing The Rest of Us Softly

I’m feeling conflicted about recent current events involving moms and their newborn babies. On the one hand, it’s so important for women to be able to feel good about themselves, to embrace their pregnant and post-pregnant bodies and to juggle it all. From this point of view, I applaud Senator Tammy Duckworth for bringing her… Read More Kate & Tammy: Killing The Rest of Us Softly

children, differences, parenthood, physical disability

Grabbing the Teaching Moments of Our Lives

There’s nothing as great as a teaching moment…except for a teaching moment that turns even more exceptional in the course of the day. Yesterday morning, as we were getting ready for school, Eliav came into the kitchen and said, “Look Mommy. I don’t have any hands.” Yes, virtually every child in the history of the… Read More Grabbing the Teaching Moments of Our Lives

accidents, birthday, birthday vacation, children, friendship

It Takes a Village…and an Awesome Husband

When people say “It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” they’ve clearly been in my neighborhood before. Because it does, indeed, take a village at times, and I feel privileged to live in such an amazing village, with such an amazing husband. And no, Hillary Rodham Clinton didn’t create that expression; she just used… Read More It Takes a Village…and an Awesome Husband