2019 - damn were you a year. Like everyone else on the planet, there were highs and lows and days that just felt fine. 2019 brought me lessons, laughter and my fair share of tears. 2019 brought me travel and adventure with the people I care about. So before 2019 melts into the other years, … Continue reading 2019: A Year in Review
One of my goals for 2020 is to write more. I think I hesitate to write because I want it to be "pretty" - if I don't have a cute photo to use as the headline, whats the point?! I want to get away from that. I feel better when I write (and ramble). Right … Continue reading Life, Lately – Winter Break Edition
Pregnancy is meant to be one of the happiest periods of your life. There's nothing like that feeling of growing a whole new human in your womb. It overpowers the nausea, sleepless nights and body pains that come with the magic. I am happy about this pregnancy. I've been waiting for this for a long … Continue reading Seasonal Affective Disorder and Pregnancy
Tah-dah! I'm pregnant. Knocked up. Bun is in THE oven (I don't even like bread though - we'll pretend it's a cassava flour challah or something). At the moment, I'm 11 weeks pregnant. I am so close to being out of the first trimester and into the safety of the second. Over the last few … Continue reading My First Post… On Pregnancy
Today, we had an active shooter drill. Yesterday, there was another school shooting. Another one. My students handled the drill well. They didn't question it. They complied. They each quietly left their seats and huddled under the computer tables. Several helped me to lower the blinds and cover the windows with paper. They understand what … Continue reading Today In School…
I saw this at a bookstore in Auckland and it made me stop. It also made me giggle a little. Was the store implying that religion and happiness are one and the same? Were they just short on shelf space and had to consolidate? Religion is an interesting thing to me. Personally, I was raised … Continue reading On Judaism/Religion/Happiness
We have a scratch off map at home with all the countries we've been to, and I'm having a serious moral dilemma. Can I scratch off North Korea now that we've been to the DMZ?! When we were in Korea a few weeks ago, we booked a tour to go to the DMZ - the … Continue reading A Casual Day at the DMZ
Dear 5 year old Jeanette... It's okay that you don't look like everyone else in your classroom. One day, you'll appreciate the intricacies of who you are and where your family comes from. Dear 13 year old Jeanette... I know you feel like an outsider again, and maybe you are. It will pass and you … Continue reading Dear Me, Love Me
After our brief visit to Singapore, we moseyed on over to Seoul, South Korea. Going into this trip, I had an idea of what most of the places would be like, but Korea was an unknown for me. If you asked me what I knew about Korea, the most I could give you would be … Continue reading Discovering the Heart and S(e)oul of South Korea
I'm trying to write all these thoughts out before too much time passes so that the details are still clear in my memory. Today is July 29th and we are 11 days into our 5 week trip through Asia and Australia. So I guess all of this word vomit is 11 days old. We left … Continue reading Singapore: Too Perfect?
