November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month (NEAM) and every year, I try to shine a spotlight on different topics related to seizures and epilepsy. You may have read in my previous blog post or elsewhere that 1 in 26 people will develop epilepsy in their lifetime, so it is more common than you might think! …
Several months ago, I wrote a post about tips to go to Costco. I recently went food shopping there and I actually remembered to take pictures of some of my favorite products and I wanted to share that with you. Not everything is worth buying at Costco! It is important to become familiar with the …
I wanted to call this post ‘Halloween hacks’ but as someone who didn’t grow up with this holiday, that title didn’t ring true. Celebrating Halloween with children has truly been a fun but chaotic adventure that I have been navigating as best as possible the last couple of years. I always imagine living in Buenos …
If you told me fifteen years ago that I would be going apple picking and frolicking around pumpkin patches, I would have laughed in your face. For a long period of my life, Fall wasn’t even a season I acknowledged (thank you, Florida). Then, I moved to the Northeast and I learned about pumpkin spice …
Fall is definitely here. School feels like it’s already been happening for months. Sports and weekend activities are in full swing. There is often not a minute to waste and easy “no-cook” meals can be a life-saver. If you search for this type of meals on Google, you may end up with a lot of …
As some of you might know, we just started a long stretch of many Jewish holidays. The first one, Rosh Hashanah, is the Jewish New Year. Next week, there will be a fast as part of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. We were fortunate to be able to travel to South Florida to spend …
I initially was going to write a post about what type of food children could start making on their own but I think I overestimated my children’s maturity when it comes to these matters. For what it’s worth, the Internet tells me that by age 8, our children should be fully involved in packing their …
It has only been a week since school started for us and it already feels like summer never happened. Without careful planning, dinner can easily be an afterthought at best (take out, anyone?) or a full-blown disaster of screaming children, burnt food, and unhealthy choices. My slow-cooker (Crockpot) has been a life-saver for years now. …
I picked this topic for the blog a few months ago when I was doing my content planning thinking that I would feel overwhelmed as summer came to a close and school was starting, not knowing what a crazy month August would be. It turns out it is a good follow-up to last week’s blog …
Talking about grief was not my intention for this week’s blog post but life is always throwing curveballs at us and I decided to break from my previously planned schedule and write about grief and loss. There is never really a good time to talk about grief, but there were too many untimely deaths in …