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Mommy’s Little Girl

By |2021-02-25T12:39:19-05:00February 1, 2015|

My four-year-old daughter loves to play house. Typical of a four-year-old girl, she usually wants to be the mommy. Often when she isn’t even playing she considers herself a mother to her dolls and stuffed animals. She leaves me with instructions for how to care for them while she is in school. So I wasn’t surprised when she started talking about becoming a mother for real, iy”H. One [...]

A Simchah Despite The Sorrow

By |2021-02-25T12:39:19-05:00January 20, 2015|

A year and a half ago I made a bar mitzvah. My son was the first grandchild on my side of the family. He was born a year and half after my brother passed away at the young age of fourteen. My son was named after my brother, and my parents felt a measure of comfort then. They were involved and loving grandparents. Although it was a long-distance [...]

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