family

Traditions have power. They can be like the glue to hold a family together in my opinion, keeping hearts united even when they are far apart. Especially when the “big” kids spread their wings that take them to new places. I remember still holding on to my growing-up family traditions…

I came across this picture the other day and it made me stop in my tracks. Because I love them. So much. And sometimes I take it for granted that I get to live with them. And snuggle up with them. And talk with them. And send them off into…

Ideas to Hold a Family Council I’ve mentioned before how it felt to grow up in a family that held “Family Councils.” I don’t think most of the time we actually called them that, because they were pretty casual affairs. But we gathered together in our living room, sitting on…

We have been having some family Zoom calls on Sundays lately with my family. A couple weeks ago I posed a question to everyone that my brother Tal had brought up with me in a previous conversation. (Tal is the brother who lives in Switzerland and had introduced me to…

I have been thinking so much lately about this: What is different about how Dave and I parent our younger kids compared to our deliberation with our older kids? Do we really teach our younger kids like we have taught our older kids? Sure, we’re with them more, and there’s…

I know I’ve probably mentioned this ten billion times before, but one of Dave and my favorite quotes is “You’ll find what you’re looking for.” Whether bad or good, you can find it. In anyone. In anything. This comes up on a continual basis. With parenting, with each other, with…

Throughout all this pandemic this home of ours has been filled with life. The numbers have gone from settling into having two kids home last school year, oh so quiet, to having everyone home for a few different stints. When we realized how quickly our days all together as a…

I’m trying to figure out how to ever catch up in this space! A space to record what is happening in our family. It seems strange to go on recording every-day events when the world is in such turmoil. I have also wondered if it is taking too much time…

I’m trying to write about some of the things we did when we got EVERYONE home during the quarantine, but I’m getting overwhelmed with too many pictures. So here’s a separate post about one night when we rode bikes through the slanted evening sun (back when it wasn’t cook-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk type…

I have some big stuff to post about hopefully tomorrow, but since I’m having trouble getting all the pictures situated for that, for now let’s go back to one of my favorite nights of the quarantine, when every one of our kids were here and someone had the grand idea…