This year, a full 17 years after 9/11, and about 30 years since I had been to the top of the Twin Towers with with my dad, I decided to take my kids up to the top of One World Trade.
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04/03/18
That Time I Lost Harlow
It was about a year and a half ago. And I never wrote about it because I felt so awful and embarrassed. But with a little distance, it feels more like a parental rite of passage. Everyone has at least one story.
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03/20/18
Coughing and Sneezing in Mexico
All last week, I was feeling great. New York was freezing, but we were gearing up for spring break vacation.
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This week was the National School Walkout. Mazzy and Harlow’s school gave the option to the 5th-8th graders to walk out, but didn’t mention it to the lower school students.
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03/01/18
My 8 Worst Breast Pumping Moments
Every working mom who continues to breastfeed after returning to the office is more than familiar with THE PUMP.
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01/23/18
Our Family is Growing Up
As much as I want to freeze us all in time and make sure we don’t age another day, the kids are getting older and our family dynamic is shifting.
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01/18/18
You’ve Only Got One Smile
My dad used to joke around that a have a million dollar smile. It wasn’t a compliment. It’s because I’ve had braces three times.
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Last week, the flu took us down. HARD. It put a stop to pretty much everything else going on. I wrote this post so you’d know we are still alive.
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Mazzy walked into the living room last night during the Golden Globes (she was supposed to be sleeping) and immediately asked, “Why is everyone wearing black?”
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01/08/18
How We Spent Our Winter Break
From Christmas morning to New Year’s Eve to four cross country flights, here’s how we spent our vacation.
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In previous years, my most liked photos on Instagram have always been the cutest photos of my kids, but this year, there was a lot more at stake.
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The holiday season is a little nuts at our house, because we don’t just have Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas to contend with, we have all four of our birthdays too.
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We decided to switch up our normal NYC holiday routine and head out to Dyker Heights to see a Brooklyn neighborhood that goes totally over-the-top with their Christmas decor.
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12/18/17
8 Ways We Celebrate Hanukkah
This post is really for my non-Jewish readers anyway, since every year, I get a lot of questions from people asking me to explain what our Hanukkah traditions mean.
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12/08/17
Movie Night at the Wiles House
In our house, Friday night is movie night. The girls live and die for movie night. It’s a throw-the-rules-out-the-window kind of night.
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