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The Lunch Hack That Makes It Easy to Eat a Healthy Lunch (Despite the Chaos)
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Lunch is the most difficult time for mom to prepare herself something healthy to eat. This hack may help. We’re all in survival mode right now, no matter who we are or the roles we fill. Being kind to ourselves is of utmost importance, and there’s no room for beating ourselves up about regrettable food…
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How to Get a Really Green Lawn (Even If You Have No Green Thumb)
If you think that sprucing up your lawn is something you have time for these days, you can do it yourself! (Even if you never did anything garden-related before). So I’m not the typical quarantine mom. Or maybe I am the typical, and what we’re seeing online are the atypical supermoms. In any case, my…
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How to Organize Your Kids’ Puzzles
I dig educational toys! And puzzles are one of my favorites because they are known to be great for brain development in children. Storing them, though, is a challenge. Board puzzles don’t come with boxes. Once you unwrap the new puzzle, you’ve got to have a place for it, otherwise the pieces quickly disappear. Board…
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Get The Children Involved. Or Don’t. Whatever You Decide To Do, You Can Set A Beautiful Yom Tov Table.
These place cards will be just the finishing touch that you need. We all love setting a beautiful table, especially come Yom Tov. We also know that this coming Yom Tov will be more challenging, for all of us, to make it special. Still, we wanted to bring you something pretty, yet achievable. Even more…
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How Young Couples Can Best Use Their Extra Time Together
Many young women in their first years of marriage face a not uncommon struggle. When it was just specific times spent together, you looked forward to each planned evening. Now that you’re in the same house, suddenly there is just so. much. time. Time to be together. (Shouldn’t we be… like… working on our marriage?)…
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3 Unconventional Steps to Actually Solving Bedtime Battles
Bedtime was always a struggle, and not getting kids to bed is harder than it ever was. One fine day, BCP and I got a bedtime SOS from a mother (well, to be fair — she contacted them and they forwarded her to me): I have 5 kids 10 and under (10, 8, 6, 4…
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Knafeh: the Syrian Answer to Cheesecake
You can make the best of Israeli shuk street food in your own kitchen. Editor’s note: A few years ago on a trip to Israel, I took a tour of the Machane Yehuda shuk with Tova In Israel. She introduced us to this most incredible dish and there was no turning back. Every time I…
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Moms: How Would You React to These Four Scenarios?
In every situation, there’s a positive way to react. These are four ways you can effect positive chinuch lessons in your home despite the trying circumstances. As mothers, we are currently finding ourselves in a very unique and challenging time. Let me give you several chinuch scenarios, as we try to give ourselves a reality…
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Bring Shavuos Excitement in House with These Torah Treats
How do we build excitement about the upcoming Yom Tov of Matan Torah for our youngest children? We originally created these treats for you to prepare on the occasion of your child celebrating a siyum. Or for the occasion of receiving their first siddur. Or chumash. When we make a big deal and put effort…
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Forget That File Cabinet. This is the Easiest Way to Organize Your Papers
You know how all your important papers are just laying scrambled in your top drawer? Or smushed in a cabinet? It’s haunting to approach the piles of important documents when you’re looking for something specific. Like, you know they’re supposed to be saved but those piles of papers are just getting to you. Well then,…
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