Never collected the names and addresses of all your friends and family before? Here’s how to get started and get it all organized. In this post, I’m going to focus on creating a bar mitzvah guest list for a few reasons: That’s the only type of guest list I have experience writing. For most people,…
Life Management
The Master Kallah List for Setting Up a Home
You might not need it all, but it’s helpful to have a list to reference! As a complement to this post which includes a week-by-week guide for planning a wedding and helping a new couple establish their home, I’ve compiled this checklist. Obviously, not every kallah needs every item on the following list. We tried…
No Cleaning Help? The Easy, Quick, and Practical Way to Clean the Bathroom
There may be some shortcuts involved, but at least the cleaning bathroom chore gets done! I don’t have cleaning help, I work and I have three little kids. And keeping a clean house does not come naturally to me. House work is not my thing. My goal is to make the cleaning work as easy…
How to Toilet Train Your Toddler
Practical tips and steps to make the process stress-free for both of you. I never thought I would write a post on toilet training. Before I start, while training has gone smoothly for most of my children, there was one time that it didn’t. That one child completely demoralized my confidence in my ability to…
Clever Elly and Between Carpools in a Great Success of Jewish Geography
Read about how a comment on a Between Carpools post is making a change in Israeli car safety! Late last summer, we shared a post from a mom who accidentally left her baby in the car. While that story ended well, B”H, she shared in the hopes of raising awareness amongst our readers of the…
Planning a Simcha? 10 Things Your Makeup Artist Wants You to Know
Is there a wedding coming up? Mazel tov! A makeup artist shares these helpful tips. Do you have a large family? Find out how many people your makeup artist is comfortable doing in one day, and don’t try to push in more. You don’t want to risk her being exhausted later in the day, or…
So Many Emotions, So Many Emotions. What Are We Supposed to Feel After a Tragedy?
What a heartrending parsha all of us in klal Yisrael are experiencing together these days. From every corner of the world, Yidden have been touched, deeply moved, profoundly impacted, by the indescribable tragedy. All of us are in mourning, each in our own way. Some of us are crying copious tears, our eyelids heavy and…
Why Punishment and Rewards Don’t Really Work With Our Kids
Punishments, rewards, threats and bribes may not be the best solution. Why do we always resort to that and what are our alternatives? Generation after generation, humanity has taught that good behavior should be rewarded (do good and earn a sticker or a prize!) while bad behavior will be punished (time outs and detention). We…
Our Best Tips for Working From Home
You may not know this, but the entire Between Carpools operation is run from our homes. Most of our other work is from home, too. So between the five of us, we’ve accumulated quite a bit of experience being a WAHM. We had a conversation where we put together some of our best tips and…
4 Ways a Working Mom Can Create Work-Life Balance
There are so many people who want us at once. Things seem crazy and hectic. So how does a working mom find balance? A working mom can be pulled in so many directions, and it’s not really possible to be everywhere at once and to be everything to everyone at once. So how to we…