What's new with us
One boy, three parties, 13th birthday
I have no idea what I was thinking when I asked Ron if he wants a birthday party this year. Over the years we have tried to avoid throwing birthday parties in every... Read More
My inspirational talk
I have been invited to be a guest in a Facebook live of one of the millions Facebook group I’m a member in (I think it has officially reached the point of addiction... Read More
Superstitions and Job Searching
I broke the kids. We can no longer leave the house without them searching for cars with the same three digits on the license plate (in Malta all cars have, or are supposed... Read More
Invisible disabilities – Do I tell or do I hide?
Dealing with invisible disabilities, you always have the question – do I tell, or do I hide? Ever since Yon was diagnosed we had to wrestle with this question, and every time we... Read More
Where we've been
Latest Posts
January Blues
Last week of January. We are so so close to end this miserable month. You can almost feel the February in the air… I can’t believe we’ve made it. I have come to the conclusion that I need to replace August with … Read More
Snowy Weekend
I know you expect me to write insightful stuff about life and everything in it and basically to complain about everything, and it’s not that I don’t have some thoughts about romance as shown in movies these days versus real … Read More
Normal Is Overrated
Back to normal. The last ten days were supposed to be back to normal days, back to the daily routine. My parents went back to Israel, Hidai went back to work, the kids went back to school, and I spent … Read More
2012: On Fluff and Stuff
2012 In review. Sounded so easy in my mind. Everybody does it – write what you did this year, add some nice photos from every month, you know – to represent, put in some sappy comments about light and love … Read More
Christmas 2012 Recap
This is the third time I’ve started to write this new post, and hopefully third time’s a charm, because up until now every time I start something happened and changed my perspective and what I wanted to write about. The first one … Read More
Christmukah part 3 – Build-up to Christmas and Yon’s eyes
You can feel the Christmas in the air. The kids vacation started today, Hidai worked from home and have now started his vacation also, and my parents are on their way here, and I spent the whole day cleaning and getting … Read More
Christmukah part 2 – How Christmukah came to be
The truth is in real life I don’t need to justify Christmukah anymore, but this is a new blog with new readers, and maybe it’s not justifying but explaining. I was debating with myself for a week now if it’s necessary or not to explain here … Read More
Christmukah Part 1 – Hannukah
Apparently you can write Hannukah in English in like 5 different ways, so I never know what way is the correct way. I also heard it called The Jewish Christmas, which I found really funny. I go with Hannukah just … Read More
To Blog or Not To Blog, and also it’s Christmukah!
I haven’t been here for a while. Some of it is because I am spending this past few weeks half-healthy, or on the verge of yet another illness if you prefer. Some of it was because I was so so … Read More
Baking bits
I want to bake. I am at this very moment looking for an excuse to bake: it’s Sunday – lets bake, we have guests this afternoon – lets bake, it’s eleven in the morning – lets bake, and my favorite – we … Read More