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Why I Miss BabyGap
When I was a new mom,I adored BabyGap.The whole concept was brilliant: Dress your babies in clothes that you would wear,only smaller.The simple fact that these clothes were so small made them… cute.When my son was a baby,I dressed him in BabyGap argyle socks and BabyGap soft knit winter hats — the ones with the earflaps on them.He also wore BabyGap khaki pants that looked just like the ones my husband wore,only the baby ones had snaps down the legs to make diaper…>> Read MoreWhen Does Our "Real Life" Begin—and All the Planning Ahead End?
I am a planner.I like to write my plans down in my paper calendar,and I derive great pleasure in looking ahead at the calendar to see what's on the horizon.This past summer,in a massive purge… of old boxes in my basement,I found a slew of calendars from my past.I laughed out loud at my younger self,perusing through my high school wall calendar,which included such events as History test,school dance and sleepover at friend's house.Those calendars almost always included some sort of colorful count down…>> Read MoreWhy I Cried at Your Bar Mitzvah
On the Sunday evening after our son's bar mitzvah,the bar mitzvah boy turned to me over brunch leftovers served as dinner and very honestly and curiously asked me,"Mom,how come you cried at my… bar mitzvah?" I tried as best as I could on the spot to explain to my boy-turned-man what I was feeling at services the previous morning.I gave him a rather canned answer—something about loving him and being proud of him and missing my own mother.He nodded and later that night went back to…>> Read MoreHome Delivery
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