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Baked salmon garnished with asparagus and tomatoes with herbs

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RECIPE: Challah Pizza Roll-Ups

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Instant Pot Chicken Soup Recipe That's Just Like Bubbe's

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Rachel Levy Lesser is the author of three books and mother of two children.Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post,Parenting.com,Scary Mommy,Glamour.comand The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent.When not writing Rachel enjoys practicing yoga,practicing her golf swing and nearly perfecting her baking of the chocolate chip cookie.Learn more atwww.rachellevylesser.com

parenting

The One Thing I Never Expected From My Kids

Rachel Levy Lesser

I've taught my kids a lot things.I taught them how to tie their shoes,how to use a fork,how to use a toilet,and to say "please" and "thank you." I taught them how to write a thank you… note — and a pretty damn good one at that.I taught them how to craft a thesis sentence,how to make up riddles in their heads to memorize definitions of obscure vocabulary words or hard-to-remember dates for tests.I taught them how to firmly shake a person's hand and to look that person in…>> Read More

growing up

Why I Miss BabyGap

Rachel Levy Lesser

Little girl and little boy posing at a park

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 More

health

When Does Our "Real Life" Begin—and All the Planning Ahead End?

Rachel Levy Lesser

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 More

bar/bat mitzvahs

Why I Cried at Your Bar Mitzvah

Rachel Levy Lesser

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 More

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