What are you grateful for? Yes I really am late for the party. I know Thanksgiving has passed, because I missed all of the last couple of weeks. Ok, who am I kidding, I've somehow managed to miss all of November. I haven't read enough, liked enough or laughed enough this month, and somehow managed to miss writing regular posts on time. Including this one. I have tons of excuses, all the way form "I...
November 30, 2013
November 28, 2013
Happy Hannukah - Expat Holidays
Yesterday was the first day of Hannukah. It is, by far, my preferred Jewish holiday. Well, how can you not like a holiday that demands you eat doughnuts for eight days? True, by the end of it we all look somewhat like a doughnut - rounder around the middle and full of jam - but it's more than that. Contrary to what people outside of Israel think, Hannukah isn't really one of the biggest or most important...
November 25, 2013
Meeting the Prime Minister - internet safety for kids discussion
Last Friday Good Housekeeping Magazine invited me to participate in a discussion about Children's safety on the internet. All you have to do, they said, is head over to the House of Commons and ask Claire Perry some questions (and as we discovered upon arrival - also the Prime Minister. Thankfully they haven't told us before about meeting the PM. I think I would have been even more nervous). No biggie....
November 21, 2013
Learning to read
"There's an airplane in the sky" was the sentence that brought ears to my eyes last week and made my heart jump inside my chest at the same time. Because in the moment Yon said that sentence I forgot that there is no way he can really see that airplane, I forgot that he is sensitive to sounds and is probably just hearing it, I forgot everything I know about his condition and all I had in my head was...
November 18, 2013
Baking and autumn hope
Not all those who wander are lost. I've been thinking about this phrase a lot this last couple of weeks. Maybe because I feel I am. Lost, that is. I have been feeling low and unwell and lost for the past couple of weeks. I've tried writing positive things in hopes that it will cheer me up but I am not a cheerful-inspirational kind of person so unfortunately it did not work as planned and I got some...
November 11, 2013
Blogfest 2013
I went to Blogfest 2013 on Saturday. Seeing how Blogfest is an annual conference for bloggers organised by Mumsnet, it was meant for what is sometimes called "mummy-bloggers". Mostly it's called like that by people who try to insult us, because, as I learnt in Blogfest - "mummy" is a derogative word when not coming out of a five years old's mouth. Feel free to disagree. I know I did.
Going to Blogfest...
November 7, 2013
Can you get help?
On Monday, November 1st Katie Price gave an interview on BBC radio 5. I know who Katie Price is mainly through my reading of Heat Magazine, and if we discount the fact that it took me a very long time to understand that Katie Price and Jordan are the same person (hey, I am still new to this country!), I think I have a rather good knowledge of her public life. I didn't know, however, that she has a...
November 4, 2013
Medical avoidance
When it comes to health problems I make a very clear distinction between my own and others. I have never been on the "let's wait and see" side of things when it comes to other people's health issues. I come from a long line of hypochondriacs and self-medicating crazies who never leave the house without at least one purse filled with drugs inside their bag, and Hidai is the son of a doctor whose...
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