by Carla Naumburg | Aug 28, 2013 | Huffington Post, The Jewish Advocate
I actually Googled the words “Crash Course Rosh Hashanah” on a recent night. Don’t get me wrong. I know what Rosh Hashanah is all about. For me, it’s about taking stock of the past year — how I’ve grown, where I’ve missed the...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 16, 2013 | Huffington Post, The Jewish Advocate
My older daughter will turn 5 at the end of October, which means that this is her last year of preschool. It also means that my husband and I have an important decision to make about where she will go to kindergarten. Do we send our girls to Jewish day school or not?...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 1, 2013 | Judaism, The Jewish Advocate
Two weeks ago, I went on a trip to my home state of New Mexico. By myself. As in, without kids. I was gone from Thursday morning until Sunday night, and my husband took care of our girls (ages 4.5 and 3). This was only the third time in nearly five years of parenting...
by Carla Naumburg | Jul 17, 2013 | The Jewish Advocate
I remember the first time we took a real summer vacation as a family of four. Our daughters were 1 and 2½ years old, and we were going to spend a week on Cape Cod with my in-laws, Bubbe and Zeide (not their real names). In preparation for the trip, I started to make a...
by Carla Naumburg | Jul 5, 2013 | The Jewish Advocate
My first experience as a Jewish mother in the Boston area came when I was several months pregnant. As my husband and I had chosen not to learn the sex of the baby, I needed to find a mohel in case we had a son. A quick online search revealed a number of options, so I...
