by Carla Naumburg | Mar 19, 2014 | Kveller.com
I see that sheet of paper every time I drop the girls off at preschool. There’s a green one in my older daughter’s classroom and a yellow one in my younger daughter’s. Each page has three columns: one for your name, one for the date, and one for the color...
by Carla Naumburg | Jan 14, 2014 | Kveller.com
I had forgotten so much of it. How could have I have forgotten? I probably watched the movie hundreds of times when I was a child. I knew every single line, from Jane and Michael’s job description for a new nanny to the jokes that Bert and Uncle Albert told when they...
by Carla Naumburg | Dec 6, 2013 | Kveller.com
We got married on Sunday, December 7, 2003. (Yeah, yeah, I know, the Day That Will Live in Infamy. In our case, it was more like the Day That the Rabbi Was Available.) It was a sunny, beautiful day, with nearly three feet of snow on the ground. One of the largest...
by Carla Naumburg | Nov 12, 2013 | Kveller.com
Two years ago, I wrote these words in a post for Kveller: “We’re trying something new this year. Instead of giving gifts, we’re going to focus on experiences that honor Hanukkah for what it is, and don’t try to make it into something it’s not.” Last year, I wrote a...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 4, 2013 | Kveller.com
I had been thinking about it all week. Josh was out of town for work, and for the first time in a long time, he wouldn’t be home for Shabbat. It would be my job to make Shabbat. Seeing as how Josh and I have been lighting candles on Friday nights since we first moved...
by Carla Naumburg | Oct 2, 2013 | Kveller.com
“Thank you. Thank you for going away. It was really nice for me to be able to spend so much time with the girls. We had a great time.” My husband said those words to me last week, as we were discussing the week before, when I had been away for four and a half days on...
