Category Archives: family

Welcome to Holland

After all of these years with an autistic boy it’s hard to imagine that I had not seen this essay before a few days ago. Please read and forward to your friends. WELCOME TO HOLLAND byEmily Perl Kingsley. I am … Continue reading

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The Four Questions

Now that Passover is just upon us it is time for me to do some blogging. We have been a bit behind in our Passover planning this year and it will be the smallest Sedarim that I can recall. The … Continue reading

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Autism Awareness Month

April has been designated as Autism Awareness Month. April 2nd has the official designation by the UN as World Autism Awareness Day and in the US we have extended this for the whole month. Many readers of my blog know … Continue reading

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Washington DC Day 4

Today ended up a pretty good day. I need to get to sleep so I’ll just give the highlights. We drove to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to see if they had tickets available, and sure enough, we were … Continue reading

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Washington DC Day 3

The past two days we have driven into DC with my in-laws in one car. Either they dropped us off or we just went to the lot with them. Today, however, we were going in different directions so we drove … Continue reading

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Washington DC Day 2

We got a nice start to our second day of touring in DC and we went first to the Museum of National History. There we saw the Hope Diamond and the wonderful butterfly exhibit. Here is a photo of Shayna … Continue reading

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Washington DC Day 1

The trip to DC was actually a nice ride, despite the traffic. Since my in-laws were with us, we went down in two cars. This allowed us to split the boys. Noam went in my in-laws car and Avi in … Continue reading

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Vacation

It has again been some time since I have written in my blog. The past month has been somewhat difficult for us. Avi began camp and had some great days there but then started to have some difficulties when things … Continue reading

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Passover Seder

Four days and counting! Not a lot of time left, and a ton of things to do. I think we are probably either on schedule or just behind to get everything done. Of course that means more late nights coming … Continue reading

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Your Mother Should Know

How to make Gefilte Fish that is! I just had to throw in another Beatles title. If there ever was a dish that was quintessentially Jewish, Gefilte Fish is probably that dish, or at least in a very small list. … Continue reading

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