How To Live Through A Renovation
It’s not that I think contractors, painters and tile guys are exclusively greedy, deceitful incompetent people – I think they are just poor businessmen or women!
Staying Cool During Summer Heat
One summer, I managed to go the entire season without an air conditioner in my bedroom.
How To Make Pesach Cleaning Stress Free!
I think if we can be honest with ourselves, most women will admit to enjoying Pesach cleaning - and perhaps to even looking forward to it all year long.
How To Make Sheva Brochot
It’s easy to get excited and start hunting for the perfect shade of champagne tablecloth to match the exact color of the bridesmaid dresses, or to insist that each guest must have a wine glass, water glass and soda glass.
Hop On Board The AliExpress
Shopping on AliExpress requires some planning.
How To Paint A Room
If done properly, painting a room can be done in just a few hours with minimal cleanup. The key is, of course, preparation.
Summer Food Fun
Somehow, no matter how you choose to spend your down time, food always manages to factor into the equation.
Something Sweet: Simply Spectacular
A quick look at margarine-less chocolate chip cookies offers a good look at what Pascal and Overtime Cook are all about.
How To DIY
Do we really have that much extra money to throw away on substandard products and shoddy service? I think not.
How to Do A Staycation
While hibernating at home may feel like the best thing to do during the winter, there are plenty of outside activities to take advantage of, the most popular being ice skating.
How To Get Back Into School!
The best way to prepare your child for the best year possible is, of course, by preparing.
How To Travel With Children
Either bring blankets from home or get from the flight attendants. Bring sweatshirts for added coziness as the blankets are sure to fall off.
Let Them Eat Bread
I take all my challah ingredients, throw them in the breadmaker, turn on the machine and walk out of my kitchen. Ninety minutes later, I have a gorgeous batch of challah dough with no work and practically no mess to clean up.
V’nahafoch Hu – Turn The Work Into Simcha
While we prepare, we can share our positive insights and how-tos, and recipes, and keep raising the happiness level all around.
How To Vacation Just For Two
Does standing under the chuppah signal the end of our dream of romance and beautiful sunsets?
Our Kosher World: The Pesach Palate
Pesach Magazine
How To Get Enough Sleep
But how to get sleep when you just can’t relax enough or find yourself waking up at random times during the night?
How To Make Chanukah An Unforgettable Experience
I am a huge fan of shared family experiences...
Just Say No
We are living in a society where the bar gets raised higher and higher every year, and where today's splurge becomes tomorrow's necessity.
Setting Up A Newlywed’s Apartment
To avoid all this waste and unnecessary anxiety, let’s break the task down step by step and tackle each one at a time.
Make It Or Buy It?
In recent months I have found there are certain things not worth buying and with the help of everyone’s best friend, Google, recipes for some of them are literally at the tip of your fingers.
Lotsa Matzah
So what to do with all that crunchy stuff?
How To Have Guests And Still Enjoy Your Meal
I feel that I am a good authority to write on this topic, because although I love having guests, it completely stresses me out. Something happens to me when we have guests over; I feel this urge to have the table perfect, the food innovative, delicious and abundant and my children buffed and shiny. When things don’t turn out well, it’s not exactly pretty.
How To Teach Your Children About Money
I am of the opinion that children’s money belongs to them, and if they want to blow it on junk from the local discount store, that is their prerogative.
How To Make Purim Sameach!
There’s nothing like a holiday where one is required to be happy to bring out the grouch in all of us. But we should all be excited to greet Purim. Not only because of the beautiful miracle that occurred, the lessons of emunah and the role of the Jewish woman that Megillas Esther teaches us, but also because it’s the only twenty-four hour holiday that we celebrate here in Chutz L’Aretz, and it has merely four mitzvot! How simple is that?
Cell Phone Gadgets
As always, when it comes to electronics, you get what you pay for.
How To Make An Upsherin
This past Lag B'Omer, we were blessed to make our first upsherin, where we celebrate our son’s first hair cut. It’s a wonderful milestone that mimics the three years that we refrain from plucking a tree’s first fruits and symbolizes the entry of the child into the world of Torah learning. It’s a clear sign to everyone; this boy is no longer a baby.
Pantry Proud
A coat of paint in a cheerful color or a roll or two of wallpaper can definitely inject a touch of style into your pantry.