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Currently: January 2021

     Loving: Cooking on the weekends, walks around frozen lakes, warmer days where we can spend time with friends outdoors, marking shabbat each week and setting aside screen-free time to connect as a family and with our family's Jewish identity, and moving in some way almost every day. 

    Listening to: The Good Ancestor Podcast (especially the most recent episode with Christine Platt), The Creative Classroom (which makes me feel inspired and creative professionally even in a topsy-turvy teaching year). 

    Reading: I've been reading a lot this month! Some favorite reads this month include: The Warmth of Other Suns, The Mothers, The Unhoneymooners, Transcendent Kingdom, and When the Stars are Scattered. 

    Watching: The Queen's Gambit, His Dark Materials, and Bridgerton. 

    Grateful for: Time spent walking around the neighborhood and reading with Avi. Thinking through parenting inspired by Montessori without getting to caught up in doing it perfectly. President Biden and Vice President Harris. My church. Health (for my family and myself). Amazing students and a job I love. 

    Struggling with: anxiety around the pandemic, quarantines, white supremacy and anti-semitism, particularly at the capitol. I feel like I've hit the pandemic wall a few times this month. I definitely miss seeing family and having them see Avi at this age. Toddler food throwing has also been frustrating this month. 

    Learning About: chess! Joel and I got on the Queen's Gambit bandwagon, and I love learning about the strategy.  

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  1. Grateful KaeJanuary 26, 2021 at 4:22 AM

    Wow, that's so impressive you've read so many books already this month! When do you do most of your reading time? Here I am feeling proud that I've completed TWO books already this month- and maybe will reach my goal of reading 3 total this month! :) (And I kind of feel like I've ben reading pretty often/regularly!! Though we were out of town for a week, so I barely read that week at all). I have a couple of the books you read on my list already- will have to check out the others.

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    1. SamJanuary 26, 2021 at 4:54 AM

      I read mostly before bed on the weekdays. On weekends I tend to read more when Avi's napping because it's a quiet activity that doesn't wake her up. I think I read so much this month because we have been trying to reduce screen time during shabbat (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown), so it freed up some weekend time.

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