The Lederman Kitchen

Another month has come and gone.  Sydney turned 7 months on January 9th.  The older I get, the quicker time goes.  I just learned that when the work day was established, it was decided that people would work 8 hours, sleep 8 hours and have 8 hours to themselves.  I'm happy to report that I am getting my 8 hours of sleep, and I'm definitely working 8 hours but it's those last 8 hours that seems to go by way too quickly.   This was a busy month.  There was a lot to celebrate: Hanukkah, Christmas and Brian's 33rd Birthday.  And, we also hit a number of new milestones.  First solid foods, started rolling from belly to back (finally), started rolling around her play mat and started waving.  At first it was a frantic full arm wave, but she has refined it a bit.  Her daycare calls it a "princess wave".  She also started saying "ma maa ma"(although I love it, she has no idea what it means), started sleeping on her belly and sort of sta...

I don't think we really appreciated our trip to Marrakech as much as we should have.  Looking back at the photos and remembering our time there, it was incredible.  But, at the time, it was a tough trip for us.  Brian and I just found out I was pregnant, and it was too early to tell our friend Linda who was traveling with us.   The easy part was not drinking.  We couldn't find a beer or bottle of wine anywhere in Marrakech. We went to one fancy dinner and we were all shocked that they didn't serve alcohol. The hard part were the fumes and my exhaustion.  Because of the heat, most of the small alleyways/streets were covered, and all day long motorcycles would zip around leaving their exhaust behind.  I was so worried about breathing the air since I had been reading about how my baby's major organs were developing that week.  On top of that, I was in the period of pregnancy where I was just exhausted, so walking around all day and night was t...