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The First Year in Our House!

On September 3, 2011 · 14 Comments · In Good Stuff, Judaism, Milestones

We’ve paid off 1/30th of our mortgage!

We have been in our house for a year as of today (technically as of about 4:30pm today, but who’s counting). This time last year, we watched Hurricane Earl rolling across the Salem Harbor as we signed our deed. This year, we’re [...]

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You Asked, I Answer: Fun and Deep Stuff

On August 26, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Adoption, Blogs, Donor Egg, Faith, Family, Good Stuff, Judaism, Marriage, Travel

Thank you to everyone who submitted a question to my Formspring this week! This has been a really neat experience. I’ll keep this intro short, as you all asked me a ton of great questions. So many, in fact, I need to break all my answers down into two posts. Today, I’ll answer the Fun [...]

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5 Infertility Books for Great Summer Reads: Good Eggs

On July 1, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Book Reviews, Coping and Emotions, IVF, Judaism, Marriage, RESOLVE, Reviews

Welcome back to my Infertility Summer Reading review series! Tune in every other Friday this summer for a new review. Check out the schedule of reviews below. You can even grab your own copy of the books reviewed by clicking the book covers under the Infertility Summer Reading List to the right. Feel free to start [...]

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Blog Tour of Inspired Reading: The Red Tent

On June 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Blogs, Book Reviews, Faith, Judaism, Reviews, Women's Empowerment, Writing

Today’s post is in conjunction with the Blog-A-Licious Blog Tour: a fantastic blog hop that brings together bloggers of all genres, backgrounds and locations. In today’s hop, the blog featured before mine is Karen’s But I Digress. The blog featured after me is the [...]

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Infertile Women of the Torah: Resourceful Hannah

On June 10, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Coping and Emotions, Faith, Infertile Women of the Torah, Judaism, Women's Empowerment

The Infertile Women of the Torah is an occasional series here at Hannah Wept, Sarah Laughed that examines the role of infertility in the Torah (Old Testament). Engraving by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1851).

In my last post, I introduced the idea [...]

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The Infertile Women of The Torah: Infertility in Biblical Judaism

On May 20, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Coping and Emotions, Faith, Hope, Infertile Women of the Torah, Judaism, Women's Empowerment

Marc Chagall (1956): Hannah prays to the Lord for a son who will be Samuel

My page titled Who Are Hannah and Sarah? consistently gets the second highest number of views on this blog, besides the main page. It makes sense: neither are my name [...]

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The Matzo Balls Are Coming.

On April 15, 2011 · 12 Comments · In Faith, Food, IF-Free Zone, Judaism

This post is part of the IF-Free Zone: a commitment to blogging about something other than my infertility journey every now and then. Why blog off-topic? We are more than our infertility. So enjoy another installment in the IF-Free Zone series. [...]

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