5786 In Review

As I’ve noted to myself, I switch off between years of obvious milestones and years where the achievements are more subtle. This past year is one of the former; it’s been hectic and overwhelming and exhilarating and poignant - in my personal AND professional lives!

This year, I:

• Stopped using Goodreads to track books and just read

• Was a “Jew in the pew” for the first time in my married life

• Finished my first year of teaching with minimal trauma and maximal nachas

• Honed in on my personal style

• Supported Samuel through a transitional career year

• Moved to Long Island for a new pulpit

• Graduated with my MA in Jewish Education

• Spoke at two college Hillels about Reproductive Justice

• Completed my first scholar-in-residence gig for Repro Shabbat

• Witnessed my daughter’s first best-friendship

• Successfully made adult friends in the same life stage of “raising small children”

• Balanced pregnancy symptoms with parenting and working

• Delivered my son just how I had hoped (albeit several days after he was due)

• Named my son Eitan Lev, after my uncle and Samuel’s great-grandfather

This coming year, I hope to:

• Commit to strengthening my body through intentional movement

• Rediscover my identity as a writer

• Go on adventures as a family of four

Wishing you all a gemar chatimah tovah!