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An anxious mom fluttering her way through motherhood Writing about going through this crazy world as a mother with mental health

09/06/2025

Give me a book I can relate to....

DONE!

has been a favourite of mine since I began my writing/meme journey back in 2016.
"I want to be cool like her!"
Coincidence has it that we have the same name too, so even better.

Karen is a hilarious straight to the point, amazing writer and memer.
She wrote a book and I loved every minute of it!

Head over to Amazon (link in my stories or on page) for your copy! You won't be disappointed 🧡🧡

Thank you Karen!!

27/01/2025

January 27 is the designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

It's been 80 years since the end of the N**i regime. We take this day to think about and remember the victims of the terrible atrocities inflicted by the n***s.

Today is the day I think about my family.
I think about what they went through.
I think about the countless stories my savta told me that brought me to tears.
She was the only one to ever speak to me about what she endured over a harrowing six months in Auschwitz.

I think about my saba and my great grandfather who were sent off to Russia.
I think about how I never met my great grandfather as he never came home.
I think about my saba's determination to stay alive and make it back home to his family.

I think about my zaidy who, I recently learned, had escaped death in a dark forest by running away with a few other kids.
Kids.
I think about my aunt being born in the ghetto.
I think about my great aunt dying of disease shortly after the birth of her daughter.

I think about another great aunt who lost her entire family to the gas chambers, save one sister.
I think about the experiments done on her that took away her ability to ever have children.
I think about the rapes and beatings she went through in order to protect her younger sister.

I think about how my family came together after the war.
I think about how my grandparents met, finding each other on their way to Israel and building a life together filled with love and happiness.

I think about where I come from.
I think about the conversations I have with my child about his family's past.

I learned at a very young age what it meant to be Jewish and I owe it to my family to continue to educate my child.
I learned at a very young age there was such a thing called the Holocaust.

Today is a day where I remember all those who suffered in the name of hate and genocide.
Today is a day where we say never again.

It's enough.
Never again.

*I post this yearly on this day. With antisemitism high on the rise, I want to remind people what happens when we fill our heart with hate.*

23/10/2024

My life right here. gives me oodles of laughs! Follow my friend Karen over at for all the relatable funnies!

18/10/2024

I'm going to need a new-age dictionary and thesaurus to get through these next few years. is the funniest! Swipe and follow and keep laughing!

15/10/2024

It absolutely amazes me! always makes me laugh! Swipe through then head over to for more laughs and truths!

10/10/2024

Getting close to that time where I feel my kid is going to need some hygiene chats! Follow and for tips and tricks, and oh yeah, the link for the box!

08/10/2024

Who would have thought it would be like this?? Are you, following the hysterical yet? Swipe through and head over to follow for more funnies!

01/10/2024

Nothing is an understatement. I love sharing the hilarity that is my good friend
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27/01/2024

Today is Holocaust Rembrance Day.
The day Aushwitz was liberated.
The day my grandmother remembers as being one of both relief and despair.
One of both watching people eat and drink themselves to death as they packed food and water into their emaciated bodies and one of which she would need to gather herself up and start walking toward freedom.
The day my great grandmother would be free to find her children again, which she did when she was able to travel over to Canada.
The day my great aunt and her sister would learn to live without the rest of their family, as they were murdered by the n***s.

I visited Aushwitz and experienced a pain that cannot be described in words. Years later, my parents would visit the camp and go through the same feelings I did, with my dad walking in the footsteps of his mother.
I cannot properly describe what it's like to try to process the barbaric reality I had to digest.
I cannot truly explain what it was like to look at the hair and luggage and shoes, trying desperately to somehow spot those belonging to my family.

A-9053.
My grandmother's number, branded like cattle and used instead of her name, Chana Johanna Heinrich. A beautiful Romania woman. A Jew. A warrior. The strongest woman I have ever know and had the privilege of being her granddaughter.

I usually share the same post on this day, however, this year is different. This year, I am faced with antisemitism all over the globe and wondering how "Never Again" became simply, "Again".

I've lost friends over this, both in real life and through the content creator world. I've been gaslighted, people telling me I don't understand what Zionism means. Telling me I don't understand what "from the river the the sea" means.

Is history actually repeating itself?
I'm baffled, but also, isn't that we do over and over?

Today I remember the 6million Jews murdered for simply being Jewish.
I remember all of those forced to wear inverted purple, pink, black, red, and green triangles as a classification system describing those who were seen as less-than.

In a world full of hatred, be the one who chooses love.
Am Yisrael Chai 💙🤍

22/11/2023

Dear Safta,

I miss you, and I need you.
I could really use your guidance right about now. I could use one of your most amazing hugs; the ones that envelope you and keep you safe.
But for the first time since you passed away in 2015, I'm relieved you're not here.

I'm relieved you can't see what is happening all around the world.
I'm relieved you don't have to go through the trauma of reliving the torture you endured during your time in Aushwitz.

All because you were Jewish.

I think about you every day.
I think about your experiences. How you were forced to stand still and naked for hours in the cold, being sure you don't shiver or make the slightest move out of fear of being shot.
How you were starving and stole a cucumber just to taste something other than the driness and dirt that was a staple in your mouth.
How your bunker was saved from the gas chamber because a sympathetic bus driver purposely pulled something from the engine and spared your lives.
How you spoke 5 languages at the time and was considered a "commodity", being able to translate between the SS Guards and the Jews brought in from all over Europe.

I think about how this would break your heart.

Your ability to survive the harshest of circumstances fascinates me to this day. I don't know if I could ever be as strong as you, but I'm trying.

Safta, people are chanting horrible things out there. We said "Never Again", but the world didn't mean it. And I'm happy you aren't here to witness it.

Despite how much I need you right now, I take comfort that you are not here to witness what is happening.
Despite how much I need you here, I take comfort that your strength will always be with me.

I love you.
Your ketzele,

Karen 💙🤍

31/10/2023

Halloween meme dump because I love Halloween

09/10/2023

With family and friends in Israel, I'm heartbroken. Devastated.
Be clear, this is about a terrorist group who hates Jews; who hates Israel.

You can disagree with the Israeli government and condemn such violence and hate towards the Jewish people.

I stand with Israel.
Am Yisrael Chai
💙🤍🇮🇱

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