So I got my own personal stylist via Stitch Fix and it’s made shopping for clothes SO EASY! I think you’ll love it, too.
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Enjoy!
Vancouver is a beautiful city located near the coast on the southwest corner of Canada. The weather, temperature, and picturesque scenery is very similar to Seattle. Because of its variety of scenery, many television shows are filmed in the town.
Located just 142 miles, or a little under 3 hours drive, north of Seattle. Many local Seattle Jews like to make the trip to Vancouver occasionally mainly for the kosher meat restaurants.
We made a trip back in May 2015, while my husband was about to start a new job and our daughter was just a little over 3 months old. It was so nice to get away from home for a while and to see a new city.
This list is a compilation of toddler travel tips that were suggested to us by friends as well things that we picked up along the way. Though this list could be utilized for any sort of travel, we found this to be a great companion for our trip to Israel with our daughter who was almost 2 years old. I should note that most of the stuff we brought with us was bought from Goodwill or the Dollar Store, that way if it got lost we weren’t out a lot of money.
Recently our washer and dryer both broke down at the same time. So while my husband was at the store buying the new washer and dryer, he found out that the dishwasher I’ve been talking about for a long time was on sale. Turns out that the store also offered 12 months no interest payment plans and the total monthly price is the amount I’ve been saving monthly to buy this dishwasher anyway. So we bought it. And it was totally worth it.
Recently we’ve been reading Mooncake. It’s actually a book that my mom gave me from when I was a child. So I thought it would be fun to make moon sand for my daughter.
1. To find a place to stay in Israel for a month, we used Airbnb and we checked in with a friend of ours who knows Israel well to make sure that it was in a safe location. The apartment that we found is in Rehavia, which is a very nice and very safe neighborhood, within walking distance to pretty much everything in Jerusalem. According to the host’s profile, he offers 6 holiday apartments in the same building in Rehavia. And he also lives in the same building, which was very helpful for someone like me, who managed to lock ourselves out of the apartment a few times.
Here is the link for the apartment we stayed in, if you’ve not used Airbnb before, click here first to get a $40USD discount:
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Back in 2016 we decided we had to make a trip to Israel. Bonus reason was that at the time we only had one child and she was under 2 (her plane ride was free!). So as soon as we received our tax return, we bought our plane tickets for December so we could experience Chanukah in Israel. We decided to stay for a month because we didn’t know when we’d be back again and we really wanted to live like locals.
The term “out-of-town”, in Judaism, is often used to refer to anyone who lives outside of the Tri-State area, or even just the greater New York area.
My husband initially suggested the name for this blog and I really liked the sound of it. To me, it means more than simply just living outside of New York. I am proud that I grew up in a very small town in Montana. “Out-of-town” living was literally where we lived, 8 miles outside of a small town of about 2700 people.
Now, years later, living in a city and being a part of a smaller Jewish community, I can see that I will always be an out-of-town girl. One who enjoys the occasional challenge of working a little harder with limited resources. And it is a great feeling to know what it means to be an integral member of a community. Sometimes in a large community it is just too easy to blend in.
Living in an “out-of-town” smaller Jewish community has its pros and cons. It is easy to know most of the wonderful people in our community, and overall everyone is pretty laid back and welcoming. There is a connection amongst each other that cannot be broken. You don’t have to “dress to impress”. For the most part, you just have to be yourself. Most smaller communities also have better housing prices and job opportunities. While we live in Seattle, where tech jobs are pretty abundant, but housing prices and the cost of living in our neighborhood are pretty high. With all the positives of living out of town, on the other hand, sadly we don’t have a lot of kosher restaurant options.
Another aspect of this blog is to include tips and info on traveling. Getting out-of-town and exploring. And all our journeys along the way. Honestly, this blog is something I want to do for fun in my spare time. Blog posts may happen a lot or a little depending on life and of course, my motivation.
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