Hi, my name is Baila Paluch, and I am the One-Handed Mom!
Immediately after the birth of my youngest child, I had an aneurism, leaving me with lingering right-side weakness (a euphemism for near uselessness).
As an Orthodox Jewish woman with ke”h a large family, many of the adaptations they taught in rehab didn’t apply to me. (Wear clothing a size or two larger than you need. Ha, which teenager is letting her mother get away with that?)
They don’t teach you how to organize a freezer full of 9×13 kugels, single-handed. They don’t think about hanging skirts or putting on a Shabbos robe. Dressing a toddler. Putting a sheitel on a shaitel head. All the trappings of frum living.
That’s why I decided to start this blog. It’s a blog for moms who are too busy with life to wait for assistance for anything they can possibly do themselves. It’s a place for YOU to share YOUR tips, too. I, for one, am always on the lookout for new hacks, so please, no idea is too silly.
About that freezer?
- Use loaf pans instead of 9x13s whenever feasible.
- Wrap absolutely everything in good-quality ziplock bags before freezing, to help them slide out with more ease from underneath the deli roll and the apple crumble.
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