I am going to make this a fast one because I have no patience tonight.

Kids had their chugim today.  I was running all over the place dropping them off and picking them up.  Poor Keren was in and out of the car so many times today she didn’t know what was going on.

Today I stopped off at the makolet to pick a few things up to tide us over until I have time to do a real shop tomorrow when my grandmother comes to watch the kids.  I decided to buy some apples and pears and make baby food for Keren.  All the food here has a ton of sugar in it, so I’m told, and it seems the best thing to do is make it.   I asked my friend in ulpan what to do and she said to just bake the fruit for a while in the oven and then mash it up.  So I did!  I made her apple sauce and pear sauce and I put them into ice cube trays and froze them and now when i want to feed her I just pop one out and add some hot water and we are good to go!  Next I am going to try to make some squash and carrots too.  This might just become a hobby.  Maybe I should bottle it and sell it.  Could be like that movie with Diane Keaton…

Anyway, also on the kitchen front, forgot to mention that the challot that I made last week with the kids came out AMAZING!!  It looks good and it tastes good and it makes so many challot that I don’t have to make the every week. 

This evening friends from camp came over for dinner, as they sometimes do on Tuesday nights because her daughter takes swim here on Tuesday nights. So I made macaroni and cheese and tuna croquettes for dinner.  It was noisy but nice.  I try to keep the evenings full since Eric isn’t here and it makes the time go by faster. 

When they left I had to do a ton of cleaning or straightening up since the cleaning man is coming tomorrow and I won’t have much time to clean in the morning.

Funny Ben story:  I was feeding Ben his macaroni and he said it needed more taste.  He then asked me for some parmesan cheese!  What 4 year old does that?  It was cute.  So I grated some fresh parm. cheese onto his pasta for him.  My friend was cracking up.

Tonight as I was combing Talia’s hair out I saw a huge bug.  I am praying that it wasn’t lice!  I don’t think they come that big.  I am going to go buy some conditioner tomorrow since we used it all up and comb her hair out and pray.  She asked me what happens when you have lice and I told her nothing, that you get bugs in your hair and she said, “Okay, that’s not so bad!”  True Israeli already!  I am not so calm about it like she is.  Maybe I should be.

Eric said he spoke to Bezeq today and they said any day now.  I checked today and still nothing but I will check tomorrow again and I won’t be surprised if we have our line. 

Keren just woke up from her nap in her swing and I have to feed her and put her to sleep.  Off to do that now.

A typical morning in the Mandel house.  Got the kids off to school (on time today) and got myself to ulpan.  Keren could have been easier during ulpan but I can’t complain since she’s usually very good.  It’s been easier this last week because Eric has been able to take her off my hands for a little while but this week he’s not here and I am going to have to take care of her the whole time.  As she gets older it’s becoming harder and harder.

While I was in ulpan a friend passed by my house to run to the makolet and get something to eat and she said on her way back to ulpan she spotted bezeq at my house!  Sure enough, when I came home there was a message on my machine from my neighbor telling me to call bezeq and let them know we need a phone number b/c we are all hooked up and ready to go!  So I called Eric and he said he would call them and he did and now we are just waiting one final (i hope) time for them to come and for them to hook us up!  But the line has been run and we are really almost there!!

Next thing was the electrician showed up today after weeks of waiting for him to take care of some things!  Now we just need the plumber!  Things are slowly starting to move around here.

Picked Ben up from school and brought him home along with Eitan. Talia came home an hour later and they all played pretty nicely.  Robin didn’t come to pick Eitan up until almost 6!  By that time I had fed both the boys.  It’s good he’s such an easygoing kid. At one point Ben had had enough and I decided it would be a good time to put a video on for them.  Meanwhile, Rinat came to help Talia with her homework and they wound up playing a very nice game that my aunt bought for Ben for his birthday after homework time was over.  Then round 2 and 3 of dinner was served and I finally got the kids to bed a little after 7. 

I really was trying to get everyone to sleep early tonight b/c they were so tired when they woke up this morning but that didn’t happen.  There’s always tomorrow.  Keren was up twice last night so I am zonked and would really like to be in bed early.

So Shabbat at our house was VERY quiet!  We didn’t have Talia and Ben b/c they went to my grandparents.  Let’s just say we did A LOT of sleeping!  Not only did I go to sleep early, but I also took 2 naps, not an easy thing to do when Shabbat ends around 5:20!

Saturday night we went to pick the kids up.  We hung out a little bit there and then brought them home.  They had a nice time, although I asked Talia if she would rather be home or there and she said at home b/c she has her friends here.  I think they were a little bored there.  My grandmother took them to a very nice playground in the afternoon and also to the old age home around the corner where there is a VERY nice and VERY large aquarium for them to look at.  Nevertheless, I think for Talia, at least, it is more fun to be here.  The other thing was they were supposed to get together with my cousin and her daughter who they adore and at the last minute my cousin went to her parents’ house for Shabbat b/c she wasn’t feeling well.  I am sure if they had had Shelly to play with, the day would have been nicer.  But they did have a very nice time.  Ben had a case of a bad stomach towards the middle of the day and my grandmother had to deal with him running to the bathroom constantly but she said it wasn’t so bad, she just felt bad for him.  By the time we picked him up he was all better.

We borrowed a movie from a friend and watched a movie last night.  We were supposed to originally go out for our anniversary but we got home and I was too tired (probably from all that sleep) and we just decided to be lazy and stay home.  We’ll go out another time.  Eric came home with flowers for me when he went to get the video.  That was all I needed.  Let’s not forget that he bought be a beautiful necklace a couple of weeks ago in anticipation of our anniversary.  I remember how when we first got married I told him that for our 10 year anniversary I wanted us to go to Hawaii.  Yeah, so NOT HAPPENING!

Anyway, today we all overslept a little bit.  They were exhausted from their Shabbat and when the alarm clock went off and I realized that noone was up yet I just rolled over and went back to sleep.  When it went off again and Eric looked and saw it was way after 7, I told him to go back to sleep and we would just take the kids to school later.   In the end they wound up waking up shortly thereafter and Eric took them to school and let me sleep late.

We went shopping in the morning for a dining room table.  It’s been 10 years and we really need one.  We went to few stores to get an idea of what we like and then we went to  a place where they custom make them for you that was recommended to us by a friend. The guy there was great and we spent close to 2 hours there. Before we place the order I just have 2 more places that I want to check out now that we have it all drawn out just to price it out and make sure we are getting a good deal.  I am so excited to finally get a dining room table!

After we came home I got Ben from school and Talia came home shortly after.  We gave them lunch and then headed to Yerushalayim.  It was a little ridiculous that we’ve been here now for almost exactly 3 months (it seems longer) and we hadn’t been to the Kotel!  So we finally finally went.  We had a really nice time.  After we went to the Kotel we walked around the Old City a little and window shopped.  We stopped so I could feed Keren and relaxed a little.  It was getting late and we didn’t want the kids to fall asleep in the car without having had dinner.  So we stopped at Burgers Bar and had a really delicious dinner.  Then we went back to the Kotel so I could get the kids their red bracelets, got one for Keren too!

We hit traffic on the way home in Yerushalayim since it was rush hour by the time we decided to head back.  We got home around 6:30 and the kids were zonked.  I did some homework with Talia while Eric got Ben ready for bed.  I didn’t understand some of what she was supposed to do and she was getting more and more tired so I figured we would just leave it for tomorrow night when Rinat comes to help her with her Hebrew.  It is sad that I can’t figure out first grade homework.  Oh well.

After I got the big kids in I gave Keren her dinner.  I’ve been giving her mashed up bananas with some baby cereal.  The first time she ate it she discovered the spitting technique and it was VERY messy.  There was very little that actually got eaten that day.  I discovered that I can hold the spoon in her mouth and she likes to slurp it off and then she doesn’t spit it out at me.  So that’s what we did yesterday.  Tonight she was so hungry that I couldn’t get it in her mouth fast enough.  She would cry between spoons.  So she finished all of it tonight.  She still hasn’t mastered swallowing but we are getting there.

So Eric is on his way now to the airport again.  He’s going from tonight until Friday so it’s not such a bad trip this time. 

We took some nice pictures today in Yerushalayim.  Click on the link below to see them:

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Well, only 10 minutes until Shabbat and the kids, well, 2 out of 3,  are off at my grandparents’ apartment in Petach Tikvah!  We dropped them off there and then took my grandfather’s car back with us and returned the rental.  So now we have a car that isn’t costing us $1,000 a month and isn’t bright red and tiny.  We have a huge corolla.  Yes, I think the Toyota Corolla is huge.  Just goes to show you how small our little red Chevy was!  The only drawback is that it STINKS OF SMOKE!  My grandfather liked to sit in his car and smoke while listening to the radio.  So I was nauseous coming home but I hope that the Febreeze that I just sprayed in it will help and when we get into the car after Shabbat, maybe it worked a miracle and the car won’t give me a headache.   I am going to Google it and see if there are any suggestions about how to get the smell of smoke out of a car.

I have to run and finish getting ready for our relaxing Shabbat so I will end this here.

Oh, just quickly, Ben had a very nice time in school today during his birthday celebration.  I didn’t get many details but he came home with a present and with a crown.  What could be better than that?

Today Keren ate for the first time.  I fed her some applesauce with carrots mixed in and some baby cereal.  She was very funny.  She did really well.  With the other kids, more would come out than went in and I was stuck with more food in the end.  She was great. She knew to swallow the food somehow.  The only problem is that she didn’t like it and she kept making the funniest faces and cringing.  I think tomorrow I’ll try some banana.

Tomorrow Ben has his party in school along with another little girl who turned 4.  I am in charge of the balloons, the cake and the party favors.  I made another cake for him today and bought the party favors.  Unfortunately, I forgot the balloons.  I put in a call to a friend and I hope she has some.  If not, they’ll just have to do without.  Eric took the cake out and said he wasn’t sure if it was done.  I told him that it’s probably fine and then later when I checked it I saw that the middle had sunk in.  After checking it I saw that it was raw in the middle.  So I stuck it back in and now it’s both dry and undercooked.  So I plopped on a ton of icing and some m&ms and some sprinkles and I am sure the 3 and 4 year old kids in his gan won’t mind.

Thursdays are our crazy days here.  Talia has both swim and english chugim.  Ben went to Eitan’s house and played there while I cooked a little for Shabbat.  Then I took Talia and her friends to and from swim.  Later I took her to english and picked Ben up from Eitan’s house.  I gave Ben dinner and then went back out again to pick Talia up. It’s good when Eric is around because he can stay home with Keren while I am running all over the place.  Tonight she was asleep and I didn’t have to wake her. When he’s not here it’s much more difficult on Thursdays.

I’ve been pretty lazy tonight and didn’t get much done.  I’ve been watching tv from America on slingbox and I dind’t realize how much I missed live tv!!  I am even enjoying the commercials!  I know, it won’t last long.

Today Eric had a fight with the Bezeq guys.  They are so backwards.  We were put on another list now.  We think we might get a phone line as early as next week but we’re not holding our breath.

Talia and Ben are going to my grandparents for Shabbat.  I am looking forward to a very relaxing Shabbat with Eric and Keren!

Another routine day today.

I had a good day at ulpan.  My teacher was impressed that my conjugating skills are finally improving.  As usual, she had a look of complete shock on her face when I answered her questions correctly.  My cleaning man, Foster, came today and did a great job as usual.  Eric ran errands in the morning and had to go back to the Misrad Hapnim for the second time this week.

In the afternoon Ben and I hung out until Talia came home.  Eric did a couple small things around the house.  He set up the computer for the kids in the playroom/guest room/mammad.  Later on we decided to bake some challah.  This was my first time baking challah without a bread machine.  I used my KitchenAid mixer with the dough hook that Eric just brought me from America and I found a recipe in one of my cook books.  The only problem that I had was that it made a lot of dough and my mixer couldn’t handle all that dough.  It started to come out of the bowl and the mixer got very hot and started to over heat.  In the end, it seemed to come out good, although we haven’t tasted it yet.  I wanted to make it early so that if it didn’t come out well I would have time to buy challah. 

Got the kids into bed and now I am relaxing and watching some downloaded TV…

Nothing unusual to report. 

First of all, here are the pictures of Ben’s party last night as well as some other cute ones I took of the kids:

Had a normal day.  Got the kids to school and went to ulpan.  My teacher wasn’t happy that we didn’t do our homework!  I made sure to do it today when I got home.

Anyway, Talia and Ben had their chugim today and so it was a pretty calm day.  Ben came home with palmella from his teacher’s palmella tree.  I am definitely going to try to grow a palmella tree when we buy a house here.  I just peeled the most incredible palmella that Eric bought yesterday.

News on the Keren front:  Keren is up on all fours and is rocking and trying to crawl!  She manages to get around a bit on the rug between the rocking and the rolling.  She’s really almost there.  She will be 6 months old on the 13th and I am going to start her on solids.  She actually slept through the night last night.  I couldn’t believe it when I opened my eyes and it was just after 6!!  There is a slight possibility that she did get up and I just don’t remember but I am pretty sure that she made it all the way through.  I am hoping that it’s the beginning of a new sleeping pattern but I am not getting my hopes up.   Anyway, she’s swinging away in her swing now and I am going  to take the opportunity to fold some laundry now.

I am so tired!!!!!

Today I took the kids to school and then went to school myself. 

After school I came straight home and that’s when the cooking frenzy began.  I made a TON of food for ben’s party tonight.  I made all of his favorite foods and then some other food that I just thought would be nice to have.  The menu included:  Onion soup (new recipe that came out great from a new cookbook that my mom just sent me), ceasar salad pizza bubble ring, broccoli twist, salmon (eric made it), sushi (eric made it), and home made birthday cake!!  Ben wanted to help me make the cake and the pizza bubble ring and boy did he help.  It looked like something exploded in my kitchen by the time we were finished and Eric was finished with the sushi.  Ben spilled the rice that Eric was drying and there was rice all over my kitchen among flour and other things used to make the cake. 

At 5:30 I finally finished and my grandparents arrived with my great aunt.  The kids were starving but I was still waiting for my cousin Avivit to come with my aunt.  They got here around 6-ish and Ben opened his presents and we ate!  The food came out great and everyone enjoyed. 

The kids played with Shelly and they watched some of the new videos that Ben got from us and from Avivit for his birthday.  It was really very nice.  I took a few pictures but I still have some cleaning up to do and I can’t sit here and upload pictures for an hour so I will do it tomorrow and include it in tomorrow’s blog.

Luckily, Savta was here and she helped me with most of the clean up but there is still a bit to do.  I also have to pack the kids’ lunches and I am zonked and my feet are throbbing but it was worth it

Okay.  I have a TON to catch up on!  I’ll go day by day:

Thursday:  Ben woke up and was upstairs with me and I heard Talia in the bathroom a number of times before she came up.  knew right away there was going to be trouble.  So she came upstairs and said that she was really sick and couldn’t go to school.  She said she was in the bathroom all morning with an upset stomach.  So I got Ben to school and I left Talia at home and then I came back.  I figured that since she was going to be home, I might as well get some cooking for Shabbat done.  So I missed my big test in ulpan!  Talia spent the morning running back and forth from the bathroom to the couch and I did a ton of cooking.

I don’t remember much but Ben came home and the two of us did some more cooking.  I saved the things that he likes to do for him since he likes to cook/bake with me. 

Eventually Talia stopped running to the bathroom and I took her to her English chug and then took Ben and Keren to the airport to pick up Eric!  As usual, the ELAL site was wrong and it said he was landing at 5:20 but he didn’t land until 5:50.  So we waited in the airport for a while.  It wasn’t bad, though.  Ben and I both got some ice cream and we people watched.  He got tired after a while.  It was 7 or so by the time Eric came out.  By 7 Ben is usually more than ready to get into bed.  On the way home I took a wrong turn because I wasn’t concentrating and we wound up going WAY out of our way.  So we didn’t get back to the house until 8.  I was worried because Talia was at a friend’s house since she didn’t want to come to the airport and there wasn’t enough room in the car for all of us and for Eric’s suitcases.  I thought the parents were going to be really mad at me for coming so late but when we went to get her Eric said the house was rocking and even her little sister was awake and in clothes.  So it was all good.  Ben fell asleep in the car and I threw him straight into bed and then Eric, Talia and I went through the things that he brought us home from America before Talia went to sleep.

Friday:  Got the kids off to school and I did a little more cooking while Eric hung out and picked up a few things for me.  Kids came home from school and I don’t know what we did the rest of the day but before I knew it the 3 girls we were having for Shabbat were here.  We had my friend Stephanie Minkove’s sister and her two friends who are learning here this year.  They came and they brought great gifts for the kids and we hung out and they played with the kids for a while.  The girls totally won me over because when I asked them if they played Bananagrams, they said they did and that they brought the game with them!!!!  So we played Friday night after the kids went to sleep.

I can’t remember when it started but we now have an ant problem in the house.  I think it was one day last week that I came home to a bunch of them crowded around a piece of something on the floor.  Now they don’t want to leave!  It must be ant season.  I keep washing the floor and making sure that everything is swept up but it is hard to keep the floor spic and span with little kids and it seems that it is a losing battle.  So for now we are living with it and I think Eric is going to buy some ant traps when he gets a chance. 

Shabbat:  Shabbat we went to shul while the girls slept in.  Came home and had lunch and then the kids took two of them for a tour of the yishuv.  So cute.  They wound up bumbing in to Robin Zemel, who knew my friend’s sister from Regesh of some camp that they worked in together a couple of years ago and they wound up talking there for a while and then Robin came back to our house with Eitan and we all hung out here until Shabbat was over.  I got a couple more rounds of Bananagrams in before Shabbat was over.

Sat. night:  Talia knows that she has to be home by the time the street lights come on on Shabbat afternoon but she didn’t come home from the playground until about 5 minutes after Shabbat was over!!  She wound up meeting the neighbors in the park and she walked home with them but we were really upset and worried about her.  So we told her that if it happens again she won’t be allowed to go to the park by herself on Shabbat. 

We had a seudah hoda’ah to go to for my cousin and her husband who were in a bad fire last year and nearly died.  The seudah was in yerushalayim so it worked out well because we were able to drive the girls back to their school.  Before we left, Eric said that he remembered that when he was in Yeshiva and went to people for Shabbat they would give him food to take back for the week.  So we asked the girls if they wanted to take back some food and they said yes!  When I was upstairs getting ready to leave, Eric told them to go into the fridge and take what they wanted.  When I came down the three of them were in the fridge cleaning us out!  It was such a funny sight!  I wanted to take a picture of it but I didn’t want to make them feel bad.  All I know is there was food being scraped off of platters and bagged into Ziplocks.  They were so happy.  I was really happy that they were taking it because we had a lot left over and I know that they will enjoy the food this week.

So after the bagging frenzy we squeezed into the car and dropped them off in Yerushalayim and went to the seudah hoda’ah.  There were a ton of people there and many speeches, all of which were in Hebrew, and we basically waited outside in the hallway until after it was all over.  Then we all ate and talked.  It was nice because Eric got to meet a lot of my family here that he hasn’t met yet.  I saw my cousin who was in the fire.  i thought she looked terrible and I was really depressed but everyone else said that I should have seen her before and that she looks great.  So that was kind of sad. 

We got home and into bed around 1!!  Poor Keren was exhausted!  She slept on and off while we were there (Savta got her to sleep) but she kept waking up every now and again.  She went to sleep around 12:45 and although she woke up again, I ignored her because I just couldn’t get out of bed and she stopped kvetching and I got 6 straight hours of sleep.

Today (Sunday):  Today we got the kids off to school and then we went to Yerushalayim to the Misrad Ha Rishui  (licensing office) to get our green forms stamped so that we can take our driving lessons and tests.  I thought it was going to take forever but it went really fast.  We took a number and waited for probably around half an hour and got our forms stamped and we are on to the next step in the long process.  The woman there was so happy that we brought photocopies of our licenses and she didn’t have to do it for us! 

We decided on the way home that it would be nice to make a birthday party for Ben tomorrow night with the family.  So I called the family and invited everyone to come for his birthday tomorrow.  Then we stopped off at the mall in Modiin for some breakfast.  I fed Keren and Eric and I shared  a yummy chalumi cheese panini and an iced coffee.  Yummy!  Next it was off to the toy store to buy gifts for Ben.  I had to buy him a present from us and one from my grandparents and one from my great aunt.  We still have to buy a present for him from my parents but I think Eric is supposed to do that tomorrow morning when I am in ulpan.  They are getting him a new scooter. 

After the toy store we came home and I picked Ben up from school and Talia came home.  I fed Keren and Eric took teh kids out to pick up all the stuff we need for his party tomorrow and Keren and I took a nap.  i was so tired all day from the late night that we had and I needed to go to sleep!

I woke up around 5 and Ben and I made some dough for one of the things I am going to make tomorrow night.  In America I would have been able to just buy the dough pre-made.  Oh well.  This was more fun for Ben.  Then I wanted to get Talia and do her homework with her and she was nowhere to be found!!  Ben said she went to the park right outside our front door but when I looked there she wasn’t there and it was dark outside!  I went next door and she wasn’t there.  That’s when I started to panic a little.  I told Eric and he came out to help me look for her.  I went across the street to another friend and sure enough she was there!  She claims that she told Eric where she was going, he says she did no such thing.  So that was a fun little scare!  Oh, the best part is that she wasn’t wearing any shoes!!

So Talia came home and they ate their dinner and did her homework and got them into bed.  Ben was exhausted as usual and collapsed before Talia even went into her shower.  We’ve been giving the kids showers lately b/c of the water situation here.  I guess we could have moved into that house that had no bathtub after all!  Ha Ha.

I am sure there is a ton I am forgetting but I am looking at the word count on this thing and I think this is my longest blog yet.  I’m going to have to end it here.  Tomorrow is Ben’s birthday and I have a ton of cooking to do for his party after I come home from ulpan.  I hope I get it all done!!

Let me start my blog by explaining why I didn’t blog last night.  I had no internet!!  Our internet is dependant on the internet of our neighbor and they had to restart their router and my neighbor wasn’t there to do it.  His daughter was under the mistaken impression that the internet was working and so I thought there was just something wrong with my mine but, indeed, theirs was not working.  So after a very frustrating evening, I have up on having internet and went to sleep.

The good news is that this morning when I went outside I saw a truck and an excavator (a mini one) and they were there to dig up the sidewalk and lay the conduit for our phone lines!!  They finished and now it’s a matter of getting bezeq to come and give us a line and we’ll have phone and internet!!  I am not getting my hopes up too high that it’s going to happen next week but I AM hoping that within the month we’ll have everything up and running.  I hope that’s not too optimistic!

Click on the link below to see pictures of them digging up the sidewalk to lay the pipes:

Anyway, getting back to yesterday.  The morning was a typical morning.  I hadn’t slept well the night before and Keren woke up at 5:30 and wouldn’t go back to sleep.  So I was basically up since then.

Ben went to his cooking class after school and Talia and I had a half hour to do her homework after her school was over in peace and quiet.  Then she went off to her English chug and my grandparents came over.  They watched Keren while I went to the bank b/c I had run out of money to pay the cleaning man and to pay for her chugim.

I came home and picked Ben up and we spent some time with my savta while my saba spent time sleeping on the couch.  I was just glad he came at all!

Talia surfaced somewhere around 5:30 after going straight to her other chug and then my grandparents left after saying a quick hi to her. 

Today the cleaning man came.  Yay.  I had to leave ulpan a half hour early to let him out and lock up after him.  I tried to put Keren in for a nap as long as I had the time but she woke up right away and cried for a while before I gave up and took her out.  So I wound up going to get Ben from school and dropping him off at a friend’s house and then I went to the toy store to pick up a gift for Talia’s friend who had a party tonight and to the supermarket and the makolet.  While I was at the supermarket I looked into one of the rooms off the main floor and there was a minyan of people davening there!!  I thought that was so cool.  I think about shopping in America now and how that would never happen and I am so happy to be here…

It took me a really long time and I didn’t get back until close to 4 o’clock, at which time I fed Keren and then made dinner.  I went to get Ben and I wound up staying and talking for a while.  I was supposed to drop my cleaning man off at the bus stop but the woman who he was cleaning by called me and she didn’t get me since I have almost no cell phone service at my house and she took him instead.  I felt horrible but she said she knows what it’s like to have little kids in the house (she no longer does) and she was happy to do it.  So that was great.  I brought Ben home as well as Eitan’s older sister Zahava and she helped me with Keren while I fed Ben and bathed him and then she watched the two of them while I went to pick Talia up from her birthday party.  She went straight from school to a friend’s house and then to a party!  Busy girl.

So by the time Talia came home, it was 6:40 and she still had to eat a little more for dinner and do a ton of homework.  We said goodbye and a huge thank you to Zahavah and then I put Ben to sleep and came down and did 40 minutes worth of homework for Talia (the most she’s had so far!!) and then I skipped her bath and got her right into Bed!  Then I fed Keren and put her straight in because she didn’t nap at all today, just a little snooze in the car and she was exhausted.

So I haven’t gotten anything done.  I wanted to clean my chickens tonight and I will have to do that now.  I didn’t get through with Talia until close to 8 and now it’s close to 8:30 now that I have gotten Keren to sleep.  She was really difficult tonight b/c she was so tired and I had to hold her the entire time I was doing homework with Talia and I couldn’t multi task.

The nice thing is that tonight I made macaroni and cheese casserole for the kids for dinner and it came out delicious, same as America!  Yay!

I am sure there is more to tell but when writing two days worth of material I tend to leave things out and not write as much detail.  I have a test in ulpan tomorrow!  I have to conjugate words and I am in so much trouble.  I can’t do it!!  My teacher keeps telling me I can and I keep telling her I can’t.  It is going to be so embarrassing when I hand in a sheet of paper and it’s all wrong!  I hope she doesn’t make me take it home and get it signed by my husband