A busy Shabbat

Last night we went out for dinner and as we were walking there we agreed that it would be the last Friday night that we would eat out, at least until we change the clocks.  It is way too late for the kids, especially Ben.  By the time we got there last night I had already given Ben a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and pasta!  The house we went to was really beautiful in a not too over the top way.  They had another family there who also made aliyah about a month ago.  They didn’t bring a lift or declare aliyah, though.  It was nice trading stories.  Because of Lehman Brothers going bankrupt the husband of our host wasn’t there.  He works for a hedge fund and they called him and told him he had to go to America and that day he had booked a ticket and left and they aren’t sure when he’s coming home!  Crazy story.  So dinner was nice.  Ben fell asleep on the couch (again!) but woke up when it was time to walk home and didn’t complain.  Talia met a nice girl who’s 7 and in Kitah Bet but goes to the school in Modiin.  I was happy for her to meet another girl around her age who just moved here.  Maybe they can comiserate together. 

This morning the kids woke up around 7:30ish.  Eric fed them and then went to shul and I got them dressed and out the door around 9ish.  They came back again today b/c they said shul was boring!!  I told them they can’t keep coming back from shul and they have to stay there after they go.  They basically go for the candy and then come back.  I quickly made an avocado tomato salad and then went to shul and got there pretty much at the end. 

The people we went to today were very nice.  They had her parents for Shabbat too and they were very interesting!  Her father was a physicist.  At one point he worked for NASA.  He was also a soldier during WWII.  Just interesting all around.  The kids also played well with their daughter.  Their daughter is around 14 or 15 and she’s going to come this week and play with Talia and teach her some Hebrew at the same time.  The school suggested that we do this since they cut the ulpan budget by a lot this year, unfortnately for us.

We came home and I got to take a nice, long nap.  Eric played with Ben and then he took a nap too while the kids played together nicely for some time.  Keren also slept.

We went to Channah’s for seudat shlishit and it was very nice.  The kids had a great time.

Came home pretty late and the kids were falling apart.  We got them to sleep pretty quickly and I threw in some laundry and did my homework for ulpan tomorrow.  It was hard to write a conversation between a clerk and a customer and try to be funny when my Hebrew is so limited.  Oh well.

We might be going to Ikea tomorrow after the kids come home from school.  Tomorrow night Eric goes back to America again!!