A busy Thursday

I am zonked and so I think I am going to keep this short (sorry Bubby, I know you like my long posts)

Busy day today between the kids and the cooking for Shabbat. 

Ben came home straight from school and we did some baking together for a while until he got bored and turned to Eric to play with him.

Talia had swim today and came home at 4, at which time Rinat came to play with her and speak some Hebrew to her.   Unfortunately, Talia wasn’t so cooperative and didn’t want to speak Hebrew at all.  So we all spoke Hebrew and Talia spoke in English.  I think she’s embarrassed to speak in front of us. I don’t know why.

As Talia was on her way in, Ben’s friend Chen popped over to say hi since Ben and I stopped by her house on our way home from school.  They picked Ben up and he went to her house to play for a while.

As all this was going on I was cooking in my teeny weeny oven, one thing at a time, of course. 

Just got an e-mail from my friend that her daughter’s boyfriend got out of Gaza today and will be home for Shabbat.  That’ s good news.  The bad news is that he was right outside the building that was destroyed by friendly fire a couple of days ago and about to go in.  He heard someone inside yelling “where is my hand?”  Things here aren’t so great.  The mood on the Yisuv and in Israel is pretty somber.  So many of the boys here are in the army and their families are so worried about them.  We were supposed to eat out at  a friend’s house but they cancelled because they just weren’t in the mood.

Anyway, to end on a light note, we are looking forward to Talia’s camatz patach party tomorrow morning in her School.  She sang one of the songs for me and it seems like it’s going to be very cute.  I will try to post pics Sat. night after Shabbat.