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