Another burst hose

Eric is home now, and not a day too soon b/c on Monday evening the kids and I were home and heard water running and ran into the kitchen and, sure enough, another hose under the sink burst and there was hot water pouring out!  Because we are so experianced with this, I knew where the main water shut off valve was and I ran and turned it off before too much damage was done.  It was a pain to clean up but at least we were awake this time and didn’t have 2 inches of water in the house!!  Because Eric was coming home the next morning I just left the hot water off downstairs and took the kids out to dinner.   I figured he would fix it when he came home and he did!

Today in the morning I had a doctor’s appointment in Yerushalayim.  All is well, thank G-d.  Then we went to finish paying for the land in Even Shmuel.  That is finally finished.  Yay.

When we came home I was zonked and I decided to take a nap with Keren in my bed.  Eric went out to return a hose he bought for the sink and to pay them for the hose he bought yesterday (they gave it to him and told him to just pay the next day when his card didn’t work!).  Unfortunately, Keren didn’t nap but I did!  When I woke up Eric told me that she broke the keys off his laptop which was on his night table next to the bed.  She permanently broke his period key and now he has to buy another laptop keyboard!!!  She is such a devil.  The day before when she napped in my bed, before she came down after she woke up I heard a lot of noise, a lot of banging. I thought it was the neighbors, who were putting something up outside.  After she came down I went up to turn off the air conditioning and I saw that a bunch of shoes of mine were out.  She opened my closet and took out my shoes and was clopping around in them upstairs before she decided to come down.  Funny kid!

Anyway, in the afternoon my grandmother came over and we all went to the beach together.  It was a lot of fun.  The weather was perfect for the beach (hot!) and the kids had a blast.  My grandmother was, of course, able to get Keren into the water, something that Eric and I have been unsuccessful doing.  In about 3 minutes she had her in the water and LOVING IT!!  She did the same thing with Ben when he was 2 and we came to Israel for the summer.  She got him right in the water when he was afraid.

We came home and the kids had a ton of sand in their hair after dumping water from the beach on their heads.  Keren was especially bad after Talia dumped water and sand on her head for some reason.  It took me a long time to clean her head out in the bath and I’m still not sure it’s all out.  At least she has thin hair and it will all fall out itself while she sleeps, probably.

Oh, the best news is that Eric brought home my Mother’s Day present when he came back this time and it is a Sony Reader!!  It’s like the Kindle but you can take books out from the library on it!!  I started reading a book on it last night and it was great. I love it!!

That’s the news from here.  The countdown to America has officially begun.  We are leaving in 12 days!!!