Let me start with Shabbat since I haven’t written in a while.

Friday Talia was home again.  It was her last day at home.  She had a ton of catching up to do with schoolwork so she was pretty busy doing work until Ben came home from school.

Friday night we are quickly and went to sleep.  I slept about 14 hours!!  It was great.

Shabbat morning the kids went to shul (Talia was feeling a lot better) and I stayed home with Keren.  We made the salads together and got the place ready for company.  Robin and her family came over (sans Freddy) for lunch.  The kids all had a great time playing together and the boys wound up staying until 5.  Eric and I had a nice relaxing hour from 4-5 where the kids were all playing outside together, including Keren, and we were inside reading.

Sat. night I went out with some friends.  It was my friend’s birthday and we had a girls night out.  It was fun but I didn’t get back until 12 and I’ve been zonked ever since!!!

Yesterday, Sunday, we decided we were going to make Ben his party.  I just wanted to get it over with and he kept asking about it.  He invited 4 friends over (only 3 came) and we watched the movie Up and decorated cupcakes, had pizza and they left.  It was great.  They really had a nice time together.  It was a 2-hour party but it really flew by.  Here are the pictures:

After I picked Ben up from school yesterday I realized that they were celebrating the birthdays of the kids who had birthdays this past month and Ben wasn’t going to be one of them.  I straightened it out with the teacher and she gave me the number of one of the parents to call to find out what I had to bring.  Each parent is usually in charge of bringing something.  I was so nervous to call b/c I thought she was going to be pissed off that I hadn’t chipped in before then and I figured she had divvied it all out.  Fortunately, when I called she was relieved b/c she said she forgot about the eggs and the carrots.  I took my assignment and sent Ben in to school today with the stuff that he needed to bring in.  Phew!!

Last night we went out for our anniversary.  We had planned to go to this restaurant in an orange orchard, a restaurant that we had gone to 2 years ago for our anniversary that we really enjoyed.  The problem was the I was exhausted and felt like I was coming down with something.  I really didn’t want to schlep somewhere an hour away and then first start eating at 9.  So we stayed local and had a nice meal in a small cafe.  We plan to celebrate another time.  It won’t be for 3-4 weeks b/c of Eric’s travel schedule but at least we went out and had a nice time and celebrated that way!

Today I brought the kids to school and dropped Ben off with his eggs, carrots and harmonicas for his party in school.  I did some laundry and then took Keren to the park in the morning while Eric went to ulpan.  He goes to a formal ulpan and I have my Israeli friends in the park which is my informal ulpan.  We also picked up her iron drops that she has to start taking again.  Her iron is still low and we have to bring it up. 

Tonight I have tennis but it’s beginning to look like rain.  Part of me will be happy that I will get to sleep early but I really miss it when I don’t play.