Dust Storm

Today we got an early start and after the kids went to school and Keren finally woke up (she slept through now that her ears aren’t bothering her) after 8, we went food shopping.  I stopped in at the place that I like to get my chickens and bought them while Lois waited in the car.  I just found out that they don’t sell chicken breast on the bone in that store.  I don’t know if they do sell it elsewhere and just not there but they did sell it there.  So I bought a while chicken and did a fine job of cutting it apart so Lois could have white meat chicken to eat for Shabbat if I do say so myself!!  i wanted to show Lois that we do have beautiful big supermarkets in the area so next we went to Modiin and we shopped there for a little while.  On the way back Keren fell asleep and Lois stayed in the car with her while I went to one more place.

When we came home I put Keren in her bed and she stayed asleep and I started cooking for Shabbat and Lois went to lie down since she hadn’t slept the night before AT ALL!!  Seriously, she said she slept from 10-11:30 and then she was up the rest of the night.  I don’t know how she is functioning at all!!

When they both woke up my cleaning man came.  We are trying a new day and time and I think it’s working out.  The winds shifted and we were getting some really warm air here.  So Lois fed Keren her lunch and then took her for a walk and picked Ben up from school.  When they came home we decided to get out of the way of the cleaning man and we went out for lunch with Ben.  We went to a falafel place here in Modiin.  It was good!!!  Ben ate almost an entire half!  He ordered his with chummus and pickles.  So cute.

We came home and started making the challah for Shabbat.  Talia came home shortly after that.  It was the weirdest thing, there was a sand/dust storm outside.  We had the windows and doors open and everything was being covered in sand.  It was also very eery.  You could look directly at the sun and it kind of looked like the moon with all the sand in the air. 

We all hung out baking and making challah, etc.  Ben’s friend Chen came over and they went to the park next door to play.  Talia joined them shortly after and they were out there for a while.  Then they went to Chen’s house and I ran to take the cleaning man to the bus station and left Lois feeding Keren the rest of her dinner.

We all got back from our various locations and we braided the challah, ate dinner, took showers and went to sleep.

Keren is in a much better mood since her medicine has kicked in although she is quite gassy and it is the cutest thing!!

I am basically waiting up tonight for Eric to call me and say he’s landed.  I am so tired and I just want to get into bed.  That’s not happening.  His flight looks to be coming in 10 minutes early, I’ll take what I can get.  The kids think he’s coming home during the day tomorrow.   They are going to be so surprised when they see him in the morning.

Lastly, I don’t remember if I blogged this yet, Keren got her 3rd tooth in a couple of days ago.  It is her top left tooth, I believe.  Yay!