Last day of vacation

Well, today was the last day that the kids had of vacation.  Of course, school ends tomorrow at 11:45 am, but nevertheless, it’s the last day of vacation!

We didn’t do much today.  Just some errands.   Talia has been pressuring me to get her a new backpack for school.  I thought that she would use the one that she got in camp (for free) this summer but she insisted that it was a boring color (navy) and she wanted one with a lot of girly colors.  Anyway, today I gave in and bought her a pink bag with Bratz on it or with Barbie on it.  One of the two.  The quality is not the best but that’s what they all have here and it was 150 shekel!!  WHATEVER!!  Now she will have a pink bag like the 30 other girls in her class and she’ll be happy.  We also had to get something called a “bookie” in Hebrew.  It’s basically a workbook with fun things to do in it that the teacher asks them to take out and do when they’ve finished their assignment.

Once we got finished with those two errands we went back to the house and Talia played with the kids while Ben ran some errands with Eric.  I now have a new cellphone number and I can actually use it!  Yay!  I was sitting outside on the swing bench thing that they have and a friend of mine from camp drove by and asked if I wanted to go for coffee.  So I grabbed Keren and left Talia here to play (under supervision) and went out for coffee.

Later in the afternoon there was “a happening” here on the yishuv.  There was basically a carnival.  Eric took the kids while I cleaned the new house.  Well, I attempted to clean the house.  There was a ton of dust and I got some of it.  Tomorrow is the day we move in, even though our lift is still not here, and I wanted to get a head start on the cleaning.  Because the house is new, there is a  ton of dust.  I just went through this with my house in NY and now I am going through it again here.  Tomorrow we have someone coming to clean the house and I am sure she’ll do a better job than I did with the Sponga – that’s the mop that they have here in Israel.  I couldn’t figure out whether it was better to dump the water on the floor and squeegee it out the front door or use it like a mop.  I tried both and didn’t get very far with either!!

Tonight we got the kids into bed by 7:30, much to their chagrin, because we have to be at school at 8:00!! I wish they would start school an hour later and end an hour later.

Wish us luck!