Lost earring, a leaky ceiling and another tooth

Shabbat morning I woke up and went downstairs and Talia told me that Keren lost one of her earrings!!  We looked all over for it but couldn’t find it.  I went to look in her crib and the back of the earring was there but not the earring itself.  So the earring is gone and we payed a lot of money for it when we pierced her ears and I am sad.  My parents bought her little pearl earrings when they came for Chanukah so I popped one of them in and she wore one gold ball and one pearl until today when I changed the other one to a pearl and now she looks cute in little pearl earrings.  I am lucky that I was able to find the back to the earring that she lost b/c the ones that my dad gave her are no good, they are way too big but these fit nicely.

Anyway, moving on, I got the kids off to shul and put Keren in for her morning nap and prepared for the company.  We opened our table and put two leaves in (so exciting!) so we could fit 13 comfortably at the table.  Luckily we had extra chairs that we are storing for my grandparents in our house (they were supposed to be in the shed but, as I wrote last Sat. night, our shed is dead).  We had a nice Shabbat.  The kids all played nicely for the most part and the food was great.  I have almost no leftovers!  Everything got eaten. I am not used to having older boys over and I had two 13 yr old boys and they consumed a lot of food.  It was one Shabbat where Eric didn’t tell me that I made too much food!  So because it was a rainy day the company stayed until after Shabbat!! 

We noticed that the rain has caused a few leaks in the house.   One is under the window in our room and another is the ceiling in the living room.  We have to get the contractor to come and look at them.  Luckily the rainy season is just about over and we won’t have to worry about it for much longer.  We’ve been (thank G-d) getting a ton of rain latey but I don’t think it usually rains into March that often…  As I write this it’s pouring…

Keren woke up on Shabbat with another tooth!  That brings that total count to 4.  She now has 2 on top and 2 on the bottom.  She is also standing a lot now.  She practices and tries over and over and over.  She doesn’t tire.   Eric says that by the time he gets back this Friday he’s sure she’ll be standing on her own without falling.  We’ll see.

When Shabbat was over we cleaned up for a very long time.  Eric was extremely helpful.  I have to admit that I have been using a lot of plastic plates lately because of the lack of a dishwasher and the fact that people here have so many kids and I don’t have enough plates for everyone anyway.  So he did most of the washing up and left the glasses and the cholent pot for me but pretty much did everything else.  My cousin called me and told me that she was flipping out because of the new baby and she wanted me to come over and help and perhaps calm her down a bit and give her a pep talk.  So I got the kids to bed and went over there.  The drive over on the dark roads in the rain wasn’t fun but I got there pretty quickly and helped her a little and came home and went to sleep. 

Oh, Ben’s night light broke Friday night so last night he slept with Talia who has the light on in the bathroom in her room.  This is the second light that’s broken.  They just don’t make them well here.  He is sleeping with her again tonight until I buy the light that Eric wants me to buy for him.  What a pain!  The good news is that they like sleeping together and we’ve been having heavy rains and thunder and I think that he sleeps better when he’s in her room.  On Friday night he slept on the floor in our room and informed Eric every time there was a clap of thunder that he heard thunder!  He is very scared of thunder.  He told Eric today that he was crying in gan b/c he heard the thunder.  Poor kid.

Today we had a lazy morning.  I woke up and Eric had already taken the kids to school and fed Keren and put her back in for a nap and got back into bed himself.  It was rainy and yucky.  We just hung out in the morning until the kids came home from school.  After school I had an appointment at the doctor with Keren to make sure her ear was better.  She was pulling on it  a lot and we thought it was probably infected again.  I took the kids with me and Eric stayed home.  They love coming to the doctor, I’m not sure why.  So her ear is better, Thank G-d.  He said that she is probably pulling on it b/c of the teething.  I never heard that one  before but that’s what he said.  And she is teething so maybe he knows what he’s talking about.  He said to rub some whiskey on her gums.  I told her Eric was going to bring some back with his this time when he comes home. 

Talia had English at 3:15 and I ran out to get some buttons for Ben’s chayal costume that needed replacing.  I came home and sewed on some buttons while Keren slept, Eric was playing around with something on the computer and Ben was watching Sleeping Beauty (the original version) on TV. 

We all went to pick Talia up and run a few errands together and then we went out for schwarma.  Turns out the kids like schwarma!!  Poor Keren just ate french fries and some pita and I fed her when we got home.  It was complicated b/c one of us had to hold Keren while the other ate and helped feed the kids b/c we left her stroller at home by accident.  It wound up to be quite a pain and we both scarfed down our food and then felt really sick after that.  It wasn’t  a well planned out dinner.

So Eric is on his way to the airport and I am going to ulpan tomorrow morning and we’ll see how long I last there with Keren.  I kind of hope it stops raining or maybe it can just rain in the parts of the country where they collect the rain so we have water to drink and shower, etc. 

Good Night!