Mazel Tov Ayelet and Jordan!

Today I was really impressed with the kids.  I told them last night that I had to pick up Foster at 7 at the bus and that they had to come down and eat and take care of Keren if she was awake.  When I came home I was sure I was going to find a bleary-eyed Eric downstairs with the kids or just the kids screaming and crying and killing each other or something like that.  When I walked in the door, Keren was in her highchair eating her yogurt and Talia and Ben were finising up their breakfast.  I was so proud of them!!  They CAN do it if they want to!

Talia was very nervous to go to school today b/c she was supposed to have a test in one of those subjects that I don’t know how to translate into English exactly but it’s kind of like science.  They are learning about animate and inanimate object and how to tell if something is alive or not.  The vocabulary is particularly hard and she’s struggling with it.  Until now she’s been bringing home 100s on most of her  math tests and one other test as well in another subject.  She was very nervous about this test saying that she wasn’t going to do well.  I told her that she would do fine but if she didn’t that we didn’t care, as long as she was trying.  And we went over the stuff the night before, even though she said that her teacher said they weren’t allowed to study and there was nothing to study.  Eric said she woke up last night b/c she was worried about the test, poor thing.  I told her this morning to go do her best.  I also told her that if she got a 0 that I wouldn’t care.  Anyway, she came home today and said that her teacher postponed it but told her that it was going to be very very easy and that she shouldn’t worry.

Anyway, this morning we decided to go out to eat breakfast since we haven’t done that in a while.  As we were getting in the car Keren decided that she didn’t want to sit in her car seat and that she wanted to play for a while.  So we were hanging outside the car waiting for her since we were in no rush and the weather was nice.  Friends of ours walked by and we asked if they wanted to join us and they said yes.  So we had a really nice morning eating out with friends.

This afternoon Ben went to Eitan’s house after swim (what else is new?) and Talia came home and we did some reading together.  She read a whole book in Hebrew to me.  It was great. 

In the evening Talia came home from her chug and announced that she forgot all about her homework that she got yesterday that she has to have done by tomorrow.  We were so angry at her b/c it was Torah homework that she really needs help with and I was cooking/feeding the kids/picking up Ben all at the same time and had no time to add homework to that list of things.  I had all the time in the world today to do it with her and yesterday too when my grandparents were here and I could have sat quietly with her and done it.  So we managed to do most of it and I told her to tell her teacher that she forgot about it and we would finish it tomorrow afternoon.  Boy, was I mad!

Busy Shabbat coming up!!  Better get to sleep so I am ready to cook first thing in the morning.