My personal shopper… Eric!

Eric came home on Friday with tons of clothes for me!!  He did very well on after-the-holiday sales.  He got me a bunch of tops from Old Navy.  It is very exciting!!  I love everything he got for me.

Shabbat we had these 2 yeshivah boys.  They were very sweet and kept mostly to themselves.  The basically came in 2 hours before Shabbat, asked if they could help and when I said no they went into their room, closed the door and didn’t come out until Shabbat.  Friday night we told them to go to the kikar and check out the scene.  We thought they would enjoy it.  On Shabbat day we found out that they got into a fight with some guys and got beat up!  They came home, sans kippot, bloody and all.  We found out today that it was probably their fault in the end.  I found out from Robin who found out from Zahavah, her 16 year old, that they got beaten up by 10th grader “arsim” b/c they totally started with them!  I have to now call the person who placed them with us and let her know what went on.  Oy.

Anyway, the rest of Shabbat was really funny.  We came home from shul and had lunch and then Eric and the guys went to mincha.  While they were gone another kid came to the door looking for them. I told him he could wait here until they came back.  He  came right in, grabbed Keren, kissed her and tossed her into the air!  He had more contact with the kids in 2 minutes than the other guys had the whole time they were here.  Anyway, he stayed for dessert and then took a walk with the guys.  Later they came back to nap and he came back with them.  Eric was asleep on the couch and Keren was napping and the kids were out and I was on the couch reading.  This guy comes back and asks if he can sit outside (it was a beautiful day) and read?!  I said, of course.  Long story short, he stayed until the end of Shabbat while the guys slept on.  It was funny.  He was strange but nice and after havdallah he asked if he could come some time for Shabbat and bring a friend.

Today we went to check out a potential place to live.  It’s called Even Shmuel and it is south of here, about 45 minutes south on Road 6.  It was nice.  Something we are seriously considering.  We went with 3 other families from Modiin and with our neighbor across the street from us here.  We could build a very nice size house there and if the right people move in, it could be very nice.  So we’ll see.

In the afternoon we did a lot of homework and played outside until it got dark.