Purim Purim Purim

When I mentioned to my friend on the phone last night that Purim lasts a week in this country she told me that I told her the same thing last year.  I guess I just forgot about it.   Today, yet again, Talia learned absolutely nothing in school and came home to tell me she had some kind of activity with animals, or something like that.  Ben came home with an adorable mask and had a great day in school.

This morning we spent our time buying baskets for our mishloach manot and running to the supermarket and then to the police station where we had to get our criminal record (now I know how to say that in Hebrew) to give to the welcoming committee when we meet them on March 2nd to see if we are accepted to the new yishuv.   Yet another thing that we had to do before being allowed to move in there.  It’s getting quite annoying, I have to say.  So the morning was spent doing errands.   Getting a copy of your criminal record is really funny.  We had to go to the post office and buy stamps.  I thought we were doing that b/c they were going to mail us a copy.  It turns out that you have to buy the stamps b/c you have to pay at the police station for your criminal record.  However, the police are not allowed to take your money, so you buy the stamps and then give them the stamps and then they take the stamps back to the post office and get money for them!!  HA!  I was hysterical when Eric explained that one to me.

We came home to find out that an attempt was made to deliver Ben’s passport.  We weren’t home so we have to call them now and get them to come back with it another time.  Who would have thought they would have come within the first 1.5 hrs they said they would come with it.  Shoot.  At least we still have plenty of time before we need it this summer.

This afternoon I brought  Ben’s friend Gili home with us.  We continued making our chocolates for Purim and doing all kinds of Purim things.  The kids each  made their own shalach manot to bring to school with them for tomorrow.  We made some Hamentaschen for their shalach manots, etc.

Just a funny note about Keren.  This might be one of those you-had-to-be-there stories but I am going to write about it anyway.  Just before going up to bed tonight the kids were showing me their tongues.  First Ben said his tongue was hurting him so I looked at it and it looked fine.  Then I remembered that Talia’s tongue was hurting her last night and so I asked her to stick it out.  I looked at her tongue and it looked all better.  Then Keren saw all this going on and she pulled out her paci and stuck out to tongue and showed it to me,  it was the cutest thing ever!  She has been copying them a lot lately and it’s adorable.

Oh, another thing to add, we got the results of Keren’s blood test back and it seems that now her iron is fine.  After 3 months of giving her that special iron it’s okay now.  So we are all set.  We are going to recheck it once before the summer to make sure that it stays okay but it’s a huge relief for us!