Robin is the best!!

Hell of a day Eric and I had today!  We had to take this stupid, ridiculous test today to get into the yishuv that we want to live in.  You would think that it’s a meeting with people on the vaad and they ask you questions about yourself or something like that.  Well, it’s not!!  Today was a day full of copying pictures, drawing a tree and making up a story about that tree, telling a story about 3 pictures that they showed up, drawing pictures inside circles, making paper airplanes and participating in other stupid stupid stupid activities.  Thrown in there were some questions about ourselves and an interview with a woman who, I’m sure, doesn’t live on the yishuv and is employed by the testing center.   Oh, and it was in Hebrew!  We were told that we could answer in English and not have to pay an extra 150 shekels to have them translate it but in the end they charged us (but not our friends who took it last week) and by the end we said that as long as they were charging us that they could give us the rest of the test in English.  So the hard stuff was in Hebrew and the easy stuff was in English.  Oh well.

Meanwhile, what to do with our kids when we have to be there from 8 am to 2 pm??  Well, thank you thank you thank you Robin Zemel for rescuing us!  We zipped out of the house at 7:40 this morning (we were told we could get to the testing center in yerushalayim at 8:30 instead of and dropped Ben and Keren off at Robin’s house and then took Talia to school.  She took care of Keren all day and made sure that Ben went to and from school and English.  Talia went to a friend’s house and her mother took her to English and then I picked them up from gymnastics at the end of the day.  Robin went so far as to tell us to go out for lunch after the horrific morning that we had.  She said she had everything under control.  We went!!  I wonder if we can take her with us to Even Shmuel, assuming that I drew the right pictures this morning, that is!

After a day like today I don’t feel very much like blogging.  I will just say that tonight when I picked Talia up from gymnastics she was helping the other girls clean up like she was supposed to be doing.  They all pick the mats up over their heads and carry them over to where the teacher piles them up.  I noticed tonight that Talia is so short that she kind of jumps as she walks to lift the mats up b/c the other girls are so much taller than she is and they lift them up higher then she can actually reach.  It’s so funny!