Second day at Moshava

So today is the second day at Camp Moshava.  On Tuesday we spent the morning in Riverdale packing up the car and saying goodbye.  We left after lunch and made really good timing to camp.  I think it took us two hours and ten minutes to get here.  The kids were nuts in the car for the first hour or so but once they settled in and relaxed I put a movie on for them on my computer and they watched it until my battery died. 

We got to camp and my friends here were really helpful when we got here.  I was able to pull the car all the way up to the bunk and my friends helped me unload the suitcases and move the beds around.  Talia was amazingly helpful with Keren and she also unpacked her clothing and hung up the skirts and dresses with me. 

Yesterday the kids went to gan.  Keren was a DISASTER!!  Talia and Ben were fine but Talia was a little sad that her two good friends moved into a real bunk this year.  Since then she’s made other friends and I’ve signed her up for kaytana, where she will be in a bunk for 2 weeks, so she’s content. 

Today Keren screamed her head off the entire way down to gan. Yesterday afternoon was a complete disaster where she stayed in her stroller all afternoon and didn’t talk to anyone!!  Today, however, after screaming all the way down to gan and screaming in gan, this nice girl who works there took her for a walk around the basketball courts and talked to her and told her that she had to be good and have fun for mommy so that mommy would be happy.  They said that when she came back she was a different person altogether and socialized and didn’t cry and was amazing.  She left happily for lunch with promises to return for a fun filled afternoon after lunch.  Anyway, she screamed when I took her back to gan in the afternoon but when I went to pick her up they said that she was great and she hardly cried at all.  Talia and Ben both had great days today in camp and are so happy here, it’s crazy. 

 Tonight Eric came up for the weekend.  He was originally supposed to come up tomorrow but his closing was pushed off to next week so he was able to come up a day earlier, which is nice since he has to leave on Sunday for his uncle’s birthday party.  Right now Keren is waiting for me to soap her up in her tupperware bathtub and the kids are at opening tochnit with Eric.  It’s really late but we are letting them stay up this year for the first time.  Off to soap Keren up and put her to sleep now.