Shabbat in RBS

So Friday I was reaaaaalllly tired all day.  I couldn’t fall asleep the night before and then Keren was up a bunch of times and then Ben wet his bed again for the second night in a row or something like that, i can’t even keep track anymore.  So the kids walked to school and I got back into bed but of course Keren woke up 10 minutes later.  We snuggled for a bit and the got up and started our day.  We went to the flower store to pick up flowers for Shabbat and then we came home and straightened up a bit and then she went in for a nap and Talia came home (I cannot catch a nap anywhere).

We packed up and we left to Ramat Beit Shemesh around 2:30ish.  I didn’t know where we were going and I was afraid it was going to take me a while to get there and they make early Shabbat there according to Jerusalem.  We got there with no problem and settled in nicely.  Let me just say the kids had a BLAST!!!!  The people that we stayed by we know from camp.  They have 4 kids all around my kids’ ages but not exactly.  So they all played together most of the time and it was great.  They were so busy.

Friday night we lit candles and a couple of people walked over.  One of them lives next door and I know for a while.   It was nice to see her and see how they are doing since we both moved here this summer.  Anyway, my friend who we were staying by had 5 of her girls over that she teaches in yeshivah.  They were all very nice.  The kids were running around like nuts and having a blast.  At one point the kids of the family that we went to were sitting on their father’s lap while they were singing a zemer.  Ben went onto his lap also and sang with them.  It was so sweet.  Today he asked me if they were going to ”bench”.  I asked him why he was asking, did he want to sing a zemer and sit on their dad’s lap again.  He said yes!  So cute.

 By the time the meal ended and I got them to sleep it was about 9:30.  I put them all in and then got into bed myself around 10.  Keren and I shared a room and Talia and Ben shared a room.  Around 12 Keren made some noises and I stuck her pacifier in her mouth.  I was glad that she had woken me up b/c I knew I had to take Ben to the bathroom a couple of times b/c I really didn’t want him to have an accident in some one’s house.  So I took him and went back to sleep.  Next thing I know it’s 2:30 and Talia is in my room waking me up telling me that she is nauseous and has to throw up!!  So we go into the bathroom and we are trying to be really quiet and I decided to get Ben and take him to the bathroom again just to be safe as long as I am up.  So he is peeing and then Talia starts to vomit and there is nowhere to vomit since he is peeing and she vomits all over herself and the floor.  So I carry Ben back to bed and then start running all over the house looking for something to clean the vomit up with.  The bathroom was small so the vomit is all over and the two of us are slipping and sliding on vomit.  It was lovely.  Then Talia gets naked and goes into the shower b/c she is smelly.  Of course Keren starts crying at this point.  As I was about to cry she stopped crying and I was able to shower Talia and put on a pair of Ben’s pjs (I didn’t bring extra for her but I did for Ben) on her and clean up the bathroom and get everyone back to bed.  Keren never even wound up waking up again and slept through the night (OF COURSE!!)

In the morning Talia felt fine and I explained to my friend why she heard the water running in the middle of the night.  She couldn’t believe it.  I felt bad that she now has to wash the rugs that were in her bathroom but I folded them up neatly and put them into her laundry room.

We all went to shul around 10, just as it was over.  The kids woke up and played nicely in the morning and ate breakfast before Keren and I made it down around 8.  After shul I went to see my other friend’s apartment and meet her husband and children who I had never met.  They weren’t there but she showed me around her apt. 

We then went home for lunch.  For lunch they had another family whose husband/father was also away.  It was very nice.

Ben started to melt down a bit after lunch.  He wanted some candy that some of the kids had who were outside and he was just being unreasonable.  I read to him and to some of the other kids.  At 3:30 they have a rotating tehillim group for girls.  The kids both went with my friend, she said Ben could go, and I went to rest for a little since Keren was napping.  As I got into bed and took out my book Keren woke up!!  Why does she do this to me??  She didn’t love the pack n’ play and she wouldn’t sleep in it for more than half an hour (other than at night).  So we snuggled in bed for a while and then went downstairs and joined everyone outside. 

Talia was having a great time jumping rope with some kids from the neighborhood.  Ben was watching.  When he saw me come down he came over and we played ball together. 

We went up and had seudat shlishit and then havdallah shortly after that.  I packed up and we left and the kids were home and in bed by 7:30 tonight.  They were ZONKED.  Ben and Keren were asleep after 5 minutes in the car.  They kept saying what a great time they had and that they want to go back again.  Ben was complaining in bed tonight that he wanted to be there and asked more than once why we couldn’t stay there another night.  They were so cute.

Anyway, that’s how our weekend was.  Now I am just watching some Slingbox and waiting up so that I can take Ben to the bathroom soon.