She’s heeeere!

The countdown is over, Eric’s mom has arrived!!  It’s so nice to see her.  The kids are so happy!!

The day started the same as usual.  Got the kids to school and then Keren and I ran to the supermarket to do a quick shop.  We came home and she took a very short nap and we straightened up the house a little in anticipation of my mother-in-law coming.  I tried to get her to nap again but it didn’t work.  So I cooked a little for dinner and then went to get Ben from school. 

Ben and Keren ate lunch and then we went to pick Talia up and off to the airport it was!

We got there with plenty of time to spare since her flight was delayed 20 minutes and we got ice cream, as I had promised them and waited.  Ben had to pee so I took him and just as I thought she was going to come out, he had to go to the bathroom again!!  This time for a bit longer.  So I left Talia to wait for her and took Keren and Ben and when I came back she was there with Talia. 

We came back to the yishuv just on time for Ben’s karate class.  So I dropped Talia, Ben and Lois off there since Ben wanted bubby to see him and Talia wasn’t going to miss out either and I took Keren home and made part two of dinner.

They walked home and came in around 5 and we ate and did homework and got the kids to sleep.  This evening I was supposed to have a tennis lesson with 3 other women from Modiin.  I was VERY excited, to say the least.  I got ready and sat down on the couch to feed Keren and I thought I might as well check my e-mail while I was nursing and I saw an e-mail from the girl who was organizing it apologising and saying she guesses it was meant to start next week.  Not so sure what happened but assume she screwed up in some way.  So sad!!  So, I hung out in the kitchen talking to Eric’s mom and catching up.  Then I sent her to take a shower and to bed since she hadn’t slept on the 14 hour flight over from LA!!!!!  She said she hung out with the flight attendants!  Too funny!

Just a side note.  We have 2 gates to our yishuv.  One is for non residents and you have to see the guard and he decides whether to let you in or not (they always let you in).  The other one is for residents and you go to the mazkirut and they photocopy your license and registration and then the gate opens automatically for you.  So I did this when I was driving my grandfather’s car with no problems.  When Eric went to do it for our car it never worked!  So they told us to wait, that they had to update the computer system.  So we’ve been trying it every so often and when it doesn’t work we have to back up and hope there is no one behind us who might be annoyed and go through the other gate.  Today I decided to try it this morning and it didn’t work.  So I backed up (there was no one behind me) and I asked him what the story was and he told me to clean the license plate off and it would work.  So I went home and, like an idiot, cleaned it off knowing full well that it wouldnt’ work.  When we got back from the airport I decided to try it again.  of course it didn’t work, but this time there were about 5 cars behind me and they were all annoyed at me and it was a very stressful situation to try to get them all to back up and let me go the other way.  Oy!!  SO this time he told me that the numbers are not clear on the license plate b/c some of them have parts that are scraped off and I should color the numbers in with black marker!!  So, like an idiot, I did when I got home.  I don’t think that it’s going to work, even though he told me that it would 100% work.  I am going to try it again tomorrow morning, when there is not so much traffic coming into the yishuv and I’ll post whether it works now!