I don’t know where I’ve left off.  I probably haven’t written in days but I don’t remember what’s been happening so I am going to skip over it completely.  Monday evening we pick Lois up at the airport.  The kids brought her in and right away opened up her suitcase and started taking out their presents.  Lois got Keren a doll that she LOVES.  She is so sweet with the doll.  It’s adorbale.

Yesterday I played tennis in the morning and Eric and Lois took Keren to the park.  In the afternoon the kids had English and then Eitan came over to play.  Eric and I left at 5 to go for our interview at Even Shmuel.  We were supposed to have our interview at 6 but we had to wait 2 hours for our turn!  They finally took us at 8!!  By 8 we were hungry, cold and tired.  They spoke to us for 5 minutes, after which time one of the guys said that Eric is going to be going straight from there to the dentist and he won’t question us anymore!! In case you didn’t get that (b/c I didn’t get it at first) he thought that Eric and I were breaking our teeth to speak Hebrew and he didn’t want to bother us.  I guess that must mean that they didn’t see or hear anything in the previous 3 minutes of the interview that bothered them about us and that we are good to go.   We will oficially know in about a week or so.

Today we hung out in the morning not doing much.  It was kind of cloudy and breezy and not such a nice day to be outside.  Lois and I made an english muffin recipe that I’ve been wanting to try out.  They came out tasting great!!  I can’t wait to make them for my grandmother after Pesach.  I hope she likes them and doesn’t ask anyone to bring her english muffins anymore.  Here is a picture of them:

In the afternoon Talia came home and said she was going to her friend’s house and staying there until her party started at 5:00.  She took her homework and left as quickly as she came in.  Ben came home and I gave him lunch and then we all went (minus Talia) to show Lois Even Shmuel and take pictures by our lot of land (or what we estimate to be our lot).  First we went to a stripmall nearby where we saw last night that they had dumped a huge mound of snow on .  We let Ben and Keren play in the snow a little with the other kids there.  We totally forgot that you need to be wearing gloves when playing with snow so he complained that his hands were cold.  He also complained that the snow in Israel is colder than the snow in America?!?!?!

Anyway, we found the spot that we think is will one day have our house on it and took some pictures and watched some men laying wires under the street, you know, some fun and exciting stuff. 

We drove around a little bit by the old area and then we stopped to play a little bit in an exercise park there so the kids had a little more time to stretch their feet.  We took the kids out to dinner in a cafe nearby and came home in time for putting on pjs, a little TV and bed.

Talia sauntered in at 7:15 and watched a little TV too.  She told me that they didn’t serve any dinner at the party and that she was hungry!  Argh!!

Anyway, I think that brings me up to date.