Stood Up!

I can’t believe it, I just got stood up by my dressmaker!!  I showed up and she wasn’t home?!  I don’t know where she could be.  She has little kids and it’s 8:30.  Then again, Israelis don’t put their kids to sleep until after 9 so maybe she is out partying with them.  I am aggravated.  This is like dealing with Mary “the dressmaker from hell” who I used twice in New York.   The only difference was that you knew she was going to pull crap but she was cheap.  Okay, I am finished venting now.

This morning Eric took Keren to the supermarket and I stayed home and baked challah.  Then he ran out to do some other errands and I put Keren to sleep and sat outside and got some color.  I want to be tan for the wedding b/c I have to wear a light yellow that looks terrible on my skin.  I figure that if I am tan it will look good.  I sat out for only 45 minutes and got nice color.  So, if I do it 3x a week, I figure in a month I will be nice and dark.

When the kids came home we went to my grandparents.  My grandmother and I took the kids to the park after they watched some tv.  They were covered in sand (ewwww) from the park and we decided to give them baths before going out to dinner.  I didn’t even care that they were putting on their dirty clothes, they were so sandy and dirty that it didn’t matter, I just wanted the sand washed off of their bodies.

We went out to eat and my grandfather came too, which was nice.  Eric held down the apartment and worked from their place while I ordered food to go for him.

Oh, just got a call from my dressmaker…  She thought our meeting was for tomorrow and I thought it was for today.  There is no way in the world that I was wrong!!  She was using her fancy shmancy IPhone and messed it up, I am sure. I used my handy dandy piece of paper and pen and there is no mistaking that!  We made appointments for last Wed., this Wed., and 2 weeks from now on Wed.  PLEASE!!  Well, at least she apologised!

Getting back to our day:  The rest of the day went quickly.  We picked Eric up and headed home and threw the kids into bed.  Oh, on the way home Ben dozed and Keren was quietly listening to music and Eric was working and Talia was talking to me the whole time.  She wouldn’t shut up.  On and on and on and on.  Questions about things and just telling me things.  Oh. My. G-d!  I wanted to glue her lips closed.  Good luck to my brother who just had twin girls!

So now I am tired and I have to pick up the cleaning man tomorrow so I am going to call it a night.

Happy Yom Yerushalayim!!