Ulpan has just been extended!!

Okay, I have to start off with the latest news that I just received, that being that ulpan was just extended starting this month and going until July!!  I can’t believe it!  I am going to go Monday morning and see what the story is.  It also means  I have to figure out what to do with Keren on weeks that Eric is not around since she has been very difficult lately when I take her to class with me since she is so old.  Even if I only go on weeks that Eric is home and don’t go when he isn’t, this is great.  I am so happy to be able to learn more Hebrew!

So today was a really long day.  Last night was a long one.  Keren woke up screaming and wouldn’t stop even after I held her for a while.  I couldn’t get her back to sleep.  I finally did and I was exhausted this morning when I woke up.

After the kids went to school I took Eric’s mom to the mall in Modiin and we did some shopping.  We came home and I went to get my eyebrows done while she fed and played with Keren.  Then I put Keren in for a nap and she went to get Ben from school.  We were having a big BBQ here this evening with friends that live in Modiin and friends who are visiting on their pilot trip.  So Ben and Eric’s mom made cupcakes for dessert.  While they were baking I took a nap!!

The next thing I knew, Talia came upstairs to wake me up to tell me that her friend sat on her bag and broke it.  I came downstairs and fixed her bag and got ready for the BBQ.  This was my first time using the BBQ for something other than hot dogs so it was good that Eric’s mother was here to help me and make sure I didn’t burn the food.  I did forget to take the plastic off some of the hot dogs though.  Woops.  Anyway, I was worried that maybe Keren had an ear infection again so I called to make an appointment and they said the doctor didn’t have any appointments available and that I could see another doctor.  So I said that I needed to see him b/c we like him adn I have a baby who is in pain and this doctor that I like won’t be in until Sunday or maybe even Monday, etc.  I was so Israeli.  I got the appointment!!  So the appointment was for 5:10 and my company was there.  So Lois said she would run across the street with her and take her to the doctor.  Turns out that she has another ear infection, or maybe this one just never went away.  Who knows?  So I had the company and a miserable child and thank goodness Lois was here to help cook and clean up b/c I had to hold Keren most of the time. 

When they left at 7:30 I took Keren to get the medicine for her ears and Lois stayed back and put the kids to sleep and started cleaning up.  I felt bad that she was working so hard, which is funny b/c if it was my mother helping me I wouldn’t have felt so bad. 

I came home just before 8 and kissed the kids goodnight and gave Keren her medicine and nursed her and put her to sleep.  Then I finished cleaning up and I am so tired! 

Oh, I don’t know if I wrote that I cleaned off the license plate number and the gate to the yishuv still wouldn’t open for me.  SO then I took a black marker and went over the numbers on the plate and it still didn’t work (even though the security guard promised it would).  Anyway, I totally gave up on it but then tonight it worked!!  The guard even wished me a mazel tov!  Only in Israel!!