Won’t be watching the Superbowl

So our friend in White Plains are gathering for their annual superbowl party tonight and they even included us on their invite but we can’t go (obviously) and I am sad that I will be missing the festivities.  Oh well!!  A small price to pay for living here, I guess.

Anyway, Shabbat was uneventful.  We went out for lunch to neighbors across the street.  It was very nice.

The major event of the weekend is that the boiler in the house in America wasn’t working and by the time our tenant called us and we got it worked out, it cause the air handler to freeze and now we have to take care of paying for either a new air handler or just fixing this one and it’s not going to be cheap.  Poor Eric was so worried about it last night that he couldn’t sleep and wound up falling asleep on the couch this afternoon for a while!!

The kids are great.  Talia had a birthday party today after her English chug and she had a blast.  Ben and I went to the toy store to replace his broken night light and he saw all the costumes that they have there for Purim and he is now determined to be a chayal because he wants to buy a really big gun!  He tried to talk me into buying him the gun today but I said no!  he was between that being a witch b/c he saw a walking stick and he LOVES walking sticks (or canes as the rest of us call them).  Keren is waving goodbye all over the place.  We taught her how to and now she won’t stop.  She is hysterical.

Tonight we went out to Petach Tikvah to see my cousin Avi’s new apartment that they just finished building.  It is beautiful.  Nice and big.  I am happy for them.  It was nice to get out but now it is late and I have ulpan tomorrow!  At least my test is over and done with.

It has finally gotten cold here.  That didn’t stop the mosquitoes, unfortunately, last night from chasing us out of our room again!  I have the bug zapper right above my head and I can’t figure out why they won’t fly into it!  Of course it didn’t help that on Shabbat Talia was running away from Ben and ran into our room and knocked over Eric’s home-made mosquito trap and it spilled all over his bed.  So the result is all that smelly stuff in the trap that was supposed to attract the mosquitoes and then they would get stuck in there, it’s now all over is bed.  So they are going to LOVE Eric!!  I tried my best today to get the smell out with a combination of Resolve and baking soda and the vacuum.  I think it worked.

Okay.  I have to sleep.