Haven’t been so great about writing.  I feel like I am slipping.  So many late nights lately and no time to write now that the kids are on break from school!!

Yesterday we hung out during the day.  We did a bunch of projects at home and just hung out.  Eric took the car that we are interested in buying to the garage to have it looked at just to make sure it’s okay to buy.  Ben took a short nap in the morning which was good b/c he was such a zombie because Keren woke up at 5:45 in the morning and I thought she might go back to sleep if I let her cry it out instead of feeding her.  Not only did I have to eventually go down and feed her, but she woke Talia and Ben up and they were up for the day! 

In the evening we went to my aunt and uncle in Hod Hasharon for a big family chanukah party.  It turns out that I made both my cousins sick!  I assume it was me since I prepped all the food on Sunday and they came over and ate it!  So Avi was sick on Monday night but he was able to make it to the party on Tues night.  Avivit, however, came down with it Tues evening and not only couldn’t she come but she called her husband back to the house with their child b/c she couldn’t be there alone while she was sick.  Not sure what he could have done for her other than moral support but I guess we all handle vomiting differently!!    I felt so bad!!  The party was very nice.  There were a ton of people there.  We didn’t get home until 11:00.  When we got home I had to clean up the mess from dinner.  I made the kids latkes so that they had something to eat before we left to the party, which only started at 7 (which really meant 8).  We left the house, and kitchen especially, in such a mess and the cleaning man was coming at 7 the next morning.  I basically didn’t get to sleep until close to 1.

Oh, at the party Eric asked my uncle what the garage said about the car because they gave him a report and he had no clue what the report said or what the guys at the garage said since it was all in Hebrew.   It turns out there is a lot wrong with the car!  A lot more than Eric first understood.  Today when he went back to the place, though, they said that they would take care of it all and fix it up for us.  I really hope to have the car by the weekend! 

Today we had plans to go to Yerushalayim to the zoo with friends from camp that live in RBS (Ramat Beit Shemesh).  Unfortunately, it was a really rainy and gross day.  So we made plans for them to come here and go to a paint your own pottery store.  When we got there we found out that we needed a reservation!!  So it was back to the art store (again!) to find stuff of our own to paint.  Luckily we didn’t have to spend money on the paints since I had just bought some the day before!!  So the kids all painted happily and made a mess on my newly cleaned floors.  Then we had lunch and they left shortly after.  Eric went to take care of some of the shopping and by some stroke of luck I was able to get all 3 kids in for a nap at the same time.  I sat down on the couch to check my mail and realized that I could also take the opportunity to sleep!!  I DID!!  I got into bed with Talia and napped!!  yay!!

This evening we went to our friend Channah’s house for another party.  This one was called for 5:45, much kid friendlier time, and the kids had a blast.  Actually, Talia left to go to a pj party and then came back after to join us again.  It was very nice.

Oh, our dining room table came today!!  It is very pretty.  I am excited about it.  Now we just have to order chairs when we can scrape together some more money. 

Other news, if you haven’t already heard, Eric passed his road test! Yay!  He barely passed it.  We can’t figure out why he almost didn’t since he said he drove great and it was only for 5 minutes.  But the important thing is that he passed!  Phew.  Check another thing off the list.

Funny Ben story:  He saw a dog walking when we was coming home from school on Monday with Eric and he said it was a boy dog.  Eric asked him how he knew and he said: “Because I see his big fat balls hanging down!”  he said it very very matter of factly, which is what made it SO cute and not SO gross/rude.

I have cute pics of the kids that I will have to get around to posting, hopefully tomorrow. 

My parents come in tomorrow night.  We are all really excited!  Eric leaves tomorrow night.  We are all really sad!

The weather here is miserable.  Cold and rainy.  We need the rain so I guess it’s good.

Ok.  That’s enough for now.