First long Shabbat

Eric came home on Friday. My cousin’s husband picked him up and brought him home for us since he had a necklace for my cousin that Eric had picked up in America for him and he wanted to give it to her ASAP. So that was a huge help and I was able to let Keren nap instead of schlepping her with us to the airport.

Friday, when I woke up at the crack of dawn with Keren, I saw that Eric’s flight was going to be delayed which meant he wouldn’t have time to make the BBQed chicken and I was going to have to learn how to! I made an awesome rub and I BBQed the chicken and it was great. Eric said that I am going to take away the only thing that he does! I think I am going to BBQ every Shabbat. It’s so easy and so good and the kids will eat the chicken that way and not complain!!

Our guest came about 2 hours before Shabbat and the kids played together while we finished up around the house. They also have 3 kids. The little one is a little girl who is 1 and she and Keren were so cute crawling around the house together!! They had a great time playing with eachother!!

Friday night we went to Channah’s house and it was hard, as was expected. Ben was complaining he was tired before we even got there but then played nicely once we were there. I walked Keren around in her stroller and she fell alseep and stayed asleep for a little while but then she woke up and she was kvetchy during the rest of the meal.

We got home and put the kids to sleep and they woke up this morning around 7:30-ish. Not too bad. The rest of the day was a little difficult b/c Ben napped for half and was fine but Talia was a disaster the whole day. It was a quiet day, at least, and we stayed in the whole day after shul and played and hung out. Our guests ate out at the Shabbaton that they were here for and came back around 4 ready to just chill. So we all ate seudat shlishit and the kids played and we had our kids in bed at 7 on the dot.

Below I am going to post all those videos that I took of Talia at her last swim class: