Happy Mother’s Day!

Shabbat was nice.  Nothing much out of the ordinary.  Friday night we put the kids to sleep and then ate a nice quiet meal by ourselves.  Shabbat day I spent the morning relaxing while the kids were in shul with Eric and Keren took a 3 hour nap!

We ate lunch and then the neighbors came over to play with the kids.  Eric took a nap on the couch while I played with Keren and with Ben (he would come play with me when the girls were being mean to him).

At 4 I took Keren and Ben to the park and Eric followed a little while later.  Keren had a blast sliding down the slide and playing on the swings.  I was exhausted from carrying her all over the place.  Gone are the days when she sits on my lap or in the stroller content to watch the kids play.

We came home with Keren and Ben and gave them their dinner.  Talia came home a little while later and ate and then we got them all to sleep.  Talia heard all the noise outside while she was trying to fall asleep and decided that next week she is going to take a nap in the afternoon so she can stay up late until after Shabbat is over so she can also play outside.  We’ll see what happens…

I finished an amazing book that I highly recommend called The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.  I read it for my book club and it was really great.  I think I read the whole thing in 3 or 4 sittings. 

After Shabbat we watched Bride Wars which Eric had downloaded on his last trip to America.  It was adorable.

This morning Eric let me sleep late and he took the kids to school.  I woke up and came down and saw Keren and Eric sitting on the couch watching Baby Einstein.  Keren was mesmerized.  She didn’t move the while time and at the end Eric had a huge drool stain on his shirt.

I cleaned off the baby seat that goes on the back of my bike and we put Keren in a went for a bike ride. It was short lived b/c the helmet was much too big on her.  The other kids used it but they were each one and a half. Keren is not yet one.  So I am going to have to figure something out.  I don’t think they make helmets much smaller than that.

We came home and put Keren in for a nap and then just hung out before the kids came home from school.  I wanted to watch the last episode of Grey’s Anatomy but something happened during the download and it was on good!!  So sad!!  I hope another one comes in so I can watch it tonight.

When the kids came home we went out to lunch at a place in Modiin, kind of as a Mother’s Day thing.  The kids loved the food there (they both got a different kind of pasta while Keren shared all of our food) and they were really good.  It was very nice.

When we came home Talia went straight to English and we went to find out what houses are on the market or for rent here.  I think we need to keep our options open and figure out what we are going to do after the summer.  I have a feeling we are going to have to find another house.  Our landlord won’t give us an answer to whether we can have the house another year.  Anyway, there is not too much out there but we are optimistic that something will come up anyway.

After that I went to pick Talia up and we came home and did some practice on English spelling words since she didn’t do too well on her test.  Ben and Keren went outside to play with Eric and when we were finished with the spelling words we played cards.

By this evening Grey’s Anatomy was downloaded and we watched it and now we are watching 30 Rock, my new favorite show!!!