It’s raining!!

SO I had no time to blog on Friday.  It just got crazy and I decided that I would just wait until tonight instead of rushing through it and leaving stuff out.  I know how dedicated my readers are to my long and drawn out blogs! 

Friday, after I got the kids to school, I came home and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned.  Luckily, Keren slept a lot better on Thurs. night and when I came home on Friday morning she happily went into her bed for a nap and I was able to clean the house. 

As soon as the kids came home from school I fed them and dropped Talia off at a friend and went to get Eric at the airport.  Unfortunately, El Al’s website was off an hour and his flight was delayed so instead of getting there right on time for him to walk out, we were there an hour early and we had to wait for a while.  On top of this, i didn’t have any diapers left in my bag for Keren and was basically praying she didn’t make.

Anyway, Ben and I killed the time by buying ice cream and people watching.  There was someone there with her kids who bought a balloon, tied it to a really really long piece of dental floss like string and put a piece of tape on the end of it.  She was sending it up to the ceiling where every one’s balloons were and she was fishing for balloons.  It made for entertainment for us, as well as the other people who were waiting for their loved ones.  Really smart idea.  Ben wants to try it next time. 

Eventually Eric came out and we hightailed it out of there.  I had to get Talia and I felt bad that I left her at her friend’s house for so long and my cousin and his wife were supposed to come over to bring us a gift for Rosh Hashana.  So we came home and Eric unpacked and I threw the chicken in the oven.  My cousins came over and gave us a beautiful honey dish!  We gave them a tour of the house and they left to go to their friends in Modiin for Shabbat.

Ben learned how to say cross your arms in Hebrew in gan.  It’s funny, the words he comes up with that he learns in gan and he remembers.  Today he told me that he knows the Hebrew word Rimon!  Also, Talia didn’t come home for a while tonight and he said, ‘Eipho Talia?”  Talia came home from the candy store that she goes to on Friday straight from school with a slushie and she called it by its Hebrew name, barad.  I told her that she was speaking Hebrew.  She didn’t realize it.

Friday night was the first Shabbat meal where we ate at home since we moved.  It was so nice!  We ate after Eric came home from shul and the kids fell asleep on the couch (Ben) and on the floor (Talia).  It was nice not to have to carry them home for a change.  It rained last night.  It actually poured!  Very exciting.  The only problem is that our bikes and strollers are outside and we have to find something to do with them now.  We will probably buy a shed from Robin and put it in the back and use it to store our things this winter.

Keren was up again last night a lot.  Oh well.  She woke up at 7 and I fed her and then Talia woke up and the at 8 (!!) Ben woke up.  I played with the kids and them gave them breakfast.  Eric got up a little later and went to shul.  The kids played/fought a little and then went to shul and then I went shortly thereafter.  Still can’t get used to the fact that it’s over by 10:30.  I don’t get the appeal, quite frankly.  It makes it so much harder to get there for any davening.  So of course I missed all of shul.  We had made up to meet the couple that we were going to go to for lunch at the park behind the shul.  We didn’t know what they looked like and they didn’t know what we looked like but Talia is in class with their daughter so we let the girls find eachother so we could find them.

We had a very nice meal in their house.  They have a HUGE dog.  It’s either a sheep dog or it just looks like one but it was massive.  Ben was afraid but they put it in the back of the house and he was okay.  Also, they had cats that they had to put away b/c Eric is allergic.  Other than the animals, it really was a nice meal.  They are a very nice family.  While we were there it poured again.  It was one of those days where it was sunny and then pouring and then sunny again.  So we never got stuck in it.  The kids played outside for a while and they came in filthy.  They were full of mud.  I was angry at Talia b/c she was wearing a nice outfit and I feel like she needs to start taking care of her nice Shabbat clothing. 

Anyway, we came home and Eric and Keren napped and I watched the kids play/fight and then around 4:30 they want tot he park and I finished my book.  Now I need a new one before Rosh Hashana.   Ben came home a little while later and I fed him dinner and Talia didn’t show up until shabbat was almost over.  We told her that she has to come home earlier than that next time!  Eric got her a watch but he’s yet to finish unpacking and he is worried that he doesn’t remember packing it and it might be in his car in America.  I am hopeful it will show up in one of his suitcases.

We got a babysitter for tonight b/c we had a Bar Mitzvah tonight.  That’s right, we are hanging with the older crowd!  We have another 2 coming up!!  This couple lives accross the street from us and they are very nice.  She explained the whole Tipat Chalav institution when we first move in and told me where to go.  They have a little boy a little bit older than Keren is.  We’ve decided they’ll get married one day.  On the yishuv the kids tend to marry eachother.  So who knows, it might happen.  It was a havdallah and a melava malka.  It was very nice.  The ice cream and cheese cake were definitely highlights of the simcha.

Now we are home and I am zonked and I still have ulpan homework that I may or may not do.  The people who we ate at today didn’t have any AC and for some reason they had no breeze.  We were dripping wet when we left.  Keren is a llittle schvitzer and her hair was soaked aslo.  We left our AC on but when we came home we opened up all the windows and it was gorgeous.  So we need showers now.  So I am off. 

Oh, one thing that I forgot to mention last week is that when Eric was in Ny I called the guy to come and hang up all of our pictures and he came and did it.  So when Eric came home he was surprised to see the pictures all hung up.  The house looks like a home now.  It looks really nice.  It’s also nice to see the pictures up that we haven’t hung up since we moved out of Riverdale!