Business as usual today.  We woke up and got ready for school.  Talia cried again when I left her at school and Ben happily went.  Hopefully one of these days they’ll both be happy to go.  At least tomorrow is a short day so hopefully she won’t cry!

After I dropped off the kids Keren and I came home to pick up the car and head out to the tipat chalav.  When we got home the guy from Bezeq pulled up and was ready to install our phones.  I was psyched and let him in.  After about 10-15 minutes he told me he couldn’t do it b/c we needed a “bikoret”  I ran to write that word down b/c I figured that Eric was going to ask why the guy couldn’t put the line in and I wanted to have some kind of answer for him other than saying that I had no clue what the guy was saying in Hebrew.  well, i still don’t know what a bikoret is but I know that we don’t have one and we need one and until we get one, we won’t have any phone service in the house.  Very annoying.

Next Keren and I hopped in the car and went to the tipat chalav.  I found it with no problem but it was closed.  I guess my phone conversation that I had yesterday with the woman on the phone didn’t go as well as I thought I had.  I must have misunderstood her.  Turns out they are closed every Thursday.  I now have to wait until Monday to take Keren because Sunday OUR LIFT IS COMING!!! 

Yes, you heard right, our lift is coming, they tell you to have 2 people in the house to accept it, and my husband has flown the coop and is partying it up in NY.  Okay, so he’s there for work but I am all alone here and the lift is coming, the lift is coming!!

Anyway, to get back on track, after a morning of cleaning the house again to get it ready for all the stuff that will soon take over the place, I picked Ben up from school.  He had a great day and made a picture of a doobie – a bear.  He also told me that he learned the hebrew word for “quiet”.  He is rocking this language, if I do say so myself!  We hung out the rest of the day together b/c Talia went straight from school to a friend’s house.  I let Ben spill a bucket of water on the floor of the room that will be mine and we squeegeed it into the drain in the bathroom!!  FUN. FUN.

When we picked Talia up she was in good spirits.  I asked her how her day in school was and she replied “good.”  So that made me happy.  She said they had the math teacher almost the entire day.  She later told me that she is forgetting how to count in English b/c they counted in Hebrew all day long today.  HA! She wishes, maybe.  I asked her if she’s going to cry tomorrow when I drop her off and she said she probably will!  I asked her why she will cry if she had a good day today.  I can’t remember her response, though.  We’ll see.  I think by the end of next week she’ll be okay.

We were invited to the Spiegelmans for dinner tonight.  They ordered in pizza.  It was nice to be in a house full of people and furniture again!  Soon we’ll feel really at home here when we have our furniture.  When we get cable service and we have TV my kids won’t want to run out on so many playdates all the time   I think they want to leave so much b/c we have nothing to do here.  I did bring a lot of toys as a friend of mine suggested, but they are tired of those toys and keep asking about their other stuff.  It’s been a long wait.  Unfortunately, because our stuff was sitting at the docks for so long, we have to pay storage fees for it.   It could be worse, our stuff could be in Cypress.  I just found out that a couple who was on our flight had their stuff sent from Israel back to Cypress b/c of the slow down at the docks.  It’s a real mess.  I feel so bad for them.

Well, I seem to have gone off on a tangent so I am going to end this here. I took the cutest video of Keren rolling over!  I can’t seem to upload it though with this connection.  If I can, I am going to take the camera to my grandparents’ house this shabbos and do it before shabbos starts. I’ll add it to the next blog.  They have a better connection there than the wireless that we are “borrowing” here.