Today’s word of the day…

Well, Keren was up again last night.  I think she was up 3 times, actually!!!  At least I got to sleep early enough that when she woke up the first time at 12, it didn’t really bother be because I had already slept for a couple of hours and it felt like the middle of the night to me and not the beginning of the night.

Before ulpan I found the store that’s down the block from Talia’s school where she goes on Friday to buy herself a treat with her own money and I got myself a yummy iced coffee.  It’s more of a smoothie that’s a coffee flavor.  I brought it with me to ulpan.  I have to show it to Eric when he comes back.  Definitely the highlight of my morning.

Ulpan wasn’t so easy today with Keren.  Geri, the grandmother who loves Keren and hold her a lot of the time, didn’t show up again today!  So I had her all to myself and that proved to be a bit difficult at times.  I look forward to the upcoming weeks when Eric will be home and he’ll be able to take her off my hands for part of the time.

On my way to get Ben today I ran into my friend Robin.  She said, “are you writing about me in your blog?”  She had heard from my cousin and Eric’s grandmother that she is in the blog.  I said, “absolutely!”  It was funny.

After Ben finished school I picked him up and we went to the supermarket in Modiin.  Unfortunately, even though I’ve been there a least 5 times and even driven there once before on my own, I missed one of the turns and then couldn’t get back to where I needed to be and we were driving around for a long time and Keren was screaming in the car (as she loves to do) for most of it.    So that wasn’t fun.  During the time we were in the car I noticed that Ben hadn’t eaten his cucumbers.  I asked him why he didn’t eat them in school and he said that the teachers that spoke only Hebrew were there today and that he didn’t know how to open the bag (I use the cheap bags and tie knots in them) and he didn’t know how to ask her help   So every day we try to have a word of the day here and today’s word of the day was poteach (open) so that it won’t happen again.  I also told him that he should have just brought her the bag and she probably would have figured it out.  Well, I opened the bag for him and he didn’t even want them in the end.  Maybe the whole story was made up, who knows. 

Once I did get to the supermarket it was great b/c the supermarket there is like a big Stop & Shop.  It’s big and clean and open and totally worth of extra 12 mins or so that it takes to get there.  We bought tons of stuff and came home and started cooking for Shabbat. 

Talia came home shortly after.  She had swim today and said that it was great.  About 10 minutes after she came home the girl that I have coming to help her with her homework and speak to her and play games with her in Hebrew came over.  That was really great.  She played with her and they did homework together and Talia had a great time.  Ben even got in on the action as well.  Then I fed the 3 of them and they played some more and then she left.  She is a real sweetheart and even if this doesn’t help Talia’s Hebrew and I have to get someone else to tutor her (a grown up) I think that I’ll have her come as long as she wants to b/c it allows me the opportunity to get stuff done around the house on a Thursday afternoon!

Talia has become very good at jumping rope.  She has 2 jump ropes and she brings them to school now every day.  If she doesn’t learn anything this year at least she’ll have learned how to jump rope!  It’s the cutest thing.  I will take a video of her and post it as soon as we get high speed internet and I can actually do it.  She we were jumping rope for a while this evening until I finally dragged her inside and into the shower.

Got the kids into bed early again tonight and even Keren, after screaming for a while in bed, is fast asleep now, at least for the time being.

Thanks to my hubby for giving my blog a much needed face lift!!