Too many kids in my house

I think that yesterday was uneventful so I decided to skip the blog and write today instead.  One thing that did happen was the shomer in Ben’s school came up to me after school and said how cute Ben is.  He said that he hangs out with him all the time during playtime in the yard.  I think Ben has a lot of questions that he likes to ask him.  He has a huge rifle so I am sure that has something to do with Ben’s obsession with him.  He talks about him all the time. 

Today Eric and I went to Yerushalayim for the morning.  It was really nice.  We took Keren, of course, who behaved like a little angel.  She slept in the car on the way there and then sat so nicely in her stroller the whole time we were walking around.  She even fell asleep on the way back to the car and then transferred to her car seat.  The only time she got upset was when we were 5 minutes from home.  What a pleasure.  It was really nice walking around with Eric and Keren and not having Talia and Ben.  No one was kvetching that they were bored or they didn’t want to walk anymore.  I think we are going to go every Wednesday from now on.  We parked in the lot of a new outdoor mall that they have there.  It was a beautiful mall with a lot of fancy and overpriced stores.  We walked to the Old City and went to Hodaya, the jewelry store that Eric bought me a necklace from that has the kids’ names engraved in it and a pasuk with my name on it.  We had him add Keren’s name to it.  Then we walked to Ben Yehudah Street and got some coffee and a pastry.  Then we went to this place that does paper cut outs and ordered a sign for my cousin Avi and Miriam’s door to their home.  They just moved into a new apartment so I thought it would be a nice gift.  We did a little more walking around and then we came home.

Robin’s daughter had an interview at some school in Yerushalayim so she asked me to take Eitan home with Ben.  Eric went to get them and when they came home Eitan said his ear hurt him.  He was really sad and just wanted to go home.  I called Robin and she said she would make an appointment with the doctor and that I should just give him some medicine in the mean time.  Until the medicine kicked in he was pretty miserable.  I felt so bad for him.  They wound up just watching Finding Nemo for a while and then we made some popcorn when Eitan got sad again and hung out.  Talia came home with a friend whose mom had to go to the doctor with one of her kids and since the doctor is across the street, she figured it would be easier to pick her up from here afterwards, rather than her daughter walk home and have to wait there in case she was a few minutes late.  So there were a bunch of kids in my house and it was a pretty crazy afternoon!

Talia had a ton of homework last night and we didn’t finish it and then her teacher just gave her more homework tonight.  She basically did homework from the time her friend left, through dinner and then after her shower and we didn’t finish until close to 8.  It was practically 2.5 hours of homework!  It was crazy.  Her reading is really coming along and I get the feeling that she is understanding most of what she reads.  So it is paying off.  Tomorrow she has a crazy day with swim right after school and then instead of Rinat coming to help with Hebrew, she has a birthday party.  So she’ll have very little time to do homework tomorrow but she usually only has about 5 minutes of math on Thursdays and it’s easy for her.

So that’s what’s going on here.  The weather has been stunning.  I think Eric said that tomorrow is going to be as warm or warmer than today and then on Friday the temp. is finallygoing to fall a bit again.  So it might be a chilly Shabbat.  We’ll see.  In the meantime, it’s been like spring here.  Have yet to put on a winter coat which is good since I am not sure where mine is!