ulpan and no free time

Rushed to ulpan today after I dropped the kids off at school.  They were so excited that I was also going to school that noone cried today!  hooray!! 

Ulpan was totally fun.  I loved it.  Hard to concentrate for so long in another language and talking is like breaking my teeth but I learned a lot and I think it’s going to be really great for me.  It was also fun to be in a school environment again.  I sit next to a girl who just got married and moved here from France.  She only speaks mostly French and some English.  I look at her notebook and she is writing in French!  Guess I won’t be able to cheat off of her work.  Ha!  Keren was pretty good.  When she got kvetchy I just nursed her.  Another woman in the class was very excited to hold her and she held her for a bit too and that helped.  Next week I’ll have Eric home so he can watch her while I’m there and just bring her to me to nurse.  Luckily ulpan is right around the corner.  I guess everything is kind of close when you are on a yishuv.

I thought that Talia had school until 3:15 but i guess I was wrong b/c she walked in the door at 2:40.  I assume that she didn’t just leave early and that everyone came home at that time.  I’ll have to find out.

Did a little more unpacking and organizing today but obviously not as much as I’ve been able to do the past couple days when I’ve had my mornings free.  I had to do it with the kids home and they like to unpack and play with the things that I am unpacking and then I wind up with a mess and it doesn’t work.  So I gave up after a couple of boxes and now the place is looking kind of messy again.  Oh well.

The kids were really tired tonight and I got them into bed nice and early.  Ben, at one point, was crying because I set up the mobile on Keren’s crib and he said that he wanted a mobile also so he could fall asleep to music too and he started to cry!!  I told him I would find something that played music too.  Talia was just grouchy all afternoon and she needed to go to sleep early too.

Not much else to report on…  kind of a slow day.  Talia has her swim chug tomorrow.  That should be nice for her.

Keren didn’t do much sleeping last night.  I don’t know what that was all about.  I am zonked.   I hope tonight is better.