what a day!

SO I didn’t get a chance to post yesterday because we came home late.  So here it goes:

Yesterday Eric woke me up looking for my brand new teudat zehut.  He had to go to Yerushalayim to fill out some paperwork so they would release the lift.  He couldn’t find it anywhere and he wanted to know where it was.  I told him it was in my bag but it wasn’t.  It also wasn’t in the car, the stroller, the folder he’s been carrying around or at the bank, which is where I last had it!!  Luckily, I called Savta and she remembered Eric asking me for it when we were at her apt. yesterday.  It turns out it was next to her computer and Eric forgot it there!  HA!!  Just as he was shooting me the evil eye, we found out he never gave it back to me.

So while Eric went first to Petach Tikvah and then all the way to Yerushalayim, we went to get Talia her books and her T-shirts and her school supplies.  We walked to the “book store” on the yishuv and luckily bumped into a friend of mine that I know from Camp Moshava and her daughter.  She is the woman who stars in the Baal Gan vieo that the yisuv made.  Anway, she took the list from me, gave it to the woman, told the woman I would be back to pick them up tomorrow and whisked me and the kids off in her car to the T-shirt place and to school supplies store. 

Let me explain to you, Talia has to wear these t-shirts to school with a little emblem on the corner and she can wear any skirt that she wants to.  I think that most of the skirts that she has are too short for school but luckily I have a bunch of longer ones coming on the lift so she’ll be okay.  Anyway, we walk into the store (called Stoochies) and there are wall to wall Israelis pushing and shoving.  Well, maybe not pushing and shoving but there is a lot going on.  Had I gone myself, I am sure I would have turned around and left.  So we decided to make a list of what we needed, what color shirts the girls wanted and leave it there but by the time we did all that, the line was gone and after stopping off for a bite of pizza accross the street, the shirts were ready.

Next we went to another store to get her supplies.  That only took about 15 minutes.  I actually handled that myself.  I spoke Hebrish to the girl working there and she helped me find what we needed.   We walked in just before Eric and he was impressed by what we got done.  Frankly, so was I.

I took the kids to ices in the afternoon after the makolet opened back up.  It is hard to get used to the fact that things here are closed mid day.  i keep wanting to go out and Channah keeps telling me that the place that I want to go is closed as I am halfway out the door.  After they picked their ices I took them to the new house.  I was worried b/c the second floor has a master bedroom and two other bedrooms.  I wanted to put Keren in one and Ben in the other and then put Talia upstairs on the third floor which has a nice small room for her with a skylight and then a very big room that we’ll use as the den/playroom.  I thought that she would never agree to it.  She took a look at the skylight and saw that she could have her own bathroom next door to her room and she grabbed it!!  I only hope that she won’t be aftraid up there at night.   The truth of the matter is that that’s where I’ll probably be hanging out when i am not in the kitchen or my bedroom befroe i go to sleep so she’ll have the company next door.  So the kids seemed to like the house.

In the evening we went to a much anticipated Bar Mitzvah of Eric’s cousin.  It was in a place called Eretz Bereishit.  It was basically on a mountain overlooking Jordan or Jerico, I think the latter and they had beautiful tables set up in the middle of nowhere with pottery for the kids and camel rides and music and a bedeoiun tent (don’t know how to spell that) and it was just an amazing atmosphere.  I took some pictures.  Click on the link to see them:  http://www.yorkphoto.com/share/p=869271219865657412/l=418862454/g=70636009/cobrandOid=1002/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB

We got home really late, it was far away, and the kids got up late again this morning.

Now for today:

Today was pretty uneventful.  We went to misrad haclita today to find out about some of our benefits that we have as new olim.  The kids were pretty bored.  Next we went for pizza (I had schwarma) and did some other errands.  Of course, we went to a store that was reccommended to us to get Ben his kippot and tzizit and they were closed!!  I am never going to learn.

In the evening we had a BBQ here.  Channah invited some friends from camp.  It was nice but I was tense b/c we had to go to Talia’s school tonight for orientation and I was nervous that I wouldn’t get the kids in to sleep on time.  Of course, I didn’t get them to sleep.  I showered them and left them here to watch a movie while we were out and we took Keren.

The orientation was all in Hebrew, of course.  I understood maybe 5% of it.  Luckily I sat next to Eric on one side of me and an Israeli on the other side of me who helped me understand.  By the end my head was killing me and I was ready to go!!  The fact that the air in the room wasn’t working didn’t help matters either.  SO hopefully Talia will have what she needs for school b/c I really didn’t understand much.  Now I know how she’s going to feel on her first day!!  Glad it’s only until 11:45!!

Came home and put the kids to sleep and now Keren won’t go to sleep and I am zonked.  Tomorrow we have another full day so I’ll end this here and see if I can get her to sleep.