A kid for a zuz… a kid. a kid.
December 12, 2005Kids update…
Youngest to Oldest.
Tamar is being weaned off the DVD’s. After days and days of Little Rascals and other movies, we’re trying to wean her off of them. She is doing ok in her Gan and bursts out in song every once in a while… modeh ani or something. She thinks every number is 2.
Moshe has started to be interested in learning hebrew. We got a picture book that has hebrew words and sentences and for a marble a word he has become interested. We’re up to the Alephs… Abba Eebade avatiach…..Going to be a long road with that one. We don’t send him to a tutor but he’s able to do the work in his math book.
Michal has told me that she wants to live in jerusalem. So I think shes counting the days until she gets older and lives there. I told her to have a room for me when I visit. She is coming along nicely as she is very keen on seeing what is going on around her. Whether its twisting balloons at the hospital or davening at the Kotel or touring with the lichtsheins. She is really taking it all in. She was a bit upset when I insisted that the tooth fairy needed a note in Hebrew or he / she wouldn’t be leaving any shekels.
Yoni has totally amazed us. He is doing great with his hebrew… and ping Pong. On shabbos I helped him prepare reading a dvar torah. In Aish Kodesh the children read a dvar torah in hebrew for the shul during shalosh seudos. Of the New olim, Yoni is the first one to do it. It is not easy for a 10 year old to speak in a shul, let alone in hebrew without the nekudos. But he did a good job. I was so proud of him. Most adults speak in english in the shul. He has really gained so much since he started going to his tutor. Of course he is the same old Yoni in which he doesnt know what is going on in class at all times. Even the English class. But Ein baya. He is also becoming quite a Ping Pong player. He beat a nevei student on shabbos and he beat me twice already. I have to almost play at 100% to beat him.
Maybe Im just not that good… possible I guess.
Well, thats that for the kids update.
Gotta run,
U.D.
20 WAYS TO DEAL WITH INSANITY (pressure at work):
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars to see if they Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with That.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It “In.”
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write “For Smuggling Diamonds”
7. Finish All Your sentences with “In Accordance With The Prophecy.”
8. Don’t use any punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a diet water whenever you go out to eat with a serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is “To Go.”
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don’t Rhyme
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can’t Attend Their Party Because You’re Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream “I Won!, I Won!”
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling “Run For Your Lives, They’re Loose!!”
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. “Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.”
20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity…….
Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.
Its Called therapy.
Comment by Rabbi Pollack — December 12, 2005 @ 2:37 pm