Thelma and Louise
April 10, 2006well, it was the ladies turn to fly.
Penina dragged Sara Baila to Tel aviv. She HAD to get out.. shopping or something. They took the train at 1:47 and came back at around 10. Not sure why Penina had to get out. I was the one that was working. All she had to do was take care of 4 kids, prepare meals, clean, deal with the arab workers, shop, cook for shabbos, deal with tutors, teachers, chuggim, get the car cleaned, take the kids to doctors, do laundry by herself. She is practically on vacation here. Well, she had a nice time with Sara B, no visible tatoos or piercings so I guess things went ok. Yesterday Yoni had a tiyul to the Bar Cochba caves sponsored by Nefesh b’nefesh and had some hot dogs by a bonfire. I took moshe, michal, and Tamar to the coffee shop and let them play in the playground while I went shopping in office depot for a printer / fax machine. I have NO idea what the salesguy was talking about. I broke our printer… another casualty to the 110 / 220 volt conversion I think and the fax didn’t work properly. So 800 shekel later (170 dollars) we have a brother multi office center thingee. 220 volts. This is actually an aliya process. The US appliances that you came with start falling apart. Its a huge hassle dealing with convertors, adapters…etc. Also, it costs more to fix these things than it is to buy. The only problem is when we receive faxes in english.. it gets transalated into hebrew. SO we have to have one of the neighbors read it to us.
Speaking about Hebrew, I ran into Yoni’s rav this morning at davening. He is really suprised with Yoni’s hebrew. Poratz. he said. Like a shock. All of a sudden. I see it too. When we learned mishna brurah on shabbos, he knew some words that I’m SURE I didn’t know at ten.. or 20. Although this morning when we tried to tell the repair guys about the constant wet spots in the kitchen ceiling (listening, ba’al habayis?, lol. ) We asked yoni what wet in hebrew is… he didn’t know. Oh well.
Last night was haircut night. A father of someone is Moshe’s class came over to give them. He does this as a side job. Well, Our kids got, I got, Mendy and his son got, another neighbor. Then he went to doovid… every shekel helps. THe only problem is I look horrible (nothing different right? Thanks). I have the side and back at number 1 and the top at number 2. The top of my head will need to be cut 2 months before my sides. Also my beard got a number 1. So I look like my boss in COlumbus. (the guy who bought my a bath and body works gift card… if you catch my drift. Well, In any event, it was nice to help someone out and give him a shtickle parnassa. Penina was the one to hire him and get the neighbors to use him. Speaking about helping, there is a constant knocking at the door for tzedakah. I don’t carry alot of money, and penina doesn’t trust me with the checks so I don’t have alot to give, but its sad to have SO many people that are in need for pesach. In staten Island you get a few. Here I think we had 7 or 8 and that was just in half a day.
LAst night, the boys and I watched a few innings of the Mets game on the computer. It was an early game, so we saw it live. Mets pulled it out in the 9th.
Its very important for kids at this age. Alot of magazines talk about kids at risk. Without a positive influence. Kids are suseptible. Many turn to the dark side and become Yankees fans.
Well, I have to sign off and do some work before I take the boys to Jerusalem. Michal has a gymnastics chug today and Tamar is at gan chayot with the other little animals.
Have a good day,
u.d.
