I found this over at Bat Aliyah's blog. Maybe others will find it helpful. Or at the least, interesting, to read how something like banking is done in another country.
Bat Aliyah: How To Bank (More) Like An Israeli: There are many surprises (and yes, some horror stories) for former Americans who make aliyah and open a bank account in Israel. For exam...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Recap
So our seder was short and to the point. DH went to shul early Friday evening and we got the seder underway at the earliest permitted time (7:23 in Rehovot). We were done by 10 pm.
Friday morning I started the cooking around 7:30 and was done by 1:30 and since we only had one guest (my Mom) huge quantities of each dish weren't necessary so I was more able to enjoy what I was doing - even though cooking isn't my "thing" - rather than kill myself cooking right up to candle lighting. It really was in the realm of enjoyable and manageable.
My Mom hadn't been well and wasn't sure until the last minute whether she'd feel up to coming but she did. She was our only guest which also helped us keep it short and sweet. The more people, the more chaotic it tends to be. Y and E were good but I spent a lot of time in the living room just listening to DH read from the Haggadah while playing with E. You know 3 year olds and attention spans......Both kids were awake until the end. In fact, E had napped so he was bouncing around LONG after we'd finished and washed up the dishes. He didn't go down until 11:30 pm!
After we'd finished, we all were recalling many a seder we'd attended before moving to Israel and wondering HOW on EARTH families managed to schlepp out the story telling until 2, 3 and even 4 a.m. HOW is it possible? That is just pure torture, IMO. A read of the Haggadah really doesn't take THAT long. <head shaking> Not only that, those who don't live here have to conduct TWO seders one night after the next. Reason #3, 756, 872 to move to Israel, if you ask me.
The next day after going to shul in the morning and a quick, light lunch, I took the kids to a nice park a 5 minute walk from us for a couple of hours so DH could nap. My Mom came with. She and I sat on a bench on the side and read while the kids amused themselves on the equipment and in the sand. Y ended up getting her foot bitten by some microscopic creature of some sort in the sand. We never saw what it was and there was no bite or sting mark but it was painful and her foot swelled up and was red and hot for the next three days and very very itchy. Just like when she gets a mosquito bite. That kinda ended the stint in the park so we packed up and went home.
DH then took over with the kids and had them back out in the park next to our building for the rest of the afternoon while I napped. This way we keep E going all day and don't allow him to nap so by evening he's exhausted and we don't have any battles over bedtime.
Sunday I worked a full day.
Monday I took the kids and popped into the bead store in Rishon to get some beads for a bracelet I want to make. Then I took them to see the movie The Lorax. Excellent movie! I like the ecological message of it. We have and love the book as well. The kids were good through the movie. We came home after the movie to pick up DH and went off to the Passover festival on Rabbi Carlebach's moshav. Some friends of mine had gone in previous years and somehow I'd always missed the boat so I wanted to go check it out this year. I am so in love with this moshav. I have been there on quite a few other occasions and every time I go I never want to leave. I love the setting (it's very rural), I love how laid back the people are - lots of tofu and brown rice eating, organic eating, tree hugging ex-hippies - I love that everyone there speaks English, I love that their shul is a gigantic army tent, I love the earthy smell of the place. (I grew up a 30 minute drive from Santa Cruz, CA in the 1970s. Nuff said. That should tell you why this place feels so much like I've come home.)
They had activities for the kids (helium balloons, face painting, hair braiding, etc.), they had a whole line-up of different bands, they had food for sale, they had various artists selling their wares (clothing, ceramics, jewelry, aromatherapy oils, etc.). Something for everyone. There were a lot of people there of all ages and it was nice to see such a variety of religious types. My friend, Pesha, was there with her family and we bumped into a mutual friend with her husband and we saw a few other Rehovot families that we know less well but we connected with them too.
Yesterday we got a late start but around 11:30 I took the kids to a place called Chava's Farm. It's about a 30 minute drive south of us. I'd heard a few people recommend it and it wasn't hugely expensive. The kids and I had a blast. So nice to be somewhere so low-tech. It's like a kiddie zoo - gazelles and ostriches and a bull and donkey rides for the kids and a petting corner with baby chicks and ducks and mice and hamsters and guinea pigs and turtles and inflatable trampolines and a goat milking demonstration and monkeys and giant tortoises and a tractor ride to visit the nearby kibbutz's cow shed, etc. It was truly a place to spend the day. People in the know bring blankets and a picnic lunch and make a day of it. They had huge grassy expanses with covered picnic areas with chairs and tables. Really nice. We were there until 5 pm. As soon as we got in the car to go home, E yawned and told me he was tired and CRASHED. If he'd have been standing, you'd have heard him fall flat on his face. As soon as we got home I dumped him in bed and he slept through the night!!
Today I'm at work for the whole day and - as you can see - getting SO much work done. LOL. There are only about 4 other employees here today. Not sure if I'm going to have the car tonight or what to do with the kids after work if I do. I had wanted to get to the beach but ran out of time.
And tomorrow's erev chag and since we're having only a gazillion guests (mil and DH's two married kids and 2 grandkids), the madness will begin once again tomorrow morning with THE COOKING. O joy!
I have lots of pics to post from the past 2 days but put my camera's battery in to charge last night and of course forgot it at home this morning so....pics to follow.
Friday morning I started the cooking around 7:30 and was done by 1:30 and since we only had one guest (my Mom) huge quantities of each dish weren't necessary so I was more able to enjoy what I was doing - even though cooking isn't my "thing" - rather than kill myself cooking right up to candle lighting. It really was in the realm of enjoyable and manageable.
My Mom hadn't been well and wasn't sure until the last minute whether she'd feel up to coming but she did. She was our only guest which also helped us keep it short and sweet. The more people, the more chaotic it tends to be. Y and E were good but I spent a lot of time in the living room just listening to DH read from the Haggadah while playing with E. You know 3 year olds and attention spans......Both kids were awake until the end. In fact, E had napped so he was bouncing around LONG after we'd finished and washed up the dishes. He didn't go down until 11:30 pm!
After we'd finished, we all were recalling many a seder we'd attended before moving to Israel and wondering HOW on EARTH families managed to schlepp out the story telling until 2, 3 and even 4 a.m. HOW is it possible? That is just pure torture, IMO. A read of the Haggadah really doesn't take THAT long. <head shaking> Not only that, those who don't live here have to conduct TWO seders one night after the next. Reason #3, 756, 872 to move to Israel, if you ask me.
The next day after going to shul in the morning and a quick, light lunch, I took the kids to a nice park a 5 minute walk from us for a couple of hours so DH could nap. My Mom came with. She and I sat on a bench on the side and read while the kids amused themselves on the equipment and in the sand. Y ended up getting her foot bitten by some microscopic creature of some sort in the sand. We never saw what it was and there was no bite or sting mark but it was painful and her foot swelled up and was red and hot for the next three days and very very itchy. Just like when she gets a mosquito bite. That kinda ended the stint in the park so we packed up and went home.
DH then took over with the kids and had them back out in the park next to our building for the rest of the afternoon while I napped. This way we keep E going all day and don't allow him to nap so by evening he's exhausted and we don't have any battles over bedtime.
Sunday I worked a full day.
Monday I took the kids and popped into the bead store in Rishon to get some beads for a bracelet I want to make. Then I took them to see the movie The Lorax. Excellent movie! I like the ecological message of it. We have and love the book as well. The kids were good through the movie. We came home after the movie to pick up DH and went off to the Passover festival on Rabbi Carlebach's moshav. Some friends of mine had gone in previous years and somehow I'd always missed the boat so I wanted to go check it out this year. I am so in love with this moshav. I have been there on quite a few other occasions and every time I go I never want to leave. I love the setting (it's very rural), I love how laid back the people are - lots of tofu and brown rice eating, organic eating, tree hugging ex-hippies - I love that everyone there speaks English, I love that their shul is a gigantic army tent, I love the earthy smell of the place. (I grew up a 30 minute drive from Santa Cruz, CA in the 1970s. Nuff said. That should tell you why this place feels so much like I've come home.)
They had activities for the kids (helium balloons, face painting, hair braiding, etc.), they had a whole line-up of different bands, they had food for sale, they had various artists selling their wares (clothing, ceramics, jewelry, aromatherapy oils, etc.). Something for everyone. There were a lot of people there of all ages and it was nice to see such a variety of religious types. My friend, Pesha, was there with her family and we bumped into a mutual friend with her husband and we saw a few other Rehovot families that we know less well but we connected with them too.
Yesterday we got a late start but around 11:30 I took the kids to a place called Chava's Farm. It's about a 30 minute drive south of us. I'd heard a few people recommend it and it wasn't hugely expensive. The kids and I had a blast. So nice to be somewhere so low-tech. It's like a kiddie zoo - gazelles and ostriches and a bull and donkey rides for the kids and a petting corner with baby chicks and ducks and mice and hamsters and guinea pigs and turtles and inflatable trampolines and a goat milking demonstration and monkeys and giant tortoises and a tractor ride to visit the nearby kibbutz's cow shed, etc. It was truly a place to spend the day. People in the know bring blankets and a picnic lunch and make a day of it. They had huge grassy expanses with covered picnic areas with chairs and tables. Really nice. We were there until 5 pm. As soon as we got in the car to go home, E yawned and told me he was tired and CRASHED. If he'd have been standing, you'd have heard him fall flat on his face. As soon as we got home I dumped him in bed and he slept through the night!!
Today I'm at work for the whole day and - as you can see - getting SO much work done. LOL. There are only about 4 other employees here today. Not sure if I'm going to have the car tonight or what to do with the kids after work if I do. I had wanted to get to the beach but ran out of time.
And tomorrow's erev chag and since we're having only a gazillion guests (mil and DH's two married kids and 2 grandkids), the madness will begin once again tomorrow morning with THE COOKING. O joy!
I have lots of pics to post from the past 2 days but put my camera's battery in to charge last night and of course forgot it at home this morning so....pics to follow.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Passover Countdown
Now I'm really starting to feel the pre-Seder night pressure start to build. I'm sitting at work making lists of things I need to do, places to go, things to buy. Luckily, work is very quiet for me again and I have time to give some thought to these things. I'm also pacing myself with the remaining cleaning that still needs doing and bargaining with DH, "I'll clean this if you clean that." LOL.
I was wondering what we can do this year, now that E is three and understands a little more than last year, to make the Seder more real for them. When Y was younger, DH and I went into our bedroom at one point in the telling of the story and dressed up as if we'd just left Egypt. Something along these lines.
DH used a broom handle as a walking stick. At the time, we had a sheep-sized dog with white, wooly fur and we used him as our "sheep". All present thought it was funny and clever.
We could do a repeat of this but I was wondering what ideas others have come up with and quickly Googled "passover seder tips". Here's a short list of sites that had some cute ideas:
http://www.aish.com/h/pes/f/g/48967161.html
http://knowledgehound.com/topics/passover.htm
http://sedersforyou.tripod.com/
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder/Making_the_Seder_Memorable.shtml
http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=901
http://www.threejews.net/2010/03/innovative-passover-seder-ideas.html
http://www.matankids.org/2012/02/29/ideas-for-an-interactive-passover-seder/
http://www.jr.co.il/humor/passover.htm
http://holidays.juda.com/passover-songs.shtml
http://www.mazornet.com/holidays/passover/funnysongs.htm
Chag Sameach everyone!
I was wondering what we can do this year, now that E is three and understands a little more than last year, to make the Seder more real for them. When Y was younger, DH and I went into our bedroom at one point in the telling of the story and dressed up as if we'd just left Egypt. Something along these lines.
DH used a broom handle as a walking stick. At the time, we had a sheep-sized dog with white, wooly fur and we used him as our "sheep". All present thought it was funny and clever.
We could do a repeat of this but I was wondering what ideas others have come up with and quickly Googled "passover seder tips". Here's a short list of sites that had some cute ideas:
http://www.aish.com/h/pes/f/g/48967161.html
http://knowledgehound.com/topics/passover.htm
http://sedersforyou.tripod.com/
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Passover/The_Seder/Making_the_Seder_Memorable.shtml
http://www.jewishfederations.org/page.aspx?id=901
http://www.threejews.net/2010/03/innovative-passover-seder-ideas.html
http://www.matankids.org/2012/02/29/ideas-for-an-interactive-passover-seder/
http://www.jr.co.il/humor/passover.htm
http://holidays.juda.com/passover-songs.shtml
http://www.mazornet.com/holidays/passover/funnysongs.htm
Chag Sameach everyone!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Things and Pics
It's seems like ages since I last wrote. Life just seems to get away from me sometimes. Let's see. What's been going on?
Pesach (Passover) is looming. I'm very proud of myself because one evening last week, T and I cleaned the shelves of all the upper kitchen cabinets. Not a small job. This evening I hope to get the lower drawers and cabinets cleaned out with her help. I think this is the earliest I've ever started Pesach cleaning! I also need to make the menu and do the food shopping soon in the hopes of beating the crowds. It looks like just my Mom will be joining us this year for the Seder. DH's married kids and mother all asked to come for Chag Sheini (last day) so that's going to be more of a strain for me than the seder itself.
For my Mom's birthday at the beginning of this month, I made her a beautiful Swarovski bracelet which was time consuming to make and not cheap. She wore it for an hour and managed to lose it! Very bummed about that. I told her I'd make her another one as soon as I can.
T is due to start taking her math "matkonot" tests in school starting right after Passover. These tests are every few days over the course of a month. Math has always been her bug-a-boo subject. I told her I do NOT want her attempting to study for these tests without a private teacher to guide her/help her study. The father of E's best friend in gan is a high school math teacher and the family lives down the block from us. I know the father tutors students. A lovely, lovely man. I spoke to him yesterday about possibly tutoring T in preparation for these tests. He asked if she needs teaching - in which case he wouldn't have time to take her on - or just practice. I told him I thought she needed teaching. He said to send her over to their house last night at 9 pm so he could talk to her and draw his own conclusions. T was there until 10:15. I spoke to the father, Ronen, after she got back. He said she definitely needs teaching. The way he put it was "her head works, the math doesn't". He teaches math in three local high schools and said in every class he's ever taught he's had 2-3 students like T. After orinigally saying he didn't have time to teach her, he said he would tutor her but that I needed to speak to the school's counsellor and see if the school would be willing to let T take the "Moed B" (a 2nd test for those who didn't pass the first one) in July which will allow T more time for lessons with Ronen to bring her up to speed. I spoke to the counsellor and she agreed without hesitation. She didn't even blink at my request which was a HUGE relief. So it looks like it's a green light for weekly lessons for T until July.
We are potty training E. Again. A few months ago he was half trained (peepee) but I got tired of washing poop out of his pants 4 times a day. We figured he wasn't ready yet so put him back in diapers. Now the weather's a tad warmer and Passover vacation is coming up where I'll be off work a lot more and can deal with him so starting last Shabbat we've foregone the diapers - cold turkey. Even at night. We've covered the couch and rolled up the carpets. Geesh! It's like housebreaking a dog.
Last Monday they finally moved me into my new office at work. I'm in love! Small, cute, compact office with two HUGE windows. You almost need sunglasses in here. I now have a door, too, so most days I've got baroque classical music playing softly in the background or streaming nature sounds (burbling creek and forest birds cheeping - I'm always looking for ways to bring the outdoors inside....). So many people have told me my office is the nicest. I've had repeat visitors of other employees who just walk in and want to go ooooo and ahhhhh. O yeah! Lots of atmos in here! I went to the nursery the evening before they moved me over and treated myself to a really pretty plant for the office. I hope I don't kill it.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. A spring storm. It's been a very wet winter with lots of snow up north so the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) is filling up nicely. I hope the weather over Pesach vacation will be decent. I'm working 2 full days during chol hamoed and I'm off the rest. I hope to do lots of outdoorsy stuff with the kids - maybe take them camping for one night on the beach near here. I really don't feel like being on the roads with the rest of the country so we'll probably just stick close to home.
Here are a bunch of misc pics that I found on my camera:
Pesach (Passover) is looming. I'm very proud of myself because one evening last week, T and I cleaned the shelves of all the upper kitchen cabinets. Not a small job. This evening I hope to get the lower drawers and cabinets cleaned out with her help. I think this is the earliest I've ever started Pesach cleaning! I also need to make the menu and do the food shopping soon in the hopes of beating the crowds. It looks like just my Mom will be joining us this year for the Seder. DH's married kids and mother all asked to come for Chag Sheini (last day) so that's going to be more of a strain for me than the seder itself.
For my Mom's birthday at the beginning of this month, I made her a beautiful Swarovski bracelet which was time consuming to make and not cheap. She wore it for an hour and managed to lose it! Very bummed about that. I told her I'd make her another one as soon as I can.
T is due to start taking her math "matkonot" tests in school starting right after Passover. These tests are every few days over the course of a month. Math has always been her bug-a-boo subject. I told her I do NOT want her attempting to study for these tests without a private teacher to guide her/help her study. The father of E's best friend in gan is a high school math teacher and the family lives down the block from us. I know the father tutors students. A lovely, lovely man. I spoke to him yesterday about possibly tutoring T in preparation for these tests. He asked if she needs teaching - in which case he wouldn't have time to take her on - or just practice. I told him I thought she needed teaching. He said to send her over to their house last night at 9 pm so he could talk to her and draw his own conclusions. T was there until 10:15. I spoke to the father, Ronen, after she got back. He said she definitely needs teaching. The way he put it was "her head works, the math doesn't". He teaches math in three local high schools and said in every class he's ever taught he's had 2-3 students like T. After orinigally saying he didn't have time to teach her, he said he would tutor her but that I needed to speak to the school's counsellor and see if the school would be willing to let T take the "Moed B" (a 2nd test for those who didn't pass the first one) in July which will allow T more time for lessons with Ronen to bring her up to speed. I spoke to the counsellor and she agreed without hesitation. She didn't even blink at my request which was a HUGE relief. So it looks like it's a green light for weekly lessons for T until July.
We are potty training E. Again. A few months ago he was half trained (peepee) but I got tired of washing poop out of his pants 4 times a day. We figured he wasn't ready yet so put him back in diapers. Now the weather's a tad warmer and Passover vacation is coming up where I'll be off work a lot more and can deal with him so starting last Shabbat we've foregone the diapers - cold turkey. Even at night. We've covered the couch and rolled up the carpets. Geesh! It's like housebreaking a dog.
Last Monday they finally moved me into my new office at work. I'm in love! Small, cute, compact office with two HUGE windows. You almost need sunglasses in here. I now have a door, too, so most days I've got baroque classical music playing softly in the background or streaming nature sounds (burbling creek and forest birds cheeping - I'm always looking for ways to bring the outdoors inside....). So many people have told me my office is the nicest. I've had repeat visitors of other employees who just walk in and want to go ooooo and ahhhhh. O yeah! Lots of atmos in here! I went to the nursery the evening before they moved me over and treated myself to a really pretty plant for the office. I hope I don't kill it.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. A spring storm. It's been a very wet winter with lots of snow up north so the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) is filling up nicely. I hope the weather over Pesach vacation will be decent. I'm working 2 full days during chol hamoed and I'm off the rest. I hope to do lots of outdoorsy stuff with the kids - maybe take them camping for one night on the beach near here. I really don't feel like being on the roads with the rest of the country so we'll probably just stick close to home.
Here are a bunch of misc pics that I found on my camera:
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| Me on Purim. I wore this hat and nose to work the day before Purim. The CEO loved it and came into my office a few times for 2nd and 3rd looks. |
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| E hiding the the kitchen garbage can's insert. |
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| A lemon! |
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| The start of the Rehovot Walk a few Fridays ago. |
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| The fields on the eastern edge of Rehovot. |
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| A tower used in the early days of the State of Israel as a lookout point to protect Rehovot from the surrounding Arabs. |
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| DH. |
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| Feasting on strawberries! |
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| And THAT....believe it or not....is the backside of T. |
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| AWWW. Sweet boychik. |
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Holidays
The girls went to school today dressed up for Purim. All the schools are having their Purim parties today and then everyone's off school until Sunday. Long weekend.
Here's my Minnie Mouse....
Here's my Minnie Mouse....
And here's my Hawaiian girl....
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sunshine
After nearly a full week of rain, thank G-d, today is the first day we've seen the sun for more than a few minutes at a time and we are promised warmer than normal temps this week. Maybe I will be able to catch up on the laundry and not have to use the dryer so much. The Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) is filling up nicely after being at dangerously low levels for years. We still have a long way to go before we can say it's full but still. We're headed in the right direction.
DH and Y got back from the UK about 2 weeks ago. 2 days after they got back, S and I agreed on my going to see MY family (and meet the sister who I've never met) in October for two weeks BY MYSELF. Hurrah! So I have that to look forward to. I also want to see my Dad while I'm there and am trying to decide whether to drive or fly down to CA to see him or have him come up to WA where I'll be which probably makes more sense.
Work is still deathly quiet and boring for me. If they don't mind, I don't mind. I can keep myself occupied. There are just so many more productive things I could be doing at home.
Speaking of which, I finished this bracelet last night which I am giving to my Mom as today is her birthday and we are going to her place tonight with pizza for a small party.
Loooooooooooong skinnnnnnnnnnny picture!
And I've branched out and last night tried my hand at these glass tile necklaces which I am sending to my two neices for their birthdays.
DH and Y got back from the UK about 2 weeks ago. 2 days after they got back, S and I agreed on my going to see MY family (and meet the sister who I've never met) in October for two weeks BY MYSELF. Hurrah! So I have that to look forward to. I also want to see my Dad while I'm there and am trying to decide whether to drive or fly down to CA to see him or have him come up to WA where I'll be which probably makes more sense.
Work is still deathly quiet and boring for me. If they don't mind, I don't mind. I can keep myself occupied. There are just so many more productive things I could be doing at home.
Speaking of which, I finished this bracelet last night which I am giving to my Mom as today is her birthday and we are going to her place tonight with pizza for a small party.
And I've branched out and last night tried my hand at these glass tile necklaces which I am sending to my two neices for their birthdays.
I would like to try to sell some of the jewelry I'm making and have opened a Facebook page where I post pics and details about every piece I've made: https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Avigayils-Baubles/185513491557176. I have lots of ideas for more designs that I want to try so keep checking back.
Purim starts this week on Wednesday night. There has been a lot of lead-up to it in the kids' schools and E's gan. One day E came home like this:
I think the gannenet (daycare teacher) used green permanent marker to make those green circles around his eyes. It didn't really come off completely in the bath that night and the next morning he woke up with a green, shmeary face.
Another day he came home like this:
I plan to come to work on Wednesday with some sort of silly hat or something to get people into the spirit. E had a penguin costume already that DH's older son had bought for him last year and which was miles too big so E is wearing it this year.
I took the girls last night to buy costumes. Y is going as Minnie Mouse and T as a Hawaiian girl. Pics will follow. I spent 130 NIS ($34) for both girls and count myself lucky that I got off so cheaply. What they charge for costumes is shocking!
Purim being upon us means that Pesach is around the corner and at lunch today we were talking about it and it was pointed out to me that Pesach begins in exactly a month and that it starts on a Friday night. O joy! Extra complicated from a family point of view for us.......
Monday, February 20, 2012
Misc. Pics 'n Stuff
DH and Y are coming back from the UK today. I popped DH a text message first thing this morning about the death of my camera and he said they are just about to head out the door for the airport and he will see what he can do about picking up a new camera for me in duty free that is compatible with the new battery I just bought! So....... finger's crossed.
I was thinking that I'd better offload all of the pics from my old camera before it won't let me do even that. And I came across a whole smattering of pictures that I'd forgotten were even on it.
Follows a real mish-mash of stuff that I thought was photo-worthy........
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| Israeli milk. It's sold in bags. Just another one of "those things" you have to get used to when moving to another country. You put it in one of these milk pitchers, snip the corner of the bag and it pours beautifully. You CAN buy "real" milk i.e. cartons - at nearly twice the price. |
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| T and I were sitting in the bus station in Rehovot not long ago waiting for a bus and we saw this elderly woman walking through the station dragging 12 boxes on "leashes". What are they? Gas masks! We got on the same bus as she did and we heard someone else commenting about how many she had. She said she'd picked them up for her and her family and a neighbor too. |
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| Taken way back during Chanukkah. Some people place the menorah outside their homes or apartment buildings in these glass, aquarium-like boxes because we are supposed to "advertise" the miracle of Chanukkah. I thought it was so pretty sitting outside this apartment building. |
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| Me. On a rare good hair + makeup day. Sorry about the boring background though. Taken at work. |
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| Guess who? |
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| The kidlets in the park next to our building. Doing the "Spider". |
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| Taken last Thursday on my way to IKEA. You can see the rain storm rolling in. Look at those BLACK clouds. O MY! |
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| More black clouds! (In case you're wondering, yes, I did snap this while driving. I know I know. Bad, bad me.) |
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| Here comes the rain. Driving straight into it! |
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| Once we got on the open freeway, it was pelting down. I was creeping along. I could see the white lane markings and tail lights of other cars but not much else. Didn't last long though. |
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| I, inexplicably, woke "too" early this morning at 5:10 am and couldn't go back to sleep. But there are advantages to that. I got to see the sun come up and snapped this through our dining room door that leads out onto our postage-stamp size balcony. |
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| T and I have been shopping for curtains for the 2 windows in her room. We can't find anything ready-made that we like. The styles here! UGH! Vomit! And to have curtains made is for rich people. So I had a brainwave and schlepped T down the block to the remnant fabric store and we both spotted a fabric we loved immediately. I told her I would attempt to make her some simple curtains or die trying. If it works, we've saved a bundle. If not, we won't be out a fortune. This is the fabric we chose. We thought we wanted sheer fabric but surprisingly, this isn't. It's a thicker, stiffer cotton. |
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| My boychik! Happy little face...... |
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