Shana Tova uMetuka to all Jewish readers, and all others who want to join us in the new year – 5769. And to all others - this is the real New Years Eve. So come on! Grab an apple and some honey, a shofar and a pomegranate and enjoy!
We wish you a happy, sweet, wonderful, great and hundreds of other synonymes to that – year!
We’re now all stuffed with apples, apples again, and honey, and apple & honey cake. *burp* Wow, that was really something!
We have TWO days off now.. two days with only us.. only me, hubby and the kids.. as far as I know no other plans. Only uninvited guests are invited for this time.
-So do you want your coffee with milk?
-No thanks, I want it without milk.
-Sorry I don’t have milk. You’ll have to take it without cream instead.
I need new glasses. I feel like I don’t see anything.. When reading, doing cross stiches etc. I see better without them than with them. – NOT meaning I see well without. I don’t even dare to go to the bathroom in the night without them.. that’s how bad I see. And on long distance they work.. in some way. But reading.. gaah! I feel like an old lady.. needing to read everything in large print. I’ve had these glasses since I was 15. Yep. Not kidding! Why are glasses so expensive?
Hubby is preparing something for me to eat.. I told him that I was both hungry and miserable and he has to get me something. Moahaha! (Usually I make sure he gets something to eat.. and also I’m in pain today.. so it’s kind’a his turn.) I think I’m gonna get a sandwich.. but you never know.
We are now going towards the tishrey holidays(holidays in the month Tishrey). To start with, we have Rosh haShana – the new year starts. So I’d like to say to all of you Happy new year!. That would be tomorrow evening, and we are celebrating until wednesday evening. Next week we have Yom Kippur, and the week after is The feast of Tabernacles.
So.. I just wanted to tell you that within the next few weeks I’m not sure I’ll have the time to keep myself updated with your blogs. Sorry! The holidays are this year in the middle of weeks.. witch means more or less double weekends/double preparations, and the kids are home from kindergarten A LOT. I’ll be busy – in mainly a nice way. We’ll spend more time together as a family. That’s what holidays are for.
I’ll sneek in here when I have some time left over..
Today our little girl had her third birthday. Happy birthday Sweetie!
We started the day with going in to her room at six in the morning, singing happy birthdays songs and giving her the presents in the bed(that’s how we do it). My parents were also here.. and later during the day also uncle Tal came for lunch and cake.. and she got the presents from hubby’s family.
It was a happy day with a lot of presents and she didn’t want to go to sleep in the evening. Usually she wants to sleep .. but she just didn’t want this day to end.
Btw. I think I told you in an earlier post that she wanted a cake with a lamb, and I didn’t know how to do it. It ended up like this:
This was so funny!!.. and an excellent idea to keep the city cleaner.
Dog owners in Petah Tikva (israeli city) will bring the dog’s poo sample to the local vet. The vet will make a DNA analysis of the crap and put that in the dog’s register.
Whenever dog crap is found on the street they can send it in for analysis in order to be able to fine the owner of the dog who crapped -and to treat the ones who scoop up the poo – with pet food cupons and dog toys.
I realized today that I don’t even remember last time I was not hopelessly tired. It must have been years ago! And then I also realized I’m still alive. And that made me happy.
So now I’m just gonna make you a bit sleepy, and then I’m going to sleep.
Last but not least.. some help from our friend Kaa
I don’t know if it’s only me (and dude) or if it’s something common among young parents.. We tend to very easily identify ourselves with the kids in different situations..
When I’m cleaning the kids’ room when they are in kindergarten – and I throw some old and broken toys, and piles of hand craft that you can’t even see what it was meant to be.. funny shaped pieces of papers put together with stickers in different formations, half bus tickets and toilet paper rolls that are all over the place etc.. Oh yes.. with toddlers you have to go through the stuff once in a while because if you kept everything it would take only two months to fill the room all the way up to the ceiling. You save some stuff, and you throw the rest.. and the chance is like 95% that the kids will only see that you cleaned – not that you threw stuff away.
But still.. my only though when I’m doing it is: What if I happen to trow something that they value…? Something that looks like crap to me – but is important to them. When I was a kid I was terrified every time I knew my dad and my sister were going to go through my room. I liked it in some way – because I knew they could get my room in order – in a way that I couldn’t do it myself – because I was only a kid. But I was also afraid they would throw my little piece of thread or a broken sea shell.. or something else that I really valued.. but I knew would look like crap to them. I spent hours of thinking where to hide these things so they wouldn’t find them. (now I have no idea why I didn’t tell them about those precious little things.. stupid little kid.. maybe I didn’t believe they would understand)
I continue to go trough my kids’ stuff.. to throw things.. because I have to. I can’t ask them about everything.. they are only kids – and they would tell me to keep everything. I know that they will probably not even notice.. but what if they do??
This is only one example.. I think like this about everything.. in almost every situation I can picture myself as a kid in the same situation. That doesn’t mean we let them do whatever they want. We are actually quite strict.. but this is how I think.
Is this specificly for us.. or is it normal?
I’ll probably never feel grown up.. not even when I’m 96 and living in an old peoples home and drinking coffee with my great great grandchildren in the afternoon.
Now – I don’t think there is anything bad with this.. rather the reverse. It’s good for the kids to have parents who actually can understand them.. who laugh with them – and not only at them.. Who remembers the scary nightmares.. who remembers how the kids look at their parents.. who can watch Donald Duck and Bob the builder and enjoy.
Today I checked the “holiday schedule” for kindergarten, and found out that during the holidays’ season they will have all together 8 days in Kindergarten – out of four weeks. I’ll not have my peaceful mornings when I can do all the work in the house, and study.. This is actually the bad thing with studying from abroad. (I study in a Swedish University -online) I’ll have to continue to study – like if there were no holidays – but there will be holidays – and I’ll have the kids home. Oh well.. I will manage in some way. I’ll start like NOW to think about things for them to do – so they won’t spend the whole October fighting with eachother.
At October 9th I’ll probably have an online class. October 9th this year is Yom Kippur – the day when the whole country is fasting.. when people don’t drive cars, when it is possible to walk in the middle of the street, when people don’t wear leather, don’t eat, don’t drink(not even water – for 25 hours), don’t have sex. It’s actually the only day of the year when I refuse to even touch a computer. Well the class starts at 6pm, and Yom Kippur ends at 5.50. So I have ten minutes to go! (and to eat before the class.. or I skip it and read it only after…)
And then at christmas – when all my classmates are having holidays, and the teacher have some kind of compassion and give us less to do – then I’ll have the kids in kindergarten, we’ll be back to normal life. (no christmas in this house)
I shouldn’t complain.. I know it’s my choice – and I like to study, and I’m happy I can study for free. (that’s how it is in Sweden) It’s just that it would have been easier if the christians would have adopted the jewish holidays instead of the pagan holidays.
I’ll never forget the day, maybe when we had been married for like a year(?), when hubby asked me a very special question. He asked me, if I could let him be right once in a while – even if he was wrong.. if I could at least pretend he was right, when it came to things that were not that a big deal.
Well.. to be honest I have a problem with that.. it’s hard to let wrong be right.. And how would that make him happier? How would that teach him to really be right?
Still I hear it a lot.. “Why are you always right?” I’m not the one claiming I’m right.. He is! I don’t have a problem with letting him be right when he is right. Fine by me.
But why? Why do women “always” think one step longer.. ?? Why do women think more rational? (of course I’m aware there are exceptions) Honestly.. why?? I’m not referring only to tdyk.. I’m referring to men in general.
Or maybe I’m wrong.. interesting… what would that be like?
Shana Tova uMetuka to all Jewish readers, and all others who want to join us in the new year – 5769. And to all others - this is the real New Years Eve. So come on! Grab an apple and some honey, a shofar and a pomegranate and enjoy!
Today I checked the “holiday schedule” for kindergarten, and found out that during the holidays’ season they will have all together 8 days in Kindergarten – out of four weeks. I’ll not have my peaceful mornings when I can do all the work in the house, and study.. This is actually the bad thing with studying from abroad. (I study in a Swedish University -online) I’ll have to continue to study – like if there were no holidays – but there will be holidays – and I’ll have the kids home. Oh well.. I will manage in some way. I’ll start like NOW to think about things for them to do – so they won’t spend the whole October fighting with eachother. 