The house is just looking better and better.  We finished cleaning J's room yesterday and it looks way better.  Of course now there are puzzle pieces everywhere, but it least it's messy rather than dirty.  D also vacuumed B and M's room yesterday and it's nice to think that they can (sort of mostly) keep it clean ( Read more... )

Four days till we leave.  D spent today at home, mostly not working.  I started my day at the Ministry of Interior.  Yes, folks, the game is up - the Israeli government has finally figured out that I'm married and I have kids.  Whoops.  I guess this is what comes of spending longer than three months here.  D went to renew the tourist visa he and ( Read more... )

All of our winter clothes have been packed for a while now, but we're starting to talk about what we're leaving behind and what we have to fit into our meager luggage allowance ( Read more... )

Gramma asked me to buy J a present for his birthday which she would then reimburse me for.  There's a toy store in town and I looked through their range of toys for children J's age.  My primary goal was to find something small.  I ended up getting him a small jar of large plastic beads.  They come in three different shapes and in two different ( Read more... )

I know I haven't gotten around to writing (and posting photos) about our trip, but the last few days have been super busy ( Read more... )

Back in Jerusalem from our big trip up north.  We managed to see quite a lot, and stayed with three sets of friends.  I'll write a nice long post about it (with pics!) in the next few days.  The biggest bit of news, though, is that AK's brother proposed to his partner :-)

D accidentally hit someone on his way to campus Thursday morning.  The person he hit ran out into the street without looking and though D tried to swerve,   the other guy was knocked down and D fell off of his bike.  D was extremely apologetic and the man was very nice about it.  I ended up running out to get some bandages as D's knee was cut in ( Read more... )

It's Sunday again.  Funny how that seems to come around so quickly these days.  Only 4 1/2 weeks till we go back to the UK.  Gulp ( Read more... )

I started a big long post a few days ago but never got around to finishing it and now too much time has gone by and I'm too lazy to try to pick up where I left off.  So (in bullet point):

• J seems to have a stomach bug.  This involved waking up crying in the middle of the night covered in puke.  Luckily he's on the mend, though still not eating much ( Read more... )

• All of this stuff about Thatcher.  Yes, I know she was pretty bad.  But do we have to talk about wanting to piss on her grave?  Seriously?  Maybe we can all try to act like adults here?
• I went looking for bras again today.  Apparently I wear a crazy impossible size.  My breasts are too big for my body (or my body is just too darn small for my ( Read more... )