tired...but happy

the sukkot holidays are almost over and until today we haven't done much with the kids. however, i can truly say that we've now made up for that.


we started the morning off with a long overdue visit with ronit and her boys, which even included a bit of zumba...and then went off home to make some salads and get ready for a barbeque with friends.

we spent the afternoon with friends in the ashkelon national park, barbequing, eating and playing. and if the amount of dirt your kids bring home with them equals the amount of fun they had you can be sure that mine had a brilliant afternoon! and so did i [even though my friends are thirty-somethings that have been known to gripe about their kids every now and again ;-) ].

after the park we went home and scrubbed the kids and then went out again. this time to visit friends in their sukkah. we went to our friends, the glams, who had a huge family dinner in their parent's sukkah (when you have 10 kids and almost all of them have few kids of their own, well, you can just imagine how big their intimate family gatherings are), i always love visiting them on these occasions, it's always joyful and noisy, and i feel a little sad that we don't have such a big family, but grateful to be invited into theirs.

their mom, who is used to cooking for the troops, made a wonderful meal, as usual. we had just spent the entire afternoon eating, so we couldn't eat much, but we were given a 'doggy bag' to take home with us, so we'll enjoy that tomorrow.

after dinner inbal got everyone dancing, and then she started the karaoke....we had a lovely evening with all of them, the girls had fun playing with their friends and singing and ben fell asleep not long after we got there....the little guy had been up since around five this morning, so this wasn't surprising.

i'm rather tired myself, so i think i'll be off to bed.

here's hoping that ben is so tired from his long day that he'll sleep until seven tomorrow!!!

apology

i've been putting this off for a while now. you see, like most people, i'm not always really sure how to apologize. you probably know what i mean. actually, at the beginning of the school year, just before the jewish holidays, i was helping the girls with their homework and for jewish studies they had to answer questions on the subject of forgiving – one of the questions was whether, if you've waited for a long time after something (bad) has happened between you and a friend, should you still ask for forgiveness, or should you just ignore whatever happened and carry on as though everything is good, because it's been so long that it doesn't matter anymore (or something like that).

this long introduction is just my way of getting myself psyched to apologize...so here goes....

dear blog, you know how much i love you, right? we've been together for a few years now and even though sometimes i don't pay enough attention to you for a while, i always come back. i know that i promised that this time it would be different, that i wouldn't do that anymore, but i have been very, very busy for the past few months – and i just haven't had the time to sit down and give you the attention that you need. i apologize for that!!!

and before you ask...i know that you know about my relationship with fb...but, let me explain...it's a completely different kind of relationship. he doesn't expect much of my time and attention, i can just pop over for a quick visit, tell him what's been going on with me, in a nutshell, and maybe about the stuff that interests me, and then i'm off again. so, please, don't get hurt, it's just not the quality time that we enjoy together.

i know i've said it before, but i promise to try to devote more time to you. i really enjoy what we have together. i do.