This week has been busy and crazy both weather wise and life wise. On Shabbos it was nice enough to get all the kids to the park. Yeah!!!! Since then the weather has gone downhill and we are now back to freezing our buns off! Although thankfully it is only raining not snowing. Well due to the lovely weather everyone is getting cabin fever. It seems that even if it is nice and we dont make it out, everyone is OK. Probably because they can still play on the merpesset(deck) out back. But when it rains the kids all get a little nutty. This is where the keyboard story comes in. Yesterday morning I was on the computer in the bedroom when the phone rang. I was going to ignore it, but after listening to the answering machine I discovered that I needed to answer the phone. Well one phone call led to another right behind it. Meanwhile Curly and Mo were still in the bedroom unbeknownst to me. When I looked back to check on them, what should my wondering see, but two tiny babies gleefully pulling everysingle key off the laptop keyboard. I wanted to pass out and barf all at the same time and I am pretty sure that the shriek I let out was heard by the people in the neighboring town over! I sent S over to get D to see what damage control could be done and I am grateful to say that we were able to replace almost all the keys. Some dont work quite right and eventually we are probably going to have to cough up $100 to replace the keyboard, but thankfully we can get by for now.
As if that wasnt enough excitement for oneday, I took S with me to check out an apartment in an area outside the city in a place called Brechfeld in Moddiin Elite. It is about an hour by bus from Jerusalem. So off S and I go running to catch the bus. This means catching one in the neighborhood to get where we need to catch the bus the Brechfeld. Fortunately we caught the first bus on time but of course missed the second to Brechfeld by minutes. Grrrr.....but OK even if we catch the 2nd one 45min. later we should still make our apointment on time. In theory.... About 3 minuted before the next bus is due to arrive we had a total Jerusalem, Israeli experience. We are standing at the bus when in Hebrew a police officer starts moving everyone down the street. So of course I am with it and know something is up, but I want to know more details so I ask for the english version. Answer, there is a suspicious object in the area and they are moving everyone down the street. We go to the end of the block and of course silly me I am thinking the bus is still going to come down the street, it will just stop further down. But No.......of course not, they are closing the whole street! OK no problem I think to myself, they will get rid of this thing and then we will get the bus a few minutes late. Wrong again. They did two controlled explosions of the mysterious objects as S andn I about 100 other people stood around watching. It was actually fascinating and the first one they did, I could really feel it! It really surprised me. Were the mystery items really bombs? I doubt it. It looked like someone for got their bags. I could see them lifting things out with a stick type thing and it looked clothes and a plastic bag. (Besides this really is not so uncommon, we know someone who had a personal experience with this. One of our friends have a child who left his school bag in the park. It was a smaller town than Jerusalem and a neighborhood park so the police went dutifully from door to door trying to figure out if the bag belonged to anyone. By the time the parents figured out what was going on and what the question was and that the bag belonged to them, it was too late and one little back pack belonging to a 4 year old was blown to smitherines. Thus sparing the good people of the city from the dangers of a 4 year old's school bag.) So anyway, back to our story...45min. later they finally re-open the street. Did the bus come? NO! The street was closed so long that the bus was rerouted and we had to wait for another one. During this half an hour wait it started to get cloudy, then it proceeded to rain and then hail! Fortunately we managed to stay dry under the bus shelter, but we were sure cold! We did finally make it to our apt. to see the apt. and it was worth the trip but we are still debating the neighborhood. I wont go into it here as it would take to long and be too confusing to explain. When we finally land I will let everyone know where we are. Suffice to say that yesterday was a long, strange day.
Today the cabin fever continued so after a whole day of being ready to strangle my kids I finally hauled everyone to the park at 5:30pm in the freezing cold so they could sit in the wet sand for a half an hour and dig in the dirt until it got dark. Am I a good mommy or what?! And the scary thing is, it is only Tuesday! If this keeps up I am going to need a lot of tea and lot of chocolate to get through the week!
Hope your week is going better than mine!
2 comments:
OMG! Joci did the same thing to MY keyboard! I now have a cordless one that attaches though the USB plugin! LOL Thank God for that invention let me tell you. The ones that would not attach on I actually had to poke at the little tupe thing over and over until it would work! It was amess, finally JOse took pity on me one day and drug me to the store to choose! $34 later I was a MUCH happier typer!
BTW- your bag story cracked me up. Sad but the way you told it had me snickering!
I dreamt earlier this week that someone pulled all the keys off my keyboard.
I couldn't figure out where that came from, but now I remember I had started to read your entry and got interrupted. (Surprise surprise)
Weird brain.
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