OK so yesterday I posted as day 3, guess with my new schedule I am getting ahead of myself. It has been re-posted as day 2. Today was Independence Day and Israel is 63 years old. In a little country like Israel with lots of opinions, this is a conflicting day. Obviously there are many Arabs who do not celebrate this day, I am not sure about those who follow the New Testament and attend church. I don't know anyone here who does that. But even amongst the Israeli Jews there is conflict. Sounds crazy? Not really. After WWII and the Jews started arriving there was a campaign of sorts to prevent the religious Jews from entering Israel or once they arrived to essentially make it impossible for them to remain religious. The goal to secularize everyone or at least bring them down to a reform level. This is really a very minor nutshell, it is much more complex than this, but I am summarizing. On the other hand, without the establishment of Israel there would not be an opportunity for Jews world wide to move here. Today we also benefit from the fact that we can move to Judea and Samaria (The West Bank) and we have control over the Western Wall and Hevron. Hevron is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives are buried. It is also said that this is where Adam and Chava (Eve) are buried. It is really an amazing place. Even just architecturally. Suffice to say that about 3/4 of the Jewish population observes this day by participating in Israel's national sport, barbecuing, while about 1/4 carry on as normal. That would include my boys who go to private school. I really wanted to pull them out, but D's argument was that, school is in session and they will miss out if we are gone. So responsibility to education won and in away, learning about our past through Torah and the fact that our kids have the freedom to learn in Jewish schools in Israel is not a bad way to acknowledge our 63rd birthday either. M on the other hand is enrolled in public school and had the day off........
Which leads me into a re-cap of today's attempt to stay on track. I have to say looking back, I did pretty good. We got a late start because S did not have school bus due to the holiday. So I thought, yeah! Sleep in time! Yes, but it put us back more than we should have been... both boys got to school late. Not good. But on the other hand, I made good time in getting everyone dropped off and was home by 9:30am. M did OK entertaining herself once I got a few projects going. Fortunately we have stock piled arts and crafts supplies. Pens, crayons, water colors, we even have a chalk kit from crayola that lets us make our own chalk. It is the cat's meow for her! So I did manage to get some work in. I actually got a couple of hours in, so not bad. My goal per day is 3-4, so 2 is about half way there. For those of you who work full time, I know this sounds wimpy. I used to work those hours too. Working from home is a different deal and I not only have to juggle work responsibility but also home responsibility too and it is very distracting to try and do one and not the other. Anyhow, so for me not bad. I also managed to get caught up on almost ALL the laundry! Considering the back log we have had from the build up from Passover, multiple Shabbos guests, so I am always washing extra sheets, the lice ordeal and the washer being on fritz, not to mention life in general, we have been looking a little crazy in that department. However, we can now see our floor again and it is great! I also managed to get caught up on a good amount of dishes. Another area that tends to lag due to the fact that I AM the dishwasher. No fancy electric machine for us! And I got the kids to clean up their mess, and they were almost in bed on time and it is only 9:45p. plus I also got an article read for work. All in all, I am pretty pleased. Tomorrow may be a little crazy. I have to call the bank first thing in the AM and I need to run and get rolls for the kids since I forgot to get flour and the stores were closed today. But I am thinking positive that all will work out in the end!
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