tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50546971307973240992012-02-08T13:18:03.317+02:00A fleeting glimpse into our crazy lives - with pictures!Deborah Langerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049262350167851309noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5054697130797324099.post-57825340231279118062008-12-23T00:00:00.000+02:002008-12-23T11:33:36.265+02:00

I just want to wish everybody a very Happy and Healthy Hannukah!! Here are some highlights from the girls' respective gan parties, plus a couple other bonus sister pictures.Hadas and Ayelet are really excellent sisters. Hadas is very tolerant of Ayelet, and Ayelet is very demanding of Hadas, so really it all works out very well.Sisters are very special, I should know. Consider this a shout-out to

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HandprintsSometimes you get discouragedBecause I am so smallAnd always leave my fingerprintsOn furniture and walls.But every day I'm growing -I'll be grown somedayAnd all those tiny handprintsWill surely fade away.So here's a final handprintJust so you can recallExactly how my fingers lookedWhen I was very small.Hadas brought this poem home from her English class (with a tracing of her hands), it

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Well hello everybody. It has been a long time and it has taken a very important person to bring me back – My Dad.Happy Birthday (S)Abba!We hope you are enjoying your weekend away. We love you! And Hadas says she will buy you something with her Canada money.Here all is well. So many events have taken place since I last wrote – Purim, Pessach, and Independence Day. There must have been a million

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Ayelet,It seems like only yesterday, we brought you home from the hospital, and you nestled in my arms. How time has flown and you have flourished! You are a joy on land - traveling by box, or cart... By air in your luxurous berth, or your mummy's arms.. And by sea - frozen or otherwise. We celebrate the sweet little girl that you are.And look forward with bated breath to meet the girl you will

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To Our Wonderful Mother!A very happy birthday - Ad 120!!We are so honoured to have you in our lives - listening, guiding, encouraging and loving us.We wish you many happy days at the mall.We wish you may happy times on the dancefloor.We wish you many a bowls of devoured macaroni and cheese.Cuz we, who've known you longest, love you.And we, who are loving to get to know you, love you.In fact, we

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This is just a quick posting to wish wonderful Ruby a very happy birthday!We love you so much!!We wish you everything your heart desires in years to come. The Knicks to finally win something...A lakefront property -- without the snow and iceNever ending sales!For Celine to sing to you...Your own personal Second Cup!Lots of laughter...Snowball fights to keep you on your toes.And remember what you

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Hello.I have had very little blogging time lately, as many people have pointed out to me. Whatchya gonna do, sue me?Is it my job to fill in your downtime at work with senseless ramblings about our everyday lives? I think my mum would say yes.So here is a quickie - a couple Hadasisms.The other day Hadas and I were in the car talking about Hebrew birthdays and English birthdays... it was Ruby's

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Hello everybody! We're back! OK, we have been back for a couple weeks now already, but I have been crazy busy and have had no time to blog.And all those guest-blogger promises didn't come to fruition, so you have just had to wait until I found the time to write.We had a great time in Canada - as is evident in the pictures below. My apologies to all those I spoke to and didn't see, or didn't even

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"...go take care of Ayelet, I'll manage."Now you may wonder what event preceded this line. Were Ruby and I, building a large piece of furniture? (actually I do all the furniture building on my own, so no). Were we in the middle of preparing a scrumptious feast for a late night dinner? (enter laugh track) Maybe you think we were battling flying aliens invading through the back window. But you

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Well Hannukah is over. It was a whirlwind of activities, parties, dancing, sufganiyot, singing, laughing, crying, cursing, candies, candles and chocolate coins.The eight things heard around the house over the holiday:1. Do I get a present today too? We gave her a couple gifts on the first and second days... so it was a huge disappointment when the gifts didn't keep coming! Ayelet got one present,

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I think it has been so long since I last blogged, that I just don't know where to begin!That kind of sounds a lot like my life actually, what to tackle first? the laundry? supper? bathtime? Maybe I should feed the girls supper in the bath fully dressed!! That would be killing three birds with one stone! Not that I support the mindless killing of birds with stones - now shotguns, that's another

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Hello All,Just a quick entry today to wish my wonderful sister Karen a very happy birthday! May this year present you with everything your heart desires!Enjoy your semi-vegetarian thanksgiving utahian dinner! Love you!

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Two weeks ago, Hadas and I stopped at SuperPharm (the Israeli Shoppers Drug Mart), they were having a sale on hair accessories, so I told Hadas she could pick something. She chose a set of hairbands - you know the plastic kind in gold, silver, brown and an assortment of other colours. In the recent past I had purchased another set of hairbands for her, which were broken within a week (she wanted

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Hadas: Mum. Mummy. Mum.My eyes flutter open.Hadas: Ayelet is awake, she is waiting for you.Me to her: Thanks sweetheart, good morning.Me to myself: Noooooooooooooooooooo!!! I didn't hear her, I could have slept ten more minutes!!Ayelet is getting very good at moving herself up and around (love that bum in the air!!). Yesterday, when I went in to pick her up from her nap, I saw a little hand

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Hi All,I just wanted to take this opportunity to use this very public forum to wish my dear sister Aimee a very happy and healthy birthday!I really don't know where the time goes!We love you so much over here! I will make sure to eat a giant piece of cake in your honour! And then in Benji's honour, and then Elana, Joel, Uncle Neal, Uncle Harold, Amichai and Karen's honours too. Man, that is going

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Don't forget to vote!! --->I am only writing this to make you happy. I know how important it is for you to hear from us. You know who you are... or do you?Since I am short on time today. I will just add a few pictures or maybe a video. As they say, a picture's worth 1000 words. (A video's gotta be worth more than that.)Hadas is a very friendly girl as I have remarked in past entries. When we

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I know I am guilty of having not supplied any blogs this week. But you are all guilty as well, there has been no demand! (I work in supply chain management, these terms are branded in my brain).If you are interested in me continuing to blog. Please add a comment below. I know you are out there, now is your chance to delurk!Really, it has been a very busy week... I have the next blog rattling

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My sister Aimee sent me a link to a very funny video of this woman who summarizes (in song) everything a mom says in 24 hrs condensed into 3 minutes...http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/ver/223/popup/index.php?cl=4274384Listening to it, I recognized so many things that have been said to me and that I have said to Hadas, it made me feel one with mothers and daughters around the world. And of course I

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Well the holiday season is officially over, now back to our regularly schedule blahs. No real hardcore blahs, just a couple, "wouldn't it be nice if I could just go away by myself for a week and do nothing" blahs.This of course probably relates directly to the fact that Ruby is away in France this week, I have been told by several people that I must stop breastfeeding in the near future if I want

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The Sukkot holiday is well underway! We spent the first chag with our friends the Dombs, who will become - if things don't change in the next twenty years - our inlaws!Hadas refers to Gilad as her Chatan (groom) and defers her dessert choices to him.Sharon: Hadas what kind of cake would you like?Hadas: Apple. No wait, my chatan is having chocolate, I'll have chocolate too.Don't they make a lovely

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Hi Everybody!Sorry it has been such a long time. I have been very busy these last couple of weeks.Mum and Dad were here, and we had a great time (and attended a lovely wedding - Mazal Tov Amichai and Tal) – crammed in enough meals for a whole month I think. My friend saw a picture of Mum and thought she might be my older sister! Very flattering…for my mother…But it’s true, she does look good, I

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We wish you and all your loved ones, a happy, healthy and joyous New Year. May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life for a year of happiness and peace for Klal Yisrael.Shana Tova and Gmar Chatimah Tovah.Love,Ruby, Deborah, Hadas and Ayelet

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Both girls have started new programs this week. Hadas has been very good about it - not a single tear. This may not seem astonishing, but she cried for three weeks straight at the beginning of last year. I know, she is a year older and as I am sure you can from these blogs, at least ten years wiser. Also, luckily she knows one little boy and one little girl who are also attending her new gan (JK)

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My girls are bilingual. If you count the Spanish from Dora, the French from the girls at gan, the smattering of Yiddish words that come up, Hadas actually speaks 5 languages (she could be an international spy)! And, well of course Ayelet doesn't speak yet, but she is already exposed to several languages, so I am sure she will have no problems getting confused too.One of my mother's favourite

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There have been lots of strange discussions around our house lately. These conversations are at the same time, serious, morbid and hilarious.Hadas: Everybody has to die right?Me: Yes, at the right time.Hadas: G-d decides right?Me: Yes, that's right.Hadas: If I were G-d, I would decide.Me: Um, right.Hadas: If you and Abba die, and I am still a little girl, would I live in an orphanage?Me: Uh, no,

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Note: Ruby's grandfather, Cantor Shmuel Frankel, Z"L, passed away last week, and I think that contributed to the somewhat melancholy mood of this post.The week before Ayelet was born, Hadas fell down or bumped into something (I can't remember exactly what happened), and I picked her up and held her while she cried.The week after Ayelet was born, Hadas fell down or bumped into something (yes, she

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I have decided to use Thursday's blog to share with you the top ten list of things you can hear me say as our day winds down here. Also I am not at work today, so I have better things to do! Not that I spend any time at work writing this blog!The count down begins...10. Don't put your fingers in the baby's mouth! (too late)9. Don't put that in your mouth! (too late) 8. Do you need a tissue? (too

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*Note: I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to read my blog and write your comments! Yesterday we got to 9 comments! No pressure folks! I have actually read some blogs where the comments are more interesting than the blog. I have no problem being upstaged by you all, so feel free, I may even comment you back. BTW - clicking on the title of a blog entry will enable you to see all the

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I hate bathrooms, especially public restrooms - there is nothing restful about them. They are full of germs. Anytime we are out and Hadas has to go to the bathroom, I inwardly convulse with dread. If you are in a public restroom and you hear a demented woman yelling at a four year old, "Don't touch! Don't touch anything! Don't play with that! There are germs! There are germs! Get up! Get up!" you

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Ayelet threw up last night. Twice. On me. And the couch.I just handed her off to Ruby to change and I went to take a shower. (Yes I know! Ruby was home at a semi-decent hour!)Last month her metapelet (nanny) called me to say that she had given her a bottle of formula and all seemed well, but an hour later.. bleh! My first reaction was not, "Oh my poor baby! I hope she isn't sick!". My first

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My sweet Lucy is hysterically funny. That may not be her intention, but I cannot help but laugh at some of the things she says.Thursday evening, I made her some chicken nuggets and put them in a bowl for her to eat while she watches the latest "please let mummy have ten minutes to herself" DVD.Me: Here's your food.Her: Thanks, can I have a fork?Me: (Oh crap, back to the kitchen again!) Sure,

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OK, I have taken the blogging plunge! I never thought I would do it! Expose my thoughts to the world - OK to family and friends, but still, these are going to be my most intimate thoughts!Why am I doing this? Because I spend an awful lot of time reading other people's blogs and thinking, that's great, their kids are going to have such a laugh about this!So I decided my kids should have equal

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