I hope you all had a wonderful yom tov! Here we enjoyed it so much and I can hardly believe how fast it went by. We jumped right back into our regular busy life – I took ds yesterday to the oral surgeon to have his wisdom teeth out, but the time my dh told me he made the appointment for was actually a half hour later than when they said the appointment was scheduled. I thought I was getting there right on time. But I got the very next available appointment, three months from now!
Ds didn’t mind too much, though! He was very pleased when on the way home I took him to the MVA to get a driver’s manual. He needs to study it to get his driver’s permit. When he began to immediately read the manual and asked me if I would take him for his permit exam tomorrow, it brought to mind a belief I have regarding learning, that when a person is motivated, they’ll do what they need to get the information they want! He’s definitely motivated! (I’m not sharing that excitement, though. :))
Last night I expressed my unhappiness to my dh at the lack of movement towards having the computer fixed. After two and a half weeks I wasn’t feeling very patient any more. I’m so grateful that the libraries have computer access for the public, since that’s been how I’ve been managing until now, but the logistics were a little tricky (since I had to go during hours that I usually spend with the kids, and the timing had to work out with the baby being fed for a while) and I didn’t have nearly enough time to write about all the things that I’ve wanted to! Today someone finally came and took care of it, so I can once again get online from the comfort of home. I’m so, so glad! It also looks like we’ll be getting a new computer soon, since there are enough things that are problematic with this one that it’s not worth putting more money into fixing them, considering the cost of new one would be around what we’d have to pay for the repairs!
Ds7, dd9, and ds10 went to their monthly geography club meeting. When I picked them up, I picked up a three year old friend to bring home for ds3 to play with. Ds2 is busy having his own kind of fun as I write this – I just stopped him after realizing he was prying the keys off of dh’s laptop. He is a very typical two year old!
This afternoon ds10 is starting a job as a mother’s helper for a friend of mine. He’s very fun and good with kids, and responsible, too! If it works out well on both sides, then he’ll go there a couple of afternoons a week for a couple of hours each time. I think it’s good for kids to have a chance to earn money, and to help others in the process.
Dd13 is enjoying fixing up the girls’ bedroom. She had an idea about how to keep their belongings better organized; this includes screwing the shoe rack to the side of their freestanding closet, then removing all the large shelves but one from that same closet, and cutting them down (I don’t watch my kids use the power saw; it makes me too nervous) so that they will fit in the area behind their door. She’s in the middle of screwing all the newly cut shelves into the wall. I haven’t taken a look yet but she’s excited about it and I trust that it will look very nice when she’s done.
After we finished at Home Depot getting her the right size screws, on the spur of the moment it occurred to me it would be a good time to get a birth certificate for the baby. The paperwork took a very long time to go through this time, much longer than the last two home births. We were fortunate that the office was pretty empty so we were in and out within fifteen minutes. It’s one of those things that has been on my mind to get done, and since he’s already 4.5 months old, I’m really glad to have it done!
Our fridge is full of leftovers from the holiday, so dinner this week will be nice and easy! I guess it balances out well with all the extra work there is to get things back to normal – taking apart and putting away the sukka, washing a mountain of laundry….:)
Avivah
