You Can Say That Again

I agree. Yesterday was a busy Sunday.

Our Sundays start off with getting the boys off to school. I get them ready and Yosef drives them. Once they leave, I usually go back to bed while Sara and Shifra play and Hadassah naps. This Sunday, though, we got a visitor. Actually, two visitors. Shmuly came over to pick something up from our house, and he brought Ahuva with. So we got our last chance to see Ahuva in Baltimore for a while. (We figure we'll probably see her in Baltimore next by Yanky's bar mitzva.)

After that, we headed off to a mall. Unlike the Aronins, though, we just went to one that we were used to, so we knew how to get there without any extra turns. Luckily, Shifra did not make any issues about that fact that she would be walking rather than pushed in a stroller. Hadassah got the stroller privileges this time. (I had brought a baby carrier just in case, but I was just as happy not to use it.) B"H, our shopping trip was successful -- we found shoes for Sara and Shifra to wear to the chasuna (their color is bone), and also a cute hair clip for each of them.

When we left the mall, it was rather dreary out, so I didn't feel like making any other stops although I maybe should have. (We passed by a Walmart, and I wanted to get a b-day present for Sara's friend whose b-day party Sara will IY"H be attending on Memorial Day, and I could have used some baby food jars too.) So we just went home. It was lunch time anyway.

While Yosef and the girls were eating lunch, I ran out to Hats to Hose and bought the girls socks for the chasuna. For some reason, I didn't get for Hadassah, though. Don't know where my mind was when I made that decision. And I can't even blame it on the kids -- I left them all home with Yosef for this trip. So, except for hair gel for Sara, she and Shifra are all set for the chasuna. Yay!!!

Meanwhile, we had brought out our casio/keyboard thingie. It's a Yamaha YPT-320 if that means anything to anyone out there. We won it at the Ner Israel Kollel auction this year. My first time winning one of the real prizes there! (I had won some instant raffle prizes last year and again this year. Fun!) Anyway, the kids were having a good time with that. But we had library books due, so at 4, we left for the library, despite the fact that the library closes at 5 on Sundays. But we made it there and managed to pick out another 30 or 40 books before they threw us out. Our last stop was Walmart since there was one near the library, so we did get a b-day present for Sara's classmate. We did not get baby food though. I wonder if they don't carry the Beech-Nut jars there 'cuz it's not near the Jewish community or what, but if you're ever in Baltimore and looking for them, don't try the Towson Walmart.

When we got home, all the kids had fun looking at library books. And, Chaife, we got another Farmer Brown/Duck book, sort of -- it's a counting book. We were thinking of you.

Finally, everything wound down for the day. Well, I thought they had, but then Hadassah came down with a fever. But B"H, with the help of a late night feeding and a dose of Tylenol, she slept decently. We went to the dr. today, and he diagnosed it as viral. The fever might be gone by now -- she seemed much better this evening. Either that, or her last dose of Tylenol worked really well.