Hachnosas Orchim at Arie Crown

On Thursday, the nursery at Arie Crown put on a little show for the families of the nursery students. Adina and Shalom looked excited, as we all waited with bated breath for the show to begin. They started with a stunning rendition of "Shalom Shalom". This led to "Rosh, Einayim.."Shalom preferred not to do the motions (or sing for that matter). "Who built the teivah?" was next followed by a fall song. The finally was the kids using simple instruments to complement Beethoven's sixth. The crowd was on their feet, calling for an encore, but alas, the stars of the show had enough and were whisked away to their classrooms. We followed and were offered concessions such as dried fruit and Sunkist fruit gems. A grand time was had by all.

okay for some reason, my blogger account is set up in Hebrew. does anyone know how to switch it to English? It would be most helpful.

On a Hodi-note, she is feeling better, no fever, but is still very irritable and sleepy. Poor poopyhead. But she still looked mighty cute today in the outfit and headband in which aunty banana dressed her. thanks chaif - we owe ya one.

in other news, i attended a free diabetes half-day conference in the city today, and there was kosher food. kosher food! at a FREE conference. it was because it was in the UJA building. Dovi, the whole event was OU-certified. I hope that meets your approval. they're on the card, after all.

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Support your local Orthodox Dentist

Well, that's what we've been doing lately anyway. Yanky has been to the dentist twice since HM has arrived. The week before Hadassah (aka HM) was born, he complained that he had a toothache. I didn't make an appointment with the dentist because a) maybe he was exaggerating how bad it was b) I didn't want to make an appointment that I couldn't keep because of having the baby. Finally, the week after Hadassah was born, my parents offered to take Yanky to the dentist for us. As Yanky had unequivocally stated, he had a cavity. The dentist put in a filling, and Bubby took Yanky to school to carry on with the rest of his day.

Fast forward to this week, Monday. Yanky starts complaining about a toothache again. This time on the other side of his mouth. Not only that, but he states that he can tell it's not a cavity. Something else is wrong. This time, since I don't have to worry about labor getting in the way of a dentist appointment, coupled with the fact that Yanky woke up in the middle of the night with tooth pain AND was WILLING to take Tylenol, I made a dentist appointment the next day. Turns out Yanky was right -- the problem wasn't a cavity. It was an infection from an abscess under a cavity, or something like that. And so, Yanky's tooth was yanked.

To top off all of our recent dental office activity, our regular cleanings are scheduled for the beginning of next month, so we'll be heading there again in just a few more weeks. But maybe I should just settle for hoping not to end up there again before that!

3 pages - 4 more to go.

First off - Refuah shelaima to the Hod-meister.

Secondly, y'all should be so proud of me. After anxiously scarfing down a very unhealthy dinner, I sat down in front of my computer and began writing this never ending paper on Italian Jewry. Although my admitted obsession with Josh Groban and learning Italian through song did not quite come in as handy as I orginially had hoped, things are lookin' up. Who knew that the 16th century Protestant Reformation had so much to do with the horrible decrees by the Pope against the Jews. Well, when I'm done with this piece o' work you're welcome to read it so you too are in the know.

Like I've said before, it's an exciting and thrilling life I lead. And ufortunately, I still haven't done my laundry.

Buona notte la mia famiglia
~PM

A little underwhelmed

Apparently their is an obsession about the crannberry juice cocktail at northshore hospital (i made reference to it in my previous post) by some people in the frum community and after having tried it i have to say, i have no idea what the big deal is. It doesn't even taste like crannberry. I will say its a little refreshing since its nice and cold and has a little bit of flavor but its nothing to go crazy over. I just don't get it.

I wonder what the apple is like......?

Welcome to Northshore University Health System...

Today is my first day at northshore which was the hospital formerly known as evanston hospital. I have to say that it is quite a different experience. Here are some of the "perks" that come with going to Northshore as opposed to the U of C that i will enjoy over the next 2 months. Today i'm on OB so most of the "perks" are focused on that.

My commute was 10minutes as opposed to 35minutes.
Everyone smiles and is polite, even the clerks.
All the equipment i would need for epidurals are all in the room and i don't need to run around and grab it all.
The women, for the most part, are less than 400lbs.
The nurse helps with just about everything like getting medication, etc....
The patients actually cooperate and don't give you attitude when you try to help them.
The father is actually in the room.
The baby dady really is the father.
They have crannberry juice cocktail and i have free access to it.

I could go on, but so far so good. That being said, i've been here for all of 4hrs, but i'll keep you all posted. So far i have not had any frum patients, but i feel like thats only a matter of time. Sorry, can't reveal any names if i have any patients.

Later.