What does the elephant say?

Lots of fascinating new videos uploaded to youtube. Search for shirard1. Here's a teaser...

the contest is over...

and i won. i found me a full-time job. so i've earned myself my undying love and affection and a real prize, which turned out to be a clothing shopping spree. sorry for all you contest losers. maybe you should have tried harder? :)

Hello all Isenbergs,

The parental units are back from our trip to the East Coast. We have made Aliya L'Pittsburgh, got a grand tour of Shmuly and Avital's new house. It is really lovely, and whoever hasn't seen it yet is invited to visit. We also went down to Baltimore and dropped off Davy at Ner Yisroel. His roommates this year are Eli Grinblatt and Tzuriel Amster, two Chicagoans. We also checked up on Mutty, who is busy learning at Rabbi Shlanger's yeshiva. We got home at 3:30 a.m. Now, only Itchy and Chaife are left at home, and Chaife is leaving a week from Sunday. So put in your reservations now for Rosh Hashana and Sukkos. Unlike Romanian, I take reservations up to the last minute. It's hard to believe that the summer is almost over - I always get a little sad at the passing of another year. Baruch Hashem, we have had some nice simchas over the last year. May this coming year IY"H be even better and may we see much nachas from all of you. Good luck to one and all in the coming school year. Keep on posting.

Love,

Mommy

Updates from the holyland

Well, thanks to Yehudis we were invited on to the blog. B"H things have been settling down around here. Sruly went back to yeshiva on Rosh Chodesh. And we are waiting for our shipment, it is supposed to come this week, keyword "supposed to" yet, if the shipping guy would tell us where it is, we may have a clue as to when it's coming. But, we have kept ourselves busy, Friday we started to paint our kitchen. Boy, we didn't know how much work (and mess) goes into painting walls, I had to buy another can of paint today (don't ask how long it took us to find brown paint, who knew!) Here are some pictures of our new "pad". Also here are some pictures of our challa baking excursion. And you can check out our great fun with mashed potatoes...

Also we just downloaded skype, now we just need a corporate sponsor for our camera (hint hint). Our screen name is Isenberg613. We also have a handy-dandy American phone line, which is a Chicago area code (cool) call if your bored at 2 am your time.... 773-647-2920, we look forward to hearing from everyone :)

~ Sruly and Adina

Happy Birthday Hadassah!

Although today is Hadassah's birthday, Dovi and I decided to hold our celebration yesterday, both to accommodate various relatives who were taking vacations and because Friday is not an ideal day for a birthday party. Thank you to all of those that attended. Dovi and I truly appreciate you taking time out to help us celebrate. To those of you who were not there, whether out of town, ill, or otherwise pre-occupied, here are a few shots of Hadassah's birthday bash.

Enjoying her first piece of cake ever!

The Spread

The castle cake

The Pre-Party

The Dress
Hooray for cake!

It's ALIVE

So Thanks to Tattie and Mr. Dissen, James has been revived and is expected to make a full recovery. It kinda stinks that I already purchased a new computer. My new sony should be coming tomorrow - btw, I need name suggestions. So it is not %100 yet, but I think that Itchy will become the new owner of James. I don't know if I can give him up - he really was beloved to me! We'll see what happens. Anyway, I just thought I should share the good news - in fact I'm using James right now to write this post!
-Chaife

ramblings of an insomniac

This is what I wrote at 3 am two nights ago. . . wasn't sure if i should post, but figured why not. may even start getting u guys back to posting more regularly....

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Yo, mi famila. wassup? long time no post on this thing, and well, I can't sleep so I figured it'd be nice to give the folks in Israel something to read during their waking hours.

I am tired, mentally and physically exhausted and smell oddly of rubbing alcohol (thanks Esti!) but my apt is almost ready to be cleansed of the bugs that shall not be named. Most likely the dreaded B-bug that 1 out of 17 NY'ers are dealing with these days. (I thank my friend Elana for that statistic) Kinda makes me want to move to Montana, Nebraska or really any state ending with "A". (Steer clear of Arizona though  - i hear they're not too far behind with bug issues of their own. ask Esti for more info - i haven't been reading much of the news lately)

According to my doc after a number of treatments for moquito bites, hypocondria, scabies (i kid you not), or worse?! with modern technology and a biopsy of a bite they did discovered that the "wonderful" bites/rash/allergic breakout/hives i now posess may be caused by a mosquito, spider or some other lovely insect that has taken up residence with me. So i guess hypocondria is out. what a relief!

Whatever the cause, i expect by this time tomorrow anything living in my apt will no longer be living (that is, aside from me of course) God bless exterminators. May they live long and kill (bugs) often.

I think the past few weeks many of the Isenbergs and co. have had a bit of a rough time. Hope T-Dawgs feelin better, and Shira's more calm - and parents are less worried about their NY daughter who cant' seem to shut off the waterworks when it comes to talking about multiple legged creat- well, lets not go there for all our sakes. and baruch dayan haemes -my condolences to Chaifenstein on the loss of her beloved computer James.  (Go with a SONY this time!!)

Anyhoo, just wanted to post and get this blog moving again. Thanks to Lisa for keeping the momentum!! Post pics? I'm curious to see what Chaifenator and T made in art class. Post pics? And how was the Isenbergs of WRP*'s trip to the holy land?! (post pics :-D  ??)

Oh almost forgot. I want to add a few of our readers on to be authors too... you know who you are. (just in case you don't: Y&C chicago,  S&A israel) so send/resend me your emails and I'll add you to the list happily.


Lila tov to all and to all a good night.
~PM

*West Rogers Park

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Today's update: baruch Hashem yom yom that the heat remediation went fine according to the experts and my apt is ok to live in.  (hopefully it'll cool off soon... so i can live comfortably) thanks to all who helped me out and suffered through "crazy hudis" my apt is almost back in one piece and tomorrow it's back to work.

And Itchie's on FACEBOOK!?!? wow.