Happy Sisters!

Leaves.

Just leaves.

Happy Howie

Our Little Entreupener

Today was 'canteen' day at school.

Moishe comes home and tells me, "Mommy gave us each $2. I spent $1 but I have $6 change."
Me: "Huh?"
Moishe: "Well, I bought 10 gumballs for $1. Then I sold one of them to Mendele for $5. So I ended up with 9 gumballs and $6..."

Perfect opportunity for a lesson about economics (fair prices), halacha (אונאה), and math (how to calculate $4.90 in change for Mendele.)

The Lego Menorah Tradition

As practiced by Jews worldwide since 1974.

(Moishe's right arm was found and reattached later that day.)

Cleaning Help

Brach just said she is "cleaning the mess in the kitchen."

Let's see what exactly was cluttering the kitchen...

I see. Thank you, Bracha!

Dollies

One fall morning...

Bracha: Mommy, can you get me a dollie?

(Now, mind you, Bracha has never shown any interest in playing with anything remotely girlish. Hooray, I think, my creature is blossoming into a nurturing, kind little maidele!)

Mommy: Are you going to take care of the dollie? Give her a bottie? Put her to bed?

Bracha: Dollies don't drink botties. They don't go to sleep.

Mommy: So why do you want a dollie?

Bracha: Dollies don't cry when you hit them.

Oh, well...

Signs Your Child Might Be In An "Out-Of-Town" Yeshiva

He brings this home from an October field trip.

When the chips are down...

Chips on the floor, milk on the chair, and yogurt on the table.
Bracha has finished breakfast.

Fish Head!

"What do you have?"

Bracha: "What do you have?"
Me: "X".
Bracha: "X?" ...pause... "I want X!"

X = coffee, eggs, cereal, bread, meat, pizza, anything edible.

Antisocial

Bracha, at Moishy/Adina's chasuna - "Too many people!"
At the library - "I don't like people!"
At the pizza shop - "Hold my hand. I DON'T like the people!"

At least we don't have to worry about her walking off with a stranger...

How To Tell Which Company Sold Your Info To The Junk Mailers

Today's culprit:

cuddledown.com

Creatures in the front yard.

Creatures in the backyard.

Sisterly Love/Hate

I wonder when Bracha will finally get over the fact that Howie was born. She still abuses her (pulls her leg, sits on her...) and doesn't respond to discipline!

What's Wrong With Teddy Bears?

...Because I Like The Troubles

Pesach Is Coming...

Boggle Junior

Sunday 6 AM

See the red piece at the top of Bracha's creation?
It's a "tower nosey"!

But she doesn't want play "big wuggle" now.
"I want to go see my friend!", she kvetches.
Which friend?
"My mommy friend..."

Like cold cats under a car...

Bumi likes to hunker down near the heater vents...