This morning, sometime around 5:45am
Moshe: Abba, I am hungry.
Me: Moshe, what do you want to eat? Do you want some corn flakes?
Moshe: No, I don’t want flow-clakes (yes, that is how he says it, it is very cute)
Me: Maybe some cheerios?
Moshe: No, I don’t want cheerios
Me: How about some fruit?
Moshe: No, I don’t want fruit.
Me: [...]

For the past three and a half years, we have been using a pocket-sized point-and-shoot digital camera to try and capture our future memories. Although it has and continues to serve us well, we are very often frustrated with the amount of time it takes to capture a picture, from start to finish. Although it [...]

Read here about R’ Rafi G’s experience shechting some cows and sheep up in the North (you will either think that this is very cool or very gross…)

Happy Purim!!

“A”, one of our Shabbat guests, told me that she reads this blog regularly and she noticed that I didn’t write any posts last week.
Did anyone else notice? Did anyone else care?
(”A” also noticed the spot where our dude exploded. I guess that at least one person has been paying attention)
In other news:

Moshe has started [...]

Adina: Baby clothes are so nasty!
Yaakov: Don’t you mean to say that baby clothes with doodee on them are nasty?
Adina: Oh yeah. That’s what I meant. Other than that they are really cute.

Try it out. My best time so far: 17.562  21.797 seconds.

I can understand why at the early minyan (6 AM) on Rosh Chodesh, when Rosh Chodesh falls on a regular workday, why there is no singing during Hallel. People do need to get to work.
But what is the excuse today? On Yom ha’Avodah so no one has any work (of course), at the second minyan, [...]

Today, among other things happening in Israel, the fifth (of six) Nefesh B’Nefesh flight of the Summer landed at Ben Gurion airport. Although participants in the welcoming ceremony were asked to “Celebrate Aliyah” and “Focus on your friends and family”, it was just too much when (erstwhile cool politician, now a left-wing Sharon and Peres [...]