Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2012
Organization
Ok so I am usually pretty good about organization, keep things neat and tidy is an other thing, but the organization I usually have down. I am a bit stumped now though. So CNY is still sleeping in our room, occasionally he sleeps in "his"room at night, but its usually just falling asleep there, and he is always there for napping. The thing is I really want "his" room/the spare room to feel more like it is his room and not a spare room that he sleeps in during the day. The BIG problem is space, as anyone in Israel knows there is not so much space to store stuff, we don't have a machsan (storage closet) and so the spare room is kind of our place to store things so we have a large wall mounted shelving unit and two tall shelving units in there and no closet. I want to put a hanging rod in between the two tall units and hang from that a hanging shelf thing for CNY's clothes, his clothes are also in our room. I want to find a solution that the higher tops shelves can still store our things and the bottom will have his stuff, AND everything will look nice and neat and organized and not look like a garage or attic. Wish me luck and please please give me suggestions if you have them!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Quiet Life
Busy busy busy that is what life has been. We made a quick decision to move about a month ago and life has been packing...baby...work...baby...moving...baby...work...baby
The truck came and moved us on the 7th and since then we have barely been home between work, weddings and trying to finish packing up and moving the last bits of stuff.
So how did this all happen? Our landlord had mentioned months ago that he wanted to sell our apartment and at the beginning of February said he wanted us to move out by the end of the month so he can show it and sell it. We weren't going to but decided it is better to move on our terms and not his and not have people tracing through the house to look at it. I have been wanting to feel settled for a while and well now we have the chance to feel more settled and try to truly become part of a community and find "home".
We knew that when we moved out of Nachlaot we would be moving out of Jerusalem, the move just happened sooner than we thought it would. We started to think of communities that we like and wanted to look at and well we kept coming back to the idea of Bat Ayin a small hilltop village in Gush Etzion, outside of Jerusalem. There are only about 150 families here and there is not always open housing, so we figured we would look and see if anything was available. We found two open places and one of them we loved and was brand new, so we decided to take it.
So here we are living in Bat Ayin with an amazing view and living the quiet life. Well or at least what seems to be the quiet life. In the past few days there have been several attacks here in Israel. I have very mixed emotions about everything going on.
This great article, Dear Palestinian Civilians, that says how I think many of us feel.
We pray that everyone here will be safe and that the land will be safe for all of us and our children.
The truck came and moved us on the 7th and since then we have barely been home between work, weddings and trying to finish packing up and moving the last bits of stuff.
So how did this all happen? Our landlord had mentioned months ago that he wanted to sell our apartment and at the beginning of February said he wanted us to move out by the end of the month so he can show it and sell it. We weren't going to but decided it is better to move on our terms and not his and not have people tracing through the house to look at it. I have been wanting to feel settled for a while and well now we have the chance to feel more settled and try to truly become part of a community and find "home".
We knew that when we moved out of Nachlaot we would be moving out of Jerusalem, the move just happened sooner than we thought it would. We started to think of communities that we like and wanted to look at and well we kept coming back to the idea of Bat Ayin a small hilltop village in Gush Etzion, outside of Jerusalem. There are only about 150 families here and there is not always open housing, so we figured we would look and see if anything was available. We found two open places and one of them we loved and was brand new, so we decided to take it.
So here we are living in Bat Ayin with an amazing view and living the quiet life. Well or at least what seems to be the quiet life. In the past few days there have been several attacks here in Israel. I have very mixed emotions about everything going on.
This great article, Dear Palestinian Civilians, that says how I think many of us feel.
We pray that everyone here will be safe and that the land will be safe for all of us and our children.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
stir crazy
I don't know what it is, maybe its the cold weather and staying in doors or maybe its the fact that I feel very overwhelmed with all of the things I need to do and the lack of time I have to do them. Maybe it is just my feeling of needing to get out of the city. What ever it is I have this overwhelming feeling that I just need to GET OUT!! What do I need to get out of though?
Y and I have been discussing moving, I want to feel more settled have something that feels more permanent and more like "ours". Buying isn't really an option right now, but at least we want to try and find a place we like, a place to settle.
Part of all of this could be that our landlord has told us that he wants to sell, and so I now know there is an expiration on our apartment. I really love this apartment, but there are many things I don't like about it and now that I know we will need to move at some point they are all intensified.
Also probably the fact that I still don't feel like I accomplish anything. I know that isn't true, but I just wish I could accomplish more than I do each day. But well this is being a mother I guess, and well I guess I just still need to work on figuring out a routine. If only CNY would stick with a routine HA! Last night he went to bed a little later than usual but then woke up at 6:40am wanting to play, so as Dr. Sears says just roll over and play dead and he will eventually get bored and go back to sleep and well it so far has worked the few times we have tried that. But then after being up for a while and going back to sleep he slept until 11:30am! You would think that this would be amazing, but well then I never know when he is going to wake up and when he will want to nap and when he will actually go to sleep at night. hump... the unpredictability of babies! I love this little boy, sure keeps me on my toes.
SO back to how this all started, I have all of these projects I want to work on and I don't seem to ever complete them or even start them or I start and they just don't seem to be coming out the way I want them to. Maybe one day I will be a "SUPER MOM" like the ones you see on TV or in the movies that always have cute clean put together outfits with their hair done all up and their inchipped nail polish, and perfectly cleaned houses with everything in its spot and the kids always seems happy and content! Is this unrealistic portrayal of mothers whats getting me down and feeling like I am in a rut, is is the lack of permanence, is it the feeling that I just don't want to be an adult, am I an adult!!!??? What?!?!?! When did that happen?!?!
Ok back to the little many scooting around on the unswept and unwashed floor pulling everything off the coffee table!
Y and I have been discussing moving, I want to feel more settled have something that feels more permanent and more like "ours". Buying isn't really an option right now, but at least we want to try and find a place we like, a place to settle.
Part of all of this could be that our landlord has told us that he wants to sell, and so I now know there is an expiration on our apartment. I really love this apartment, but there are many things I don't like about it and now that I know we will need to move at some point they are all intensified.
Also probably the fact that I still don't feel like I accomplish anything. I know that isn't true, but I just wish I could accomplish more than I do each day. But well this is being a mother I guess, and well I guess I just still need to work on figuring out a routine. If only CNY would stick with a routine HA! Last night he went to bed a little later than usual but then woke up at 6:40am wanting to play, so as Dr. Sears says just roll over and play dead and he will eventually get bored and go back to sleep and well it so far has worked the few times we have tried that. But then after being up for a while and going back to sleep he slept until 11:30am! You would think that this would be amazing, but well then I never know when he is going to wake up and when he will want to nap and when he will actually go to sleep at night. hump... the unpredictability of babies! I love this little boy, sure keeps me on my toes.
SO back to how this all started, I have all of these projects I want to work on and I don't seem to ever complete them or even start them or I start and they just don't seem to be coming out the way I want them to. Maybe one day I will be a "SUPER MOM" like the ones you see on TV or in the movies that always have cute clean put together outfits with their hair done all up and their inchipped nail polish, and perfectly cleaned houses with everything in its spot and the kids always seems happy and content! Is this unrealistic portrayal of mothers whats getting me down and feeling like I am in a rut, is is the lack of permanence, is it the feeling that I just don't want to be an adult, am I an adult!!!??? What?!?!?! When did that happen?!?!
Ok back to the little many scooting around on the unswept and unwashed floor pulling everything off the coffee table!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Time Time Time
Where does the time go? The days and the weeks seems to just fly by yet it feels like I never get anything done. It is very difficult to get things done with a baby or at least with my baby. He likes to be held and he likes to be with me. He plays really well by himself but a lot of the time he will play nicely but I have to sit next to him, I can be doing my own thing but I have to sit with him. I try to wear him around the house so I can get things done, but then well things happen like what happened on Thursday...I was wearing CNY on my back and he reached over and grabbed a spoon that was on a bowl of a ton of squash I had cooked to make a souffle with and BOOM it all fell on the floor, that isn't the first time that happened, but well I guess a few casualties is better then not getting anything done.
I was feeling so sad that it felt like my house is a mess and I can't accomplish anything that I decided to see if I can find anyone to volunteer/help me for just 1-2 hours/week so I cab get some stuff done and surprisingly a few people offered and a few others offered ideas of ways to find someone. I am hoping to try and get someone to come this week, we will see if that helps and makes me feel better. It also could just be the winter. Winter seems to always make people a little bit sad and depressed, I guess because everyone is inside to stay warm and because the sun goes down so much earlier and I now that makes me tired. And well so does being a mommy of a teething baby. Being a mommy sometimes is rough!! I love it so so much but I guess I just didn't realize that even at 8 1/2 months it was still going to be so hard to accomplish anything. The things that no one ever tells us or maybe that we just don't want to believe until it happens. My respect for mothers and mothers of multiple children and single mothers has gone up tremendously!! Way to go mommas!!
I was feeling so sad that it felt like my house is a mess and I can't accomplish anything that I decided to see if I can find anyone to volunteer/help me for just 1-2 hours/week so I cab get some stuff done and surprisingly a few people offered and a few others offered ideas of ways to find someone. I am hoping to try and get someone to come this week, we will see if that helps and makes me feel better. It also could just be the winter. Winter seems to always make people a little bit sad and depressed, I guess because everyone is inside to stay warm and because the sun goes down so much earlier and I now that makes me tired. And well so does being a mommy of a teething baby. Being a mommy sometimes is rough!! I love it so so much but I guess I just didn't realize that even at 8 1/2 months it was still going to be so hard to accomplish anything. The things that no one ever tells us or maybe that we just don't want to believe until it happens. My respect for mothers and mothers of multiple children and single mothers has gone up tremendously!! Way to go mommas!!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Son Of A...
...Rabbi
That's right, this is what a son of a Rabbi looks like!
Already learning, such a Talmid Chacham, wise student!
I am so proud of Y! He has been working very very hard over the past year towards this. He studied really hard and completed a 12 hour exam and now...Y is a Rabbi!!
Y I ♥ you and am so proud of you!
Already learning, such a Talmid Chacham, wise student!
I am so proud of Y! He has been working very very hard over the past year towards this. He studied really hard and completed a 12 hour exam and now...Y is a Rabbi!!
Y I ♥ you and am so proud of you!
this kid sits
wow sitting has changed everything. CNY is now very interested in being independent now. he loves to sit by himself and play with his toys.watching a baby sit is amazing, babies have such perfect posture. when do we loose that good posture? Y thinks its from going to school and sitting behind a desk for so long. who knows! but we can all learn a lot from babies.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Welcome To The Tribe
Introducing......Chayim Natan Yisrael
A BIG name for a little man. The Bris was a very emotional day for me, we initiated our baby boy into the tribe and gave him his name. While I was pregnant my maternal grandfather passed away and we had discussed that if the baby was a boy then we would most likely name him after my grandfather, Chayim Yisrael. After the baby was born we knew this would be his name. There is an idea that parents get ruach hakodesh (divine inspiration) in deciding the name of their child, we really saw this because the day before the bris both Y and I had the idea separately to also give our son one of Y's paternal grandfather's names, he was Natan Alter, so we chose the Natan. And there we have it, Chayim Natan Yisrael, Israel gives life or we give life to Israel!!!
Mazal Tov!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
The countdown
Tomorrow is our EDD (estimated due date), for the most part everything is ready for baby to arrive. I thought maybe I was having contractions a few days ago but well we are still here together as one unit. I keep asking baby when s/he is going to come out and meet us, but well no answer yet. Just waiting...
I am trying to take this waiting time and get more things done around the house that need to get done. B"H my mom is here and has really been helping me a lot. Thank you MOM!!!!
My belly is definitely getting lower so baby must be on the way, just don't know if it will be a day or two now or a week or two, I am hoping for the earlier option. My midsection is getting increasingly uncomfortable, but as everyone keeps telling me it is all worth it! I cannot wait to find out! All I can do now is wait...
I am trying to take this waiting time and get more things done around the house that need to get done. B"H my mom is here and has really been helping me a lot. Thank you MOM!!!!
My belly is definitely getting lower so baby must be on the way, just don't know if it will be a day or two now or a week or two, I am hoping for the earlier option. My midsection is getting increasingly uncomfortable, but as everyone keeps telling me it is all worth it! I cannot wait to find out! All I can do now is wait...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
the never ending laundry pile
Thank God laundry isn't like this anymore. Every time I complain about our HE (high efficiency) European washing machine, I need to just remember that laundry could still take 3 hours to do, but would be much more labor intensive than sorting, scooping detergent, choosing a setting, and pressing the on button.
There always seems to be laundry to do, well and dishes to wash, but that is for another day.
Today I finished washing all the baby stuff that we have (not that it is very much) in preperation for the LO (little one) to arrive. I am now sitting amongst piles and piles of baby blankets, burp cloths, onsies, socks and sleep gowns, all so tiny and adorable.
Now is the difficult part, choosing which blanket to bring with to the hospital. Today I also began to pack my hospital bag, I know I still have time, but I figure with Pesach coming so soon, why not just get it over with and pack it. Still need to work on a playlist for my iPod or at least a CD for the "birthday". So glad Y and I have already picked out what outfit the LO is going to wear home from the hospital. It is an adorable yellow and cream outfit with a super cute cream hat I knitted for him/her.
I can't believe I still don't' know what this baby is. Y doesn't want to know, and well how can I know and not tell him?! I am SO curious!!! Not too much longer to wait now, just a little over a month till our due date, but I guess really s/he could come out to meet us in a few weeks! Wow so much to do.. back to the laundry piles, I think that is where I will be living form now on, especially since we are going to try and use cloth diapers. Wish us luck!
Monday, March 8, 2010
the growing bump
When I was so small I still thought I was SO big, but now I am actually ginormous!!
week 16
week 18
week 19
week 20
week 28
week 31
week 34
How will this baby get any bigger there is just no room left?!
Almost there, 6 more weeks!
week 16week 18week 19week 20week 28week 31week 34How will this baby get any bigger there is just no room left?!
Almost there, 6 more weeks!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
6 weeks to go...
This is all going by so fast, only 6 more weeks! This is all getting very exciting but we still have a lot to do.
cleaning cleaning cleaning...lots to clean
And Pesach is sooo soon, so much cleaning to get ready for Pesach. I am so excited to be here for Pesach this year and this will be Y's first Pesach in Israel. He always goes home to his family, like we did last year, this will be such a different experience for him!
We were already invited months ago for seder to a family down the street. As soon as they found out when we are due they invited us. It is unlikely that we will give birth during seder or even during Pesach but it is possible since we will be in our 37th week!
The excitement is just beginning!
cleaning cleaning cleaning...lots to clean
And Pesach is sooo soon, so much cleaning to get ready for Pesach. I am so excited to be here for Pesach this year and this will be Y's first Pesach in Israel. He always goes home to his family, like we did last year, this will be such a different experience for him!
We were already invited months ago for seder to a family down the street. As soon as they found out when we are due they invited us. It is unlikely that we will give birth during seder or even during Pesach but it is possible since we will be in our 37th week!
The excitement is just beginning!
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The Stand
At The Stand one day with my parents we found a banana about the size of our baby that week, 20 weeks 4 days.
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