First round draft pick...

So, I figured if the hockey-jersey-over-button-down-shirt look is good enough for Wayne Gretzky, then certainly my own son can get away with it! (We didn't have a onesie to wear as the 2nd layer today.)

After the success of the skating sessions in Toronto, I decided it was time to break out the hockey jersey. This one should be less controversial in the Miller family than Emmanuel's onesie was.

(Mom, please make sure Rhonda gets a copy of this picture; I don't have an e-mail address for her!)

A dirty four-letter word...

...and no, it's not one that Emmanuel Tzvi has suddenly learned! It's the one that my husband REFUSES to learn...PLAN. Yes, sometimes in life it's necessary to look beyond the next 2 hours, or even the next 2 days.



For example:

My brother-in-law is engaged, and will be married (G-d willing) 2 weeks before Pesach. We are all thrilled, and over the moon for him. However the aufruf will be the Shabbat before and the Sheva Brachot the Shabbat over, and that, combined with the fact that the wedding is NOT in Jerusalem, means a lot of bus travel. Too much bus travel, with 2 small children. The solution, of course, is to rent a car.

Snag #1: it's 2 weeks before Pesach, therefore all the rental companies have a 2 night minimum rental period. By the time we rent 2 nights for the wedding and 2 nights for Shabbat Sheva Brachot, it's cheaper to rent for a week. OK, done. It requires some budgeting and (planning), but it's doable.

Snag #2: what about the aufruf? Well, my solution for that was a bit less creative...I'm sending my husband on his own and I'll invite a friend to stay with me that Shabbat so I'm not on my own with the 2 kids.

So, with almost 2 months still to go, we've got all those snags worked out, and I just have to decide what company I want to have that Shabbat.



So what, you ask, is the problem? Nothing, except that I figured all this out myself because my husband doesn't (plan), and when presented to him, he felt it was a fait accompli and left out of the decision-making process.



But he still won't discuss (plans) for next Shabbat, because it's too far away to think about it.

Family Day?

Well, Shai and I had some sort of special event at the daycare this morning. It was "breakfast" at 8:45 (for the parents, not the babies), and then the music teacher was to come at 9:30 for a session. Well, had I known that I would have come only for 9:30; I thought it was going to be all going on at the same time. Not to mention that I actually left at 9:35...since Shai was more than ready for his nap by then!

I'm not sure, either, what exactly "Family Day" is. Nor what the date of this is supposed to be. The celebration with Shai was today, but Emmanuel Tzvi's daycare isn't doing anything until the 25th. And all anyone could tell me when I asked is that it's "after Tu B'Shvat", and instead of Mother's Day. (Mind you I never knew when Mother's Day was here either.)

Attempt #2

Well, that's life! And that's the title of the new blog. Obviously Emmanuel Tzvi's never took off; I just didn't have time to maintain it. And since time is even more precious these days (although ET is learning to sit at the computer on my lap without hitting "delete"), there is just no way that both Emmanuel Tzvi and Shai will be able to keep up their correspondence. So, here's hoping we can keep one blog up instead of a blog, 2 e-mail lists, and our intermittent photo shoots.