It’s been a while since the last post. And it’s been an intense few months for our family. When people ask us why we made aliyah, all sorts of reasons come up (the weather, one less seder night, some distance between us and a few stressful family members, option to live on a yeshuv…the usual …
After what seemed to me like a very long pregnancy – the first time I actually made it to 38 weeks – I went into labour on a quiet Friday night. I have no idea how anyone makes it to the full 40 weeks. I was starting to get severely p*ssed off. Having reached a …
Despite me praying that this baby would not roll up until I recovered from Whooping Cough (yes, I was lucky enough to get that in my last month of pregnancy, and wasn’t it fun coughing away) and we had finished moving house (lucky me again) once again I have not made it to 38 weeks. …
For a country that has a relatively high birth rate, there seems to be a bit of a problem. Nobody seems to know much about babies. Seriously, I kid you not. Aside from that there is an annoying lack of trust in mothers. Apparently we are the last person on earth to know what’s best …
Shalom ladies and gentlemen And welcome to my brit My mummy helped me write this poem As I am a little young for wit I turned up last Friday morning 2 weeks before my date I wanted my brit on Rosh Hashanah So I couldn’t afford to wait After thoughtfully letting my parents sleep I …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 (come on, it’s not that bad! Israel is a developed country you know!) Number of Schnitzel consumed: 5 Number of Nurses spotted who have walked straight out of the 1950’s: About 17 Tzfat hospital. Beautiful mountain views. My window looked onto the stunning Kinneret. Brand new almost-finished maternity unit. Lovely birthing rooms (not …
So after our lovely night out with friends I felt confident that they would be able to look after Jojo when I went into labour, so the following morning [friday] thats just what I did. Woke up just before 7, got everything ready, awakened Sleeping Beauty [Husband] and called a cab. We got to Ziv …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 Number of Burekas Consumed: 6 (whilst walking the 5 minute walk back from the bakery. I am pregnant you know.) This morning we took our usual bus ride to the neighbourhood we are flat hunting in. On arrival we spend HALF AN HOUR walking around in the sweltering heat looking …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 2 (one in kitchen and another by the entrance to a flat we viewed) As far as I remember, speed bumps were invented to slow down the speed of traffic in quiet neighbourhoods. Not so in Karmiel, it seems. Here, the bus drivers simply view them as an annoyance to be …