Summer Stock Sunday - Dorothy, we're not in Tel Aviv anymore...

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Arrived last night. Photo taken on a beautiful walk in a nearby park (gotta love this town) this morning, edited at 4:30am - thank you jetlag...

It rained lightly the rest of the day (still is in fact), I'm glad we got the chance to get out into the woods to stretch our legs and get some bug bites fresh air before it started. The rest of the week is supposed to be beautiful though so we're off to the lake for swimming and a picnic tomorrow today (did I mention that I've been up since 4am and it's now tomorrow already?) (not so much off to as strolling down the block to - have I mentioned that this is a great town?), where my sister and family will hopefully join us by midday. My kids are beyond excited that the cousins are arriving, and just in time for tomorrow night's tonight's street party too. Last year's fair brought some great photo ops, I wonder what tomorrow's will bring.

What's summer brought you this week?

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Catch you on the flip side!

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Thanks so much for all the well-wishes on my last few posts, I really appreciate them.

In an effort to keep up the heightened level of craziness that is my summer I finished the exam and went straight into a laundry and packing frenzy since the kids and I are leaving for our annual trip to New Hampshire at 5:30 am. (Potential homerobbers be warned - my husband is still here, we've got security bars on all the windows and I have a VERY aware neighbor. Definitely not in your best interests, there are much easier targets all around. Just in case you were wondering ;)...)

My next post will be from (hopefully now much cooler) New England.

Catch you on the flip side :). (Our children will have no idea whatsoever what that means, will they? Sigh...)

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Done and Dusted

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Well, I'm done. It was grueling but it's OVER.

Now the wait. No results until the end of October.

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Summer Stock Sunday - Nearly There

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Amidst all the craziness that is studying for my exam (this Monday - I'm as ready as I can be, but still, aack!) I still managed a bit of fun here and there. The fact that I was double-booked for this past Thursday evening just added to the craziness. We first attended this:

Maya's final dance recital  
(Yes, a full month after school let out and all the other activities were long over, just one more reason why she will not be returning to this dance school next year. On the bright side, at least they didn't LOSE my child and not even freaking notice(!) this time - and yes, that's the main reason she will not be returning.)

And then the second Maya's group left the stage (leaving my incredibly wonderful neighbor and my son to collect Maya and bring her home where a sitter was waiting, no, don't worry about her, she gave the plan her blessing and she LOVES having sitters, so much so that I kind of worry what they're letting her get away with...) we raced out of the theater and back to our car so that we could race through Tel Aviv to the National Stadium to be on time for this:

So what did you all get up to this week?

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Summer Stock Sunday - Studying Like a Crazy Person

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So you might have noticed I haven't been blogging much the past few months... It's because I'm studying to take the lactation consulting board exam and am up to my neck in this book, and a whole bunch of others equally big and heavy and full of massive amounts of complicated information, from anatomy and physiology through to virus transmission, biochemistry, counseling skills (the easy bit thanks to my years as a breastfeeding counselor, thank heavens there's at least one easy bit...) and so so SO much more. Pretty much anything and everything that relates to the field of lactation counseling (hyperbilirubinemia protocols in the asymptomatic neonate, anyone? No? How about whey:casein ratios in human milk at various stages of lactation? Or perhaps management of the breastfeeding dyad when mom contracts Hepatitis B immediately after birth? Or the baby born (god forbid) with a serious birth defect or neurological syndrome? or...? See what I mean?) My husband even took the kids to Eilat (a resort on the Red Sea coast) for the weekend (a company-sponsored getaway) so that I could stay home and study in peace. Which I did. And am. And am about ready to go certifiably looney from.

9 days and counting...

Wish me luck!

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Summer Stock Sunday - Jerusalem Science Museum

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It's a good thing that Summer Stock is more about fun than great photography because I had a lot of the former this week and none at all of the latter...

The Jerusalem Science Museum is a great place to beat the summer heat for a few hours. The kids had been asking to go back for a while, so now that it's summertime and they don't have school or camp on Fridays we figured it was time to head up to Jerusalem and spend the day learning new things cleverly disguised as a fun day out, and of course gathering up good material for Summer Stock - including:

Remarkably mediocre snapshots of the kids doing their thing

 And a larger than I'll admit to number of attempts to capture this exhibit showing how "something" (magnetism? electricity? No idea, I didn't actually read the sign. Whoops.) made the paper clips in this bowl jump up and stand at attention every time you pushed the button. Seriously cool, even if don't have any idea what it was supposed to be teaching me.

So what were you up to this week? Fourth of July celebrations? Beach vacations? Just bumming around? Wherever your week took you come share it for Summer Stock Sunday :).

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Happy Fourth of July!

Summer Stock Sunday - Joe Cool

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It's hard to keep up that Joe Cool act when your mom keeps shoving a camera in your face, isn't it? Sometimes your innate sense of fun just wins out, despite your best efforts (and that Alfalfa-esque sticky-uppy bit in the back of your hair doesn't help either LOL).

Itai, at yet another end of year party

The kids finished school Thursday and summer vacation has now begun. Camp starts on Sunday and there are all sorts of good things planned for this summer. Time to let the good times roll!

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