Smile

Oh! To add on to the post below... our fleishik sink got stuffed up over Shabbos. The water was not going down and we weren't able to use the sink. We did manage to clear somewhat it with hot water and bleach, but the water is still going down slowly.

But it's okay. I'm through with depressing posts.
Some things that made me smile recently...

The way Adel spent twenty solid minutes carefully reading the manual to my new cell phone

The look on Zusha's face when we learned that "24 hours" on Mercury lasts 58 Earth days, while on Jupiter, it lasts eight hours.

The way Gedalya sorted the recycling into bags and boxes without me asking numerous times. He worked so hard and got four mitzva stickers for that!

Adi saying "Ngengengengengengeeeeeeeh" when she's really excited for nursing, as opposed to her original "nge-nge."

And once she washes over the initial hunger, she unlatches and sings, "Nge-ngeeeh, nge-ngeeeh, nge-ngeeeh... AM!"
Here she is singing, although just randomly, and not in middle of nursing. (The best part of the song starts at 15 seconds.)

Having NO laundry to do (and only some laundry to fold.) That's right, I ran a laundry marathon, and now I'm free till the end of the week. The kids' hamper is empty (except for the pajamas from this morning), the darks hamper is empty, the towel hamper has a couple of things, but not enough for a load. The whites- it's partially full, but Hillel does those. I folded ALL the kids' clothes and put them away. Just some linens and my own clothes left to fold.

Finally being finished with the winter to summer closet transformation! Hurray!

Finding Adi with a mouth full of rock. It's only funny because I got the rock out safely. Once it wasn't dangerous anymore, I couldn't stop giggling. Gedalya brought home a couple of rocks, and apparently Adi found one an popped it in. Not suspecting anything, I offered her some food. When she opened her mouth to accept it, I saw a rock filling her whole mouth. The part that made me giggle is that she was probably sitting with a mouthful of rock for a while and none of us even knew. She was acting all normal.

The fact that my kids don't know what chocolate hazelnut dip is and I can just keep it in the cabinet without hiding it. And I can take a spoonful whenever I decide, without being sneaky. They are clueless!

Which brings me to another thing that makes me smile: kishkase. That's a word the boys made up. It refers to our snack cabinet. I think it may have originated with the word "cheesecake" although I'm not sure how. When the boys were younger, they'd climb up on the counter and call out, "Who wants kiiiishkaaase?" Now they just refer to the cabinet by this name in all seriousness.

These photos:

Do you know why I'm so happy?


I'll give you a hint. It's NOT because I'm extremely inappropriately dressed for the 80 degree weather. I am very appropriately (and cutely, I might add!) dressed for MARCH.
So back to my happiness level. I'm having a happy time because...

I'm in a swing! I just love to swing. There is nothing that can compare to the feeling of flying through...


GAH! Where are the brakes? Please tell me this thing has brakes!