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Calm Mom, Carrots and More

Things look so much brighter today. I'm no longer angry. Also my daughter is home from sleepaway camp...sleeping peacefully now in her own room. Eldest son was the ghost writer for a piece published in the Congressional Record, a great accomplishment for a college sophomore doing his first internship. (shepping nachas here) He wrote about the 11th Yarzeit of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

The space shuttle is launched! Something cheerful to actually report in the news other than bombs real and imagined all over the world.

My Israeli-American friend's daughter in Israel smuggled herself into Gush Katif! No she wasn't under the carrots, but somehow she snuck in.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=86548 She's staying with a family and probably will last the whole three weeks. Then what? Jail? She's eighteen now so getting arrested could be a big deal. Doesn't bother her though.

Supporting Israel - The only country:

- where people visiting your home for the first time ask "Can I help myself from the fridge?"
- where people show you photos of their kids, even when the kids are present (and terribly embarrassed).
- where a corporal's mother has the cell-phone number of the platoon commander (and he better watch out...)
- where a man in a grubby open-collared shirt is the distinguished cabinet minister, and the guy standing next to him in a suit and tie is his driver.
- where the unemployed go on strike.
- where no woman has ever got along with her mother, but even so they all phone their mother three times a day, twice at your expense.
- that has taken missiles from Iraq, Katyushas from Lebanon, suicide bombers from Gaza, and shells from Syria, yet a three-roomed apartment still costs more than one in Paris.
- where, on a first date, the guy asks the woman where she did her army service. It's also the only country where it transpires that she was more of a combat soldier than you were....
- where porn stars are still asked, "What does your mother think?"; footballers bring their dads to the game to shout at the coach; and on Fridays - when everyone goes home to visit the family - everyone sits exactly where they sat age five.
- where, if you despise politicians, abhor clerks, hate the situation, are disgusted with the taxes, loathe the standard of service, and detest the weather, it's a sign that you love it.
(from an article by Yair Lapid)

What a Difference a Day Makes

There we were, my dear husband and I, on an idyllic weekend in the Catskills, almost like it was back twenty years ago when we were first married! Peaceful, fun, rejuevenating...

AND THEN>>>>24 hours later.....wham...back to real life!

The source of my most recent tsouris (troubles) is the child who' s name is embedded in the above word "rejeuvenating".

I will not say any more tonight as I must CALM DOWN FIRST!!!

Or Eat some chocolate Fondue perhaps?