Today felt like the first relaxing day in a LONG time. We went away for Shabbat but had to clean it really well on Friday as other people were staying in our house while we were way. The amazing part about that is that we got to come home to a CLEAN house!
Gavriel had to be up and out of the house early this morning to help out with the culling of the older chicken flock from the Jewish Community Farm. Gavriel learned Shechita last year and I think this is his 4th time being involved in a slaughter. The rest of us rolled out of bed closer to 9. I got the kids dressed and fed and brought them over to the shul where the shechita was happening.
On a side note; last year Gavriel had brought home about 8 shechted chickens that still needed to be plucked, soaked, salted and rinsed. The kids and I along with Jules, our live in nanny, plucked the chickens and then Gavriel and I did the soaking and salting. After that experience it was very clear to me why people prefer to buy their meat from a package in a store rather than be "closer to their meat". Since then Avigayil only wants to eat "store chicken" - and to be honest I really understand.
I thought that I was only going to be dropping Adin and Aderet off at the shul but Avigayil decided to stay as well as their good friend Laini was there. While Adin and Aderet went over to check out the processing Avigayil kept her distance. I got to go home and take care of some things in the house and they hung out there for a while and jumped in piles of leaves. Our friend Bruce Shaffer took some pictures so I hope to be able to post them here soon.
Eventually they came home, had lunch and played with Laini for the rest of the afternoon and Adin and his friend Tovi took off on their bikes to the Valmont Bike Park.
I had a chance to go to the Book Worm to sell some books we were ready to let go of and get some new ones. As I'm starting to write more often I bought myself two grammer books: Woe is I and Eats, Shoots & Leaves. That way I will know for sure if I was meant to use a colon, semi-colon or comma in the previous sentence after the words "grammer books".
We ended the night we home-made gluten free pizza and Madagascar 3. Well, Gavriel was teaching a class to post Bat-Mizvat girls, the kids watched the movie and I re-organized the bookshelf in the play room. I think I pretty much got the Madagascar plot down from numbers 1 and 2.
It's now almost 10 pm and I'm sitting in Avigayil's room with her hoping that she falls asleep soon. More on Avgigayil and her sleep later...
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