Finally, a new header image!

Yes, I know, we've been long overdue for a new header image (don't remember the old one?) but with four kids ka"h, its IMPOSSIBLE to get them all awake/clean/happy/SMILING all at one time!

So, you see what I finally did!

Toothpaste to the rescue!

We had a hectic morning, and when I wasn't looking, Bruria got her hands on a permanent marker....and of all things, guess where she decided to color? My computer screen!!! (which belongs to my boss, not me- YIKES!)

Well, B"H for Google, because as soon as I got all the kids off to school, I went and typed in "remove permanent marker computer screen"- and found a great thread where dozens of people wrote in how they used toothpaste to remove the marker from their monitor (I guess I'm not the only one with kids who like to color on computers)- and supposedly, they said it worked like a charm.

Well, B"H it did:

(Now I take no responsiblity for any of you out there who want to try it out...the moral of the story is to keep those markers away from your kids....not to have fun shmearing toothpaste all over your monitor!)

All dressed up for Purim!

My how they've grown!

I was looking through my old pictures and videos of the kids, and found this really cute one of Yisrael from last year:

So I decided to do the same thing this year, to compare how much he and Bruria have grown in the past year (I was almost going to put red PJ's on Yisrael and purple ones on Bruria, but I then I figured that was TOO much!)

Isn't it amazing how much they grew in one year?!

Pizza on wheels

For lunch one day, we made homemade pizza. I gave each kid a ball of dough and they got to roll it out themselves- (Of course Azriel Shraga ate half of his dough while it was still raw!) Bruria made her pizza in a standard circular shape, but Yisrael decided to get creative...he made a car! (And yes, he did it all by himself!)

Yisrael the fisherman!

On Rosh Chodesh Adar, all the kids come home from school dressed up (their Morahs must stay up half the night before, making all those costumes!). This year, Yisrael came home dressed up as a fisherman!

(Bruria was home with chickenpox, so no pictures of her...)

Long time no write!

Wow- I can't believe its been almost a MONTH since I blogged...things have been so busy here, I've barely had a moment to breathe. I guess that between the kids getting chicken pox, and all the Purim madness (I was VERY involved in a Mishloach Manos fundraiser for Bentzi's yeshiva), I basically ignored my blog.

Not that I really have much time now either, but I guess I'd better devote a few minutes now, before I move ahead full force into (gasp!) Pesach cleaning!