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[mommydama]

Another playgroup with the Orthodox Homeschool group tomorrow. We need a name. I don't know what to call these other three women and their children in my journal. But I'm very happy they are there and the girls are so excited about playing with the other girls again. Did I mention all the kids are girls except one five month old baby boy? Wierd. In fact my PreK/K sunday school class, the one I've been teaching for a couple of months now, is made up of 12 little girls...and one poor, lonely boy. To top it off, the boy is the priests son, and lives up to the reputation of a PK. Who can blame him? Poor boy has a lot of strikes against him. Heh.

In a semi-related piece of news...on Sunday, the dad from the family that is hosting the playgroup, who is the husband of that woman I like so much (you know the Serbian physics professor turned homeschooling mom?), brought all four of his kids, a 5 yr old girl, 3 yr old twin girls, and a five month old baby boy, to church all by himself. To give his wife a break. Wow. Anyway, I was talking to him after the service and he said "E (his wife) is already talking about how awful it will be if you guys have to move in January. She is going to be devastated. What are the possibilities for staying here?" Okay, vanity rearing its head, but I was so totally shocked by that and taken aback and...it felt so good to hear that somone CARED if we exist or not...that I cried after we got home. I don't know how long it has been since I've had a budding friendship that showed that kind of promise. *sigh* I don't want to move again.

But...I'm crossing bridges before I get there. Who knows what the future holds? I'm slowly and painfully trying to learn to live in the now...for this day...for this moment. I can't look much beyond that, wouldn't do me much good if I could.

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[videoleslie.livejournal.com]

A guy that I work with has two little girls at home...6 and 8, I think. Now, after thinking it over for a few years (obviously), they got pregnant again giving a boy one last shot. Just had the big ultrasound appt last week and...another girl. Funny how it always seems to happen that way. Your families, case in point. :)

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

I know several families at church who have three or more girls, and no boys. I can think of four off the top of my head and I know there are more. A couple of these woman have told me they are stopping unless someone can guarantee them a boy next time. Seems like boys are going to be in short supply in the next generation. Heh.

[ariellejuliana.livejournal.com]

The father of the family I live with started taking both the 3 1/2 year old and the nearly 2 year old to synagogue with him after the new baby was born (he used to just take the boy). They have to walk over a mile to get there (no driving on Shabbat), and he is not supposed to push a stroller or the big-kid carriage that he uses on Shabbat either (it counts as "carrying outside one's domain"). I was surprised that he made exception for this, because they are very strict about their observances and it is not something you can just choose what you do and do not want to observe. I mean, this is a family that won't sign hospital intake papers on Shabbos, or open the dishwasher if the lights are on on it. But I liked his answer to it, "I figured there was a much hotter place in hell for me if I left my wife home with too many kids by herself on Shabbat."

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

You work for very interesting people.

And, it is nice to hear about some of the really good men in the world sometimes.

[mimima.livejournal.com]

Wheeeee! What a great feeling to be potentially missed. Awesome!

[mommydama.livejournal.com]

It is a good feeling.

[mimima.livejournal.com]

:)

[pikefish.livejournal.com]

playgroup name: OH play (orthodox homeschool playgroup)!