I’ll just ignore the part in which the date between the last post and this post is so far apart and move on. It’ll be fun! Play along with me, won’t you? And so… We were contemplating our pack-out in Israel for our move to the not-so-balmy New Jersey shores. As part of our trip, a [...]

I loved Germany. We vacationed in Garmisch-Partenkirschen in Bavaria at Edelwiess and – How lovely! How picturesque! People were really nice to us even if we didn’t speak the same language! And pork! And beer! And cheese! Unfortunately, we only had a week to spend on vacation and agreed that we wished we had an [...]

Goose got! (That means ‘hello’. That’s the only phrase I know. Show’s over. Nothing to see here.) Leaving for the airport at 3:30am for Munich and driving to Garmisch. Elise has been super-screamy but you know what? Germany is one of those, I don’t know, places where they have a lot of beer and that’ll help. I [...]

…Newark, New Jersey. Some of you already heard, some have not. So, we didn’t get another international post (goodbye Panama dreams) and we didn’t get my coveted Seattle. We got Newark, NJ. We will be there mid-autumn after a 30-day home leave in September-ish. We have to find a house to rent and buy furniture, because we [...]

Last week, Little Miss and I had an overnight flight from Tel Aviv to Boston. We arrived at the airport at 9pm Friday night (2pm EST) and boarded a flight that left at midnight (5pm EST). We then flew 12 hours to Newark, landing at 5am on Saturday morning. After a 3 1/2 hour layover, [...]

Next Saturday, I will be packing up my preggo self, the Squirt and CS to vacation in London. I haven’t made an itinerary as such, because ScreamyPants is officially reaching the Terrible Twos and her ability to contain her angst is a bit unpredictable. Mostly, I just want to hang out, look at books, and [...]

If you had two weeks vacation and you were going to spend one of those weeks in London, where would you spend the other week? Level of difficulty: 1. We are traveling with a toddler. 2. We would like to NOT rent a car - so train accessible is good. 3. Can’t be too far from place to place, [...]

We are finally getting some rain in our part of the world. While they desperately need it, I’ve heard it’s supposed to rain right through the weekend and CS is away for work. The Little Dictator isn’t napping and she can’t go outside all weekend, so this ought to be super. We went away to Eilat [...]

A cease-fire had been declared between Israel and Gaza. That is not to say that everything is entirely peaceful in that area because there are still rockets and air strikes, so I’d say it’s a bust. I’m unclear as to why this is being counted as a “war” as it is my general observation that [...]

On early Wednesday morning at 1 am we will be leaving the Tel Aviv airport on a jet plane to get our butts back to Boston for this guy’s wedding, a whirlwind tour of “hellos” and one day of work at the office before leaving the following Friday and arriving back here on Saturday. I’m [...]

If you’ve been watching the news then you know that the truce between Israel and the Palestinians is over. So over. Waayyyy so over. So that means they got all antsy and started launching rockets over the wall in the West Bank in Gaza and then Israel got pretty p.o.’d and bombed the hell out [...]

I will be getting a new passport soon, and I want to put it in this holder. The Powers That Be would probably wrinkle their noses at me. The last time I flew, TSA searched the bag that I checked and left me a nice note tucked into my underwear alerting me to that fact. So [...]