Aliyah by Accident

First, let's talk about the stuff that *doesn't* last. A few of the games and toys I've thrown out recently:
1. Every remote control car we've ever purchased. We buy it, eagerly stuff in the batteries, start 'er up and for a few glorious nanoseconds, it works! Forward, backward, side, other side, into the chair, into the couch, under the table, through the...

Is blogging like bike riding? Not in that it also hurts your butt, but that once you do it, you don't forget how? Let's see.
I have been thinking a lot about stuff. As many of you know, we have a lot of kids. #Blessings! Once, I was in the kitchen (prolly cooking "I'll just have a yogurt instead" for dinner or preparing a lunch for its lengthy hibernation in my son's backpack...

What kind of aliyah blog is this anyway, if I let our 8th aliyahversary pass with nary a mention? So first I thought, but what is there to say, really? Then I thought, you all have come all this way, all the way over to my blog, so I should say something...

Just not here, here.
Kate and I have co-written a blog that she is kindly hosting for us over at One Tired Ema.
It's about Shabbat and how we calmly and holy-ly prepare for it all week long.