7.30 - wake up. Discover that the baby has a 101.5 degree fever. Ugh.
7.30 - 8.15 - Get the kids, who woke up half hour before us and are already wild, ready for school all the while juggling whining pre-Tylenol baby. DS has a Chanukah play, so I need black pants and white top. Something I completely forgot about yesterday. So I settle for brown pants, blue shirt and blue/white vest.
8.20 - Last minute decide to get a ride from SubHub to the supermarket, so dress myself in 2.5 minutes - not bad for winter, huh? - though do have for some time a nagging feeling that I forgot to brush my teeth.
9.10-10.05 - food shopping
10.00 - 11 - driving class (Yes, you are reading this right, I was 5 minutes late)
11.00-11.30 - go to the bank/additional food shopping
11.30 - 1.15 - DS's Chanukah play
1.15 - 2.00 - went to the liquor store and pharmacy with DS on the way to home. Must've repeated the line, "No I can't buy it for you, please don't touch anything" 50 times. Had to distract DS from tiny liquor bottles as he reasonably thought those were for babies.
2.00-3.30 - feeding DS, unloading groceries, cleaning up.
3.30-4.00 - walking to pediatrician with the baby and DS.
4.05 - reunited with DD and SubHub at the pediatrician's office.
4.00 - 5.30 - at the pediatrician with all 3 kids and - thank Heavens and SubHub - SubHub. The main reason for the visit is to give all the kids flu shots and catch up on baby's other shots.
5.15 - Informed that due to baby's fever she won't get ANY shots and thus the visit must be repeated preferably sooner than later because who needs flu shots in the middle of January? (Why couldn't she spike the fever tomorrow? Sigh)
5.20 - Informed that older kids' swine flu shot needs a boost in about a month from now. So the whole, "Please don't destroy the good doctor's office and YES, that includes the very expensive scale, telephone and medical equipment." will be repeated sooner than I would've wanted to or expected.
5.25 - SubHub asks the good doctor for the used syringes, she obliges and this time we don't get the "did you think about rehab" vibe.
6.00 - HOME at last.
6.00 - 7.00 - making supper while juggling supervision of baths, brother- sister fights, doing homework with DD, fighting organized attempts at illegal snacking all the while juggling whining baby whose Tylenol already wore off.
7.00 - 7.30 - supper with whining and at the same time incredibly wild kids.
7.35 - SubHub has had enough and sends the kids to sleep. As long as he gets to be the bad guy, I might as well enjoy...
8.00 - Unbelievable, but they are both asleep.
8.10 - 9 - enjoying peace and quiet, writing this post while eating cold soup.
And the day is not over yet since cleaning up/laundry/tons of other stuff must be done.
I wanted to finish this with the cliche of looking forward to relaxing day at work tomorrow, but towards the end of the post I must admit - it was fun! Tiring, annoying, crazy busy - but overall fun day! I so wish I could stay home with them and have more of these days... (Note to the Al-mighty, please don't interpret this as a hidden desire to be laid off...)
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, January 7, 2008
Plea fo Sherry Dimarsky - Sarah Hannah bas Bayla
I just got this in my email. I personally saw Sherry only once in my life, but she made a huge impact on me. She also remembers me to this day insisting to keep in touch. She is always on a look-out for a mitzva and seeks out ways to help, even to people she only saw once (this is from my personal experience.) I plead with all of you visiting this blog to get news about Rav Berenbaum to please say a prayer for this absolutely wonderful woman.
This is the email:
Dear all,
As you may or may not know, Rabbi Dimarsky's wife, Sherry, is critically ill. The lung that was transplanted 3 years ago is being rejected and the doctors give her a week (!!!! May we never know the horror of such statement !!!!) when she can still qualify for another lung transplant if a match is found. They are estimating that after that she will be too weak to go through such major surgery, which is the last chance, at least in our human view, for continuing to live a normal life.
Aside being a mother of 4 wonderful boys and a wife, Sherry is the most giving and community-service dedicated person I know. Being a lawyer, she chose a non-financially lucrative career and for many years headed an organization for abused women, giving it endless hours and her physical and mental efforts. Even while being very ill, Sherry spent all of her time helping, mentoring and comforting others. I and hundreds of others have been inspired and touched by her light. What she and her husband did for the Russian-Jewish community of Chicago is immeasurable and seems hardly humanly possible.
Sherry's parents are both Holocaust survivors who have already buried 2 out of 4 of their children. We can't even imagine what they must be going through at their old age with their 3rd and youngest child being so ill.
With that being said, we believe that the power of prayer can change a situation even as grave as this. We are asking everyone to say prayers as much as you can for Sherry's miraculous and speedy(!!!) salvation from her suffering and that of her family. When we pray for an ill person, we use their Hebrew name ( Sarah Hannah bas Bayla). Prayer doesn't have to be formal - sincere words coming from the heart are just as powerful.
Also, we are asking that people dedicate (mentally) mitzvahs-good deeds- to Sherry's salvation. It can be something simple that you are not doing otherwise (i.e. lighting of Shabbos candles, Torah lessons, giving charity, choosing not to engage in gossip, etc.) Please do something special this week.
May all of our communal prayers and good deeds break the evil decree! Thanks in advance for all of your help.
P.S. Please pass this on to anyone who might know the Dimarskys and is not aware of the severity of Sherry's current situation.
This is the email:
Dear all,
As you may or may not know, Rabbi Dimarsky's wife, Sherry, is critically ill. The lung that was transplanted 3 years ago is being rejected and the doctors give her a week (!!!! May we never know the horror of such statement !!!!) when she can still qualify for another lung transplant if a match is found. They are estimating that after that she will be too weak to go through such major surgery, which is the last chance, at least in our human view, for continuing to live a normal life.
Aside being a mother of 4 wonderful boys and a wife, Sherry is the most giving and community-service dedicated person I know. Being a lawyer, she chose a non-financially lucrative career and for many years headed an organization for abused women, giving it endless hours and her physical and mental efforts. Even while being very ill, Sherry spent all of her time helping, mentoring and comforting others. I and hundreds of others have been inspired and touched by her light. What she and her husband did for the Russian-Jewish community of Chicago is immeasurable and seems hardly humanly possible.
Sherry's parents are both Holocaust survivors who have already buried 2 out of 4 of their children. We can't even imagine what they must be going through at their old age with their 3rd and youngest child being so ill.
With that being said, we believe that the power of prayer can change a situation even as grave as this. We are asking everyone to say prayers as much as you can for Sherry's miraculous and speedy(!!!) salvation from her suffering and that of her family. When we pray for an ill person, we use their Hebrew name ( Sarah Hannah bas Bayla). Prayer doesn't have to be formal - sincere words coming from the heart are just as powerful.
Also, we are asking that people dedicate (mentally) mitzvahs-good deeds- to Sherry's salvation. It can be something simple that you are not doing otherwise (i.e. lighting of Shabbos candles, Torah lessons, giving charity, choosing not to engage in gossip, etc.) Please do something special this week.
May all of our communal prayers and good deeds break the evil decree! Thanks in advance for all of your help.
P.S. Please pass this on to anyone who might know the Dimarskys and is not aware of the severity of Sherry's current situation.
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