purim+ all done

I don't think hectic is the appropriate word to describe the last couple of weeks. I haven't written in a while for a couple reasons, mostly mom's sage advice.
1) If you have nothing nice to say say nothing. And believe me, I had nothing nice to say.
2) Other people may read this, so think before you write. I didn't want those other people to know what I had to say.

But now the party is over, purim is done, everyone is healthy and... our washing machine broke.
The stupid maytag machine that I didn't want in the first place but was told the day before we moved to take it or nothing because the one I wanted was not available. So now it is broken and our warranty ran out. Maytags aren't supposed to break within 2 years, but ours did. So we called the service company and they said it would take a week to come out. We called some friends and they gave us the name of another service guy who lived closer and he came out that day. He said it sounded like the transmission was blown and would cost a fortune to fix it. (about the cost of a new machine back home) We should try to talk with the people we bought it from to see if they'll fix it for free because its not supposed to break. So I talked to the people we bought it from and they said that they have to know exactly what's wrong with it so we brought our guy back who took it apart and said he couldn't turn a nut so he would have to wait until he got the manual so it could tell him how to turn the nut. As a side point he mentioned there was a lot of lime buildup in the machine. Which was odd. because we bought a filter from the company that installed it to make sure there was no lime build up. The guy even told us that if we didn't buy the filter the machine would probably break in a year or so. hmmm. so the filter didn't work and the machine broke. coincidence, i think not. so i called the company back and told them I believed it was their fault and the warranty issue was irrelevant. Now they are willing to come out and look at our machine in about 10 days. so golda's doing the laundry at the neighbors. what a pain in the neck.

To end on a good note. The kids had a great time on purim. Naomi and avigail were ballerinas at night and fairies during the day and yehuda was spiderman and naftali was superman. I wore the traditional cowboy hat and golda wore a wig from the kids dressup corner. Our big seuda plans were cancelled because of my quarantined house so we ended up with just my inlaws, which was nice but quiet. At the last minute I invited my neighbors to eat at our seuda before they drove a couple hours to another seuda and they accepted so we ended up with a slightly noisier seuda.