rambling

so i took my national boards part 2 last week and i don't get results till january or february. we were looking at houses in Detroit but i think we stopped for the time being. they either cost too much or aren't where we want them or are too small. so, cost too much is relative because in boston cheap is $700,000, where in detroit 275,000 is too much. go figure. devorah just went to conferences last nioght for the girls and we found out that our girls are perfect (in school). they both know how to share and hold a pencil, yael is excellent at kriah (thats reading , not ripping) and shira holds a pencil very well. shira can also color IN the lines and write a few letters! yael can write words and is very interested in reading both hebrew and english. chanalana can say packy (pacifier),, book (book), apple (drink) which is interesting because she doesnt drink apple juice. and many other words that we probabaly don't recognize as english. well shiras birthday passed and another year goes by. we are getting older but some of you are older already and some of you will get there soon. it snowed the other friday a lot, and i had to shovel because our landlady has yet to find someone to plow the driveway, so i called her up and it went something like this heloo mrs p how you doing ? oy vey not so good (thats how all of our conversations start) so i said me neither and she asked what wqas wrong and i told her my back hurt from shoveling the driveway and is she gonna hire someone to do it? she told me to take a hot bath , not that it works but thats what they tell her to do. i feel like i didnt get what i wanted out of the conversation. anyway maybe it wont snow again all winter
have a good day