Esther & Adiel’s Blog

There is just so much going on.

First of all, the crib has been working out pretty well. We give her a bottle sometime before 10 and she ususally sleepps until some point in the middle of the night like 4 or 5. I hear her crying, take her into my bed and feed her and we go back to sleep together. I’m usually tired in the morning, but then again, I’m always tired. I keep telling myself I’m giong to take a day off, but I haven’t yet, b’h. You know, I realized I haven’t got a full night of sleep since the second night in the hospital when I asked for a sleeping pill…that’s why they invented coffee, right?

In other news, we had a big huge fun Shabbos this past weekend. Uncle Shloimy and Aunt Miriam are here from Israel cuz he got honored by teh Neveh Tzion dinner where he is a Rebbe (has been for 30+ years). Then, the kallah, Chanie came and we hit it off immideiately. She is SO cute and fits right into oru family . Uncle Meir and Aunt Suri decided to come too, as well as a cousin Marlin from Chicago who was in town on Business. And SR and Aharon and the kids, and don’t forget my brothers. I don’t know how we squeezed everyone in, but in the Lower East side, you just stretch the rooms and borrow rooms from neighbors. ANyway , Shabbos was a ton of fun. Mommy outdid herself with the cooking and planning and there was singing and shmoozing and good food all around. Uncle Shloimy did his usual inspiring with his heartfelt divrei torah and it was so nice to look around and see the nachas that there b’h is. I got to sneak out to MTJ for the kiddush of my friend Teheila’s brother, and that was a treat. Shalosh Seudos was just women, and neighbor Leila and cousin Sheila and Alysaa joined us as well. What a Shabbos. As Adiel said, ‘why didn’t we just have the aufruf this shabbos and send Aharon to Vegas ’

Sunday night was Abba’s yahrtzeit. Imagine it’s a year since my last post and 5 since he’s gone. Almost the same crowd as on Shabbos. BTW, last yahrtzeit, I came home and took a pregnancy test that came out positive. Mamash that night, and here is Shaina Nechama . So the yahrtzeit was one of the nicest ones, we had two siyumim, Shloimy and Moshe. Lots of singing. Speeches simple, short, real and heartfelt. And Aharon being engaged was a huge chizuk. Even Mommy said it was the first year she didn’t just dread it and felt like we were really celebrating Abba’s life. One thing is for sure, he is helping our family out up there in ways we never can even know.

On Monday, the three women wanted to go to the cemetary, but we all ended up going different times. I realized that Old Montefiore is pretty close to Hewlett, so I dropped Adiel off at MAY (South Shore) to teach and drove myself. Even though it was rainign and the GPS wasn’t working, I still figured out how to go. Abba was helping me get there (with a little help from Hagstrom maps). Althogh I was there myself, it was nice having some ‘private time’ with Abba. I also introduced Shaina to her Zaidy (even though she was sleeping). From what I heard, SR came next and then Mommy, we all missed each other.

This week flew by — and before you know it, Memorial Day Weekend is here. Big stuff is happening in the Lejbovitz home over the weekend. Firsly, we are getting a very special guest from Chicago — Amanda, Adiel’s sister. That should be lots of fun. We also have Aharon’s engagement party / vort Sunday afternoon. SO lots going on, glad I caught all of you up on most of it.

have a great rest of the week / weekend / Shabbos!!