Nightgowns, star, and temple
March 9, 2003 | 10:48 PM

Okay, the ordinary stuff that happened today.

Last night. I went to get ready for bed, and I cut the tags off of both sets. Put on the purple ones, though I had trouble getting the pants on. Sat down. They were too tight! So now we can’t return them, and my mother’s talking about exercising. Great. Just great.

On the way home from meeting the rabbi, we stopped at Wal-Mart. I now have four more sets of nightclothes, and these I can wear year-round. Hehe. We also got shoes, so when I step in mud the mud doesn’t come right through my shoes. Yes, that’s how bad it was.

At Temple Beth Emit, we stopped at their gift shop. Omg, I have another Star of David necklace now! One side looks like it’s diamond, and the other side is just a metal star that the thing is on. I accidentally put it on backwards, but I like it that way. I’m keeping it backwards.

Guess who got to baby-sit four preschoolers from three to five this afternoon while their parents listened to a rabbi speak? Me. Well, Abigail did too. I didn’t catch all the names, but the boy was Hunter and one of the blonde-haired girls (all three of them were… whatever happened to that thing about Jews having dark hair?) was Ester. We put Bear in the Big Blue House and then The Muppet Show on, and the kids watched those while coloring, played with a lil house thingy, and played with a lil number electronic thingy that Hunter brought. Hunter also brought cards, and he and Abigail started a game of Go Fish. She got frustrated because he cheats, so I switched places with her. There were animal crackers, pretzels, and apple juice for the kids, which we gave to them. Abigail also took some, but I didn’t take a cup of juice till near the end. I made the mistake of setting my cup too close to the edge—Hunter’s sister mistook it for hers, and drank from it. I hope I didn’t get her sick, since I’m dealing with a cold. The next time I put my cup near the wall, though, just in case.

We didn’t really have any problems, other than the hard time we had keeping the kids in the room—they wanted their mothers, and often wandered out. Abigail or I would follow them, but we couldn’t stop them. Atleast they didn’t make too much noise in doing so.

A lady at the temple gave both Abigail and me envelopes at the end—each containing a card and a necklace. I don’t want something for the babysitting! I was volunteering; I was doing a mitzvah! Sigh…

Amazingly, neither Abigail nor I fell asleep during religious school. The first hour we practiced for the service, with an interruption for an explanation of how the religious school hours are set up for different temples. Alex left at six, and since Jessica wasn’t there and Mrs. S didn’t want to teach class for two students, we made posters about chapters in our book, under the theme “B’nei Mitzvah for a Lifetime.” I did the chapter that talked about “Rolef Shalom: Peacemaking.” Pretty easy, just drew a dove (that originally had a goose’s neck!) on the left, a peace sign on the right, and a Star of David in the middle. It was colored with glitter glue—“Rolef Shalom” in red, “Peacemaking” in gold, the dove in silver, the star in silver and gold, and the peace sign in green. The peace sign was only green because Abigail was bugging me to put green in there, and I gave up and gave her her way.

Nothin else really happened…