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		<title>Five month aliyah update: kids learning Hebrew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#62;&#62;Are the kids picking up Hebrew well?&#60;&#60; Before we came, everyone said the kids will pick up the language in no time.  &#8221;By Chanuka&#8221;, they predicted, &#8220;your kids will be fluent&#8221;. Nonsense.  Fortunately I didn&#8217;t believe this before I got here or I&#8217;d be wondering where I went wrong.  I think it&#8217;s accurate to say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5908&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yerushalayim themed kindergarten party</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I attended a special party at ds5&#8242;s kindergarten, as the gala event following weeks of learning about Yerushalayim (Jerusalem).   It was only for mothers and the children in the kindergarten, but the day of the party the teacher told me that I was welcome to bring my older girls.  They were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5850&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bar mitzva review</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/bar-mitzva-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be the last of the bar mitzva posts for quite a while &#8211; we won&#8217;t have another bar mitzva for 3.5 years, though we will have a bas mitzva coming up in the fall! On Friday, we rented a car for a few hours so we&#8217;d be able to take all the food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5835&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catering the bar mitzva weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We catered the entire bar mitzva weekend ourselves &#8211; this meant cooking for three meals, plus the kiddush.  Friday night we had 25 people, for the kiddush there were around 200 (lots of kids!), for the main bar mitzva meal we had about 80, and for shalosh seudos (the third Sabbath meal), we had under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5837&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ds13&#8242;s big surprise</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/ds13s-big-surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to upload the very fun video of this special surprise for ds13, and waited until dd17 was available since I wanted her help with editing it before posting.  Unfortunately, tonight she told me when she loaded the video along with all of the pictures from the bar mitzva onto her computer, there was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5826&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A day of bar mitzva preparations</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/a-day-of-bar-mitzva-preparations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today has been a busy day from the minute I woke up! My mom was scheduled to arrive at 5:30 am today, but we don&#8217;t have any way to get to the airport that early.  The trains run through the night, but buses don&#8217;t, and from our city, we have to take a bus to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5822&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Government funded playgroup for Israeli 3 year olds next year</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/government-funded-playgroup-for-israeli-3-year-olds-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning my husband came home with our mail &#8211; our mailbox is about a five minute walk away, in a direction we don&#8217;t usually go in, so we check it about once a week. Thanks to my new subscription to the Shaar Hamatchil, the easy Hebrew language newspaper, I have been an educated Israeli [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5802&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hot water &#8211; at last!</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/hot-water-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a couple of wonderfully rainy weeks here.  This does come along with some potential downsides when you&#8217;re used to free solar energy! The laundry hasn&#8217;t been easy to stay on top of, despite having two freestanding racks that can be kept indoors since I posted about living without a dryer.  But the bigger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5818&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bar mitzva plans</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/bar-mitzva-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve hardly written anything about our bar mitzva preparations, and it&#8217;s just a week away now! Here are our basic plans: we&#8217;ll be having a meal on Friday night for family and any guests who are coming from out of town.  That will be around 25 people, so not a major crowd.   Then Shabbos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=5809&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is it fair to have children closely spaced?</title>
		<link>http://oceansofjoy.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/thoughts-on-ideal-spacing-between-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avivah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started writing this post over a year and a half ago, and I had to smile when I recently checked my drafts file, since so many of the topics that I wrote about then are still things I think about! There&#8217;s a lot of strong opinion on the topic of ideal spacing of one&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceansofjoy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9739677&amp;post=530&amp;subd=oceansofjoy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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