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Lizrael Update: Life in Israel: boys will be boys in flower crowns
Israeli kindergartenslove crowns.
This is the first year I’ve been personally exposed to the Israeli flower garland thing. In Hebrew, . Kids in gan and early elementary school wear these pixie crowns for birthdays, celebrations, ceremonies.
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Dateline: 2013-05-13 1:46pm -07:00T (78 words)
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Lizrael Update: Fifty-Two Frames: Imperfect
Week 19: Imperfect
Screw this.
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Dateline: 2013-05-13 2:46am -07:00T (4 words)
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Lizrael Update: When the kids had a sleepover
Before kids’ bedtime last night, just for the hell of it, I offered Bebe to sleep on the pull-out bed from under Koala’s bottom bunk. Usually she sleeps in her crib,adjacentto the massive bunk bed, which has served mainly as a hulking piec...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 3:16am -07:00T (205 words)
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Lizrael Update: On Jews, Jerusalem, Women and Walls
Note: Reflections based on my rare February and March 2013 trips to the Kotel. Based on today’s news, I figured today’s as good as any to post.
I’ve been to the Kotel, the Western Wall, way too many times in the past year. Previously, ...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 5:01am -07:00T (318 words)
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Lizrael Update: Israeli “Who’s on First”
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Dateline: 2013-05-08 4:16am -07:00T (74 words)
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Lizrael Update: The one where we lose our pet snail
It was a dark and rainy day… oddly, since it was May 3rd in the Middle East.
We had piled into the car, giddy about the surprise rain, and drove to the nearby nursery to pick up new flowers and herbs for our modest mirpeset garden. The kids were d...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 5:31am -07:00T (226 words)
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Lizrael Update: Fifty-Two Frames: Perfect
Last Thursday, on a morning walk, I noticed this lil guy on the pavement, off the highway. He (or she?) was just sitting there, taking it easy. Even when I bent down to take a few photographs it didn’t fly away. I decided that chillness served as an...
Dateline: 2013-05-05 2:32pm -07:00T (116 words)
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Lizrael Update: Ka-pow: the Super-simple outdoor Superhero birthday party
Last week we celebrated Koala’s 4th birthday with an outdoor ‘everything Koala loves’ party. Ok, noteverything Koala loves; I couldn’t get a real policeman to breakdance on a firetruck, for instance.
It came out looking more like...
Dateline: 2013-05-05 4:31am -07:00T (368 words)
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Lizrael Update: Fifty-Two Frames: Trees
Week 17: Trees
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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Dateline: 2013-04-29 11:01pm -07:00T (33 words)
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Lizrael Update: Koala update: Four years
Koala,
I love you so freaking much. Sometimes I look at your face while you’re babbling about throwing lions at people or howall your friends’ dads are policemen (somehow?).
I look at your face, the same exact face I watched when you were la...
Dateline: 2013-04-26 7:01am -07:00T (347 words)
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Lizrael Update: Is this Lag-pocalypse? Fire safety events in Israel for Lag Ba’Omer
Are you an Anglo immigrant? Is it sometime around April/May? Have all the branches/wooden planks/crates been mysteriously removed from your neighborhood?
It’s time for the Lag Ba’Omer nag!
Nah. This year I have some praise. Turns out fire depa...
Dateline: 2013-04-25 4:31am -07:00T (254 words)
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Lizrael Update: To the immigrant parents I grew up with:
Dear immigrant parents of childhood friends,
Hi. How are you? Have I told you lately your English is incredible?
It was really fun growing up with your kid. Maybe I’m still even friends with your kid. Most of my friends from childhood had immigrant ...
Dateline: 2013-04-24 3:16am -07:00T (483 words)
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Lizrael Update: The day the Praying Mantis came to visit.
It’s fun to come home with the kids and hand your son the house key so he can run ahead and then watch him stare at the front door and step back and look at you from over his shoulder like, ‘Mom, whaaaa-?’
Because he had spotted this guy...
Dateline: 2013-04-23 4:46am -07:00T (149 words)
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Lizrael Update: Fifty-Two Frames: SOOC
Should have been more excited/challenged by this week’s theme but I just wasn’t feeling it this week. Some great shots in the album though, so give a click and check them out:
Week 16: Straight out of Camera
This one’s bugged.
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Dateline: 2013-04-21 11:31am -07:00T (39 words)
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Lizrael Update: Fifty-Two Paragraphs
Sometimes, pretending to be an amateur photographer helps me be creative.
In choosing a photo to submit for this week’s Fifty-Two Frames, I asked my husband about a cheeky idea I had.
“I think you’re a writer, not a photographer.”
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Dateline: 2013-04-21 11:31am -07:00T (212 words)
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