first nite so far

it is currently 9:47 pm. yosef is still awake. i hear him but it sounds like he is actually in his room [not sure if in bed but def. his room]. yosef anbd chavi were put to bed at 7. he and chavi closed the door and we didnt hear from them for a while. adam went up to check on them. they had trashed the room. he put them to bed and chavi was asleep by 745. yos has been running around singing for the past 2 hours. he came down at around 8:30 and i put him back upsatirs thinking that would be the end. but i still heard him so i went up and he had turned on the lights and was reading. but since then he has been at the top of my stairs singing every song he knows. chanukah songs, ani maamin and the wheels on the bus were some that i could make out. ill post tomorrow what time he actually went down. i tihnk soon as i have not heard him since i finished the first few lines. [it could just be he is playing]

Ta slept for 8 hours on the plane.

Chaim locked me in the basement

It is not easy being a single parent

Its tough having to balance school work with the children. Tonight i had to take away mikeys phone because he was texting instead of doing his school work. He screamed at me saying I have to do my school work instead of blogging. If he only knew the trials and tribulations I have to go through for my kinder (what is the singular of kinder).

Last nights post (since I was so busy I didnt have time to do it): I went to my friends wedding (their were more HASC sweatshirts there then suits) and I came a little late so I grapped my seating card and ran into the chuppah (pronunciation: CHOO - PA) and asked around (whispering) to see who was at my table. Everyone was at 49 and I was at 44. I was a little concerned but, IM CHAIM G NOTHING CAN STOP ME, so i proceed to my table with my head held up high and booming with self confidence. Baruch Hashem because I was the only boy at the table (maybe more girls then the library). I double checked the card and thank G-d I did, because I was about to sit in Ms. Chani Gross's seat. oops

big boy bed

i realized that i have not posted in a while, i have commented but not posted. i guess nothing exciting has happend. but have no fear there is an end in sight. i recieved a call a few hours ago from sleeptight bedding. they will be delivering yosef's bed tomorrow. i wonder how tomorrow night will go....

A poopy poem

I walked off the elevator and I gasped, what a shock,

The smell was so bad, worse then a smelly sock.

there was a river floating through the middle of the hall,

and right on top was a little doody ball.

I turned to the security guard and asked what was wrong,

He said the pipe was over flowing and "that all is dong".

Then with a second glance i started to shriek,

I realized from my room it did leak.

Baruch Hashem none of my stuff got too ruined,

Or else to YU i would have been sue-in.

Its now time to sleep and nothing else is doing

But the Rayach Nichoach really is quite soothing.

Wow!

Tzipora Pallock thinks my Chaim jokes are funny. Enough said.......

I guess I could go into the family busines

My midterm today was deadly. I gave it 110% so I guess there is nothing i can complain about. But I was thinking, why am I trying so hard, Why dont I just go in to the family business. There are a lot of tough question I have to ask myself though. Toras Moshe (ToMo) or YGFT (Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five towns. Should I go for the chashov melech route or the humble cool talmif chacham route. Either way, father in laws dont grow on trees so it is back to the library for me.

PS - Isnt it funny either way I have to be in the library (either working on the Father in Law or my classes)

Rochel leah is the shabbos ema

i hope she doesnt eat allk the snacks i put into her tik

Wow! haven't blogged in a while....ACHAH!!!

Me: Rabbi Fogol i think you hate me

R.F. (Rabbi Fogol) Mikey what are you talking about?!

Me: well you gave me a 60 for class participation on Sunday

R.F. we didn't even have school sunday!!!!

Me: ACHAH!!!!!!!!

the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;

Im concerned. I was speaking to a friend of mine with older parents (he is 20 and his mom will be 60) and he told me his mom picked up a new profession. A LIBRARIAN (Ahhhhhhhhh). I can just see mommy saying "what a good idea". Can our mother become the old woman, chain around her reading glasses, shushing 6 month old babies? So i raised my concerns to mommy and she said "I dont think it is for me, but what about a midwife". I guess being mindy's labor coach wasn't enough, she wants a more active role. I cant wait to introduce my future wife to mommy, and explaining she is a midwife.

When I told my friend he responded "Oh my G-d, your going to have so many half brothers". Tzarich Iyun (requires explanation for those of you not yeshivishly inclined.

Visitng Day

Were starting to perepare ma and tas arrival here in the Jacobowitz home. You know the "erev" visiting day feeling? Squeezing out the toothpaste, washing the bath mat, cleaning out the fridge. We did a lot of preperating tonight. (and for those of you asking arent I sick, Mc told me that Im only allowed to be sick for 24 hrs. and my time was up. ) Right now he looks like he jst got of the plane (vehamavin yavin)
Bassie J

Bubby Zeidie Coming

I'm so sick. I think I caught Riki's stomach virus. I was so sick last night and today (MC didnt even go to shul, a first in the jacobowitz home.) RL kept on saying today (w/o prompting) Bubby Zeide coming and then stats jumping up and down. OK , im going back to bed. Gut voch, bassie j

what???

i understood that the rapps family joined the blog. that was inevitable. but now elie? i dont mind im just saying....

ACHAH

Another Dialogue (sometimes you need to post twice in one night)

YU Security: Can i see your ID please?

Chaim G: Are you new here?

YU Security: No

Chaim G: Come on your new here?

YU Security: No, I have been here since 1996.

Chaim G: I have never seen you before.

YU Security: I have seen you before

CHaim G: ACHAH!

And he let me proceed without any more questions (video compliments of Srulii)

Things i wish i could have said today

Girl: can you please be quiet

Chaim: If you want the 4th floor there is no talking so you might be able to study better

Girl: I tried but there are no eats up there

Chaim: how about stern, Im sure there are plenty of seats there.

Next Maysah, in the elevator.

Girl #1: Did you have any finals today?

Girl #2: Yeah my Kashrus final.

Chaim G: Clearly you failed your tznius final (we are still accepting donations to the Gimach).

Is it weird that i feel the need to shave before i go to studying? I think the reason the shiduch crisis exists in the more yeshivish velt (Why is it the Yeshivish Velt vs. The modern orthodox world, why cant we in YU be a velt) is because they dont study in the YU library. There is no age gap here. Any XY will talk to any XX (I'm referring to the male and female chromosomes to show how much i have learnt in college).

PS - Im having trouble with my essay does MC have any open slots in the writing center?

Exciting times in the library

Today was an exciting day in my life. I met Ben Kendal (the star of the movie). I did not really meet him but i walked past him and tried to take a picture with the camera on my phone. There was a couple by the table next to him and they thought i was trying to take a picture of them. Bad Matzav. Someone called me up today asking if i was dating. I responded that I have been studying in the library a lot, if you guys could only see what goes on in this library. Its Bechinas camp HASC (we even have girls davening Shemone Esrei in between the book shelves).

Got to go back to studying

Team Chaim Out

Job of the week

Every week the CDC (career development center) has a job of the week. Normally i dont read them but this week it was forwarded to me by Chaim Cohen (not as good as elie but still pretty solid). The job is

PERFUSIONISTS

Perfusionists assist surgeons performing open-heart and other cardiac surgeries. They set up and operate the heart-lung machine that keeps patients alive by pumping oxygenated blood throughout the body while the heart is being operated on. Anyone interested in this profession should have the ability to concentrate for long periods of time

After half a week of studying for finals I think I can conclude both Moshe Chaim and I have the same chance of going into this field.

"Is Ta planning on coming early?"

Those were MC's (shlit"a) words as he opened up the fridge and saw that there was nothing in it. I told him I was saving up for Ta and thene he responded "Is Ta planning on coming early." Don't wory were not completly starving yet (Im just liquidating the freezer.) OK, bs"h Hashem (and Ta) will provide.

I visted Bubby and Zaidy. Esther loves Zaidy, its really cute.

Hope everyines enjoying the snow.

Basya J

Chaim Days till Purim

I dont know if you know (that I know that you know) but Purim is kind of a big deal in Shaalvim. The mifarshim bring down that Yom Kippur is Yom Kippurim, a day like purim. Rav Hutner talks about all the kiddushah that encompasses the day. SO as a result there is a countdown to Purim with some strategic marks along the way. One of those marks was two days again when in gimatriah it was Yayin days to purim and to day is another one of those strategic marks, IT IS CHAIM DAYS TILL PURIM. So if anyone is in the heights please stop by my room for a Frabregen good time.

snow day

uncle mikey was champion of the year yesterday. he played in the snow for over an hour with sunshine and yos. here are some pic.

Whats before surprise bart B?

Surprise part A. BH everyone had a really nice time despite the snow and we have plenty of pictures of the snow outside.

i sent e/o pictures, lkacod shabbos

Busy Week

Motzei Shabbos -Rbtzn. Katz
Sunday night - chazura shuir chanukah party
monday night - wechter party sponsered by the gross's
tues nigth- latzas bas mitzvah (roch threw up all over the fanciest ppl's car)
wednes day - reuits partys
thursday night - nervous break down and screamed at mc
friday night - cheskin and daniel + four boys

i would post my menu for shabbos (chaim, dotn worry, its chicken soup this shabbos) but i hardly started cooking. if i dont get a chance to post tom. whioch i probally wont b/c im cooking with my 2 helpers

have a great shabbos

Movie Idea: Lamed Vav, the hidden tzaddikim of Yeshiva University

Now that finals are coming and I am going to" swap notes" to get all my notes I am starting to wonder who writes all these notes. I am suggesting a movie idea to track them down. For example: Ben Kendel has 56 pages of beautiful notes on Modern Jewish history or Etan Berman 36 pieces of art on Bible. I have never met either of these men but if they only knew the difference they are making in my life. The movie is to track them down, to let them know the difference they are making in the lives of many Young Yidden in Yeshiva University and just as an overall thank you for all there work. If only this movie can be counted a one of my finals.

P.S. I went to show my friend the post and turned to the security guard and asked "are you a security guard?" he responded yes, i then proceeded to ask him if he can "guard" my powerade for me while im gone. With a big grin on his face he said sure. BH for YU security.

for your listening pleasure

chavi and yosef have been putting on chanukah concerts for me for weeks now. here is a tidbit for you to hear.

Mikey and I Hit the Big Apple

What a busy day -

8:50am Drove Mikey to minyan @ DRS - Davening, breakfast and Chanuka Shiur with Rebbe

10:30am Pick up

10:45am LIRR

11:32am - E Train to Union Square. Walked around for 2 hours. We really enjoyed the different booths offering

very unusual gift items. We actually picked up a toothbrush holder for Mikey's bathroom in EY". It's 5

toes and you squeeze your toothbrush between the toes. (I'll ask Mike to post a picture. It's worth a 1,000 words). (I guess we'll have to check for lint occassionally!)

From there we went to KD for lunch (Mike - hot poppers, Me - falafel) We were starving by then and we enjoyed our food immensely. Afterwards we went to an exhibit of artifacts of the Titanic. It was quite fascinating.

We took the 5:32 home and met Ta and Buby and Zaide Gross in KD (King David) and said good-bye. We really enjoyed our day. BTW, did I mention the cologne and 2 AE sweatshirts we bought?

Also, I meant to post a Grossa Yasher Koach to Mindy S. What a fabulous Chanukah party. And Adam - Great DT.

They really need to make the library all boys

I was studying on the fifth floor of the library and i needed a break so i decided to take a walk around the floor. I saw the back of a girls head and it looked awfully familiar. I froze. I panicked. I had no idea what to do. So to make a long story short I made Gavi Unger come up to the fifth floor and check (it wasnt her). Do you think she still reads the blog. Well if she does (I want my sweatshirt back) this can be awkward. I think what we can all learn from this is to not study because you dont know who you might think you bump into.

Needed to chill

Its now 12:49 am. my house is finally quiet. My past 2 partys were a hit.
Mc has chazara shiur tom. Im not sure that its coninceidental that after the 'trifels' his attendance increased by 300%

Got to go to sleep befpre Esther wakes up, Bas

(quick funny story, mc put up a mechitzvah from my living room to the kitchen. In order to exit my house you needed to go through the kitchen. So MC's night seder chavrusa needed to leave early so he left the living room and on his way out thanked me ect. and when he was in the middle of doing so MC screams from across the room ''Bas, who u shmoozing with in the kitchen? and the whole place starts cracking up..
gtg to sleep
bus

Its not so funny

I have an ear infection. I am not on bubble gum medicine. I did not cry. I was not pulling on my ear and my mother realized so she took me to the doctor. It is not Hashem giving me a sign about my maturity. If anyone else has funny lines please post them but i think they were all already said by my "friends".

BH

Bubby and Grandma are on their way home from the Hospital and BH everything is fine. They should be home with enough time to throw senior citizen center food in the oven for a delicious bubby sue Shabbos.

yummy snack

chavi and yos are sitting nicely coloring pictures [and apparently my cabinet doors, discovered that later] in my kitchen this morning. i overhear the following conversation:
c: are you eating flour yos?
y: no im eating sugars
i go over to the pantry and sure enough yos is shoving fistfuls of sugar into his mouth. one may think oh no a kid bouncing off the wall. but bh it was 830 so it was morah miriams problem not mine. on a side note this was not the first time an occurence like this has happened week. on tueday yos was eating baking soda. he was foaming at the mouth.

The mikvah

Today Lakovod chanukah i decided to go to the mikvah. Since this was an on the spot decision i did not bring my own towel but used one of the public towels (eww gross). But you think that the towels were at least washed and dried. Not always. By the mikvah next door to the Ohel i was able to take a rare peak into its inner workings on erev Rosh Hashanah. I looked in the back room where i saw the men putting the towels in the dryer with no washing machine in sight. I guess the recession hit them really bad. May we all be zocheh to use freshly DRIED towels by the mikvah. AMEN

motzai shobbos menu

bas asked me a million times what im making so here it is:
apple cider
garlic knots
tuna
latkes [w/ caviar ala schachar]
lasagna
mini mushroon onion quiches
mini blinies
2 salads [courtesy of ma]
sufganiyot [beverly is buying]
red velvet cupcakes
yodel cupcakes

Sweater Vest

I have another engagement party tonight (am i the only one of my friends not engaged (even friedmans engaged)). So i decided to get dressed up. Im wearing a croc shoes, black pants, an adam shirt, and a sweater vest (see above). I walked into morning seder and everyone had a comment. Cant a man just wear a sweater vest in peace. Is a sweater Vest that big of a deal (its the warmth of a sweater with the freedom of motion like nothing was there). I think NOT!

chanuka party

menu

garlic bead
orange soup
lasagne/spinach lasagne
salmon loaf x2
quiche
ceaser salad
veg salad with honey mustard dressing
cake+ice cream

the jacobwitzs would like to thank the gross's for co-sponsoring the wechter/pilochowsky chanuka party. your plaque will be mailed to you in the mail.
estehers crying gtg

American line working

mc is a gvaldika mispallel ( he was also davening for his life b/c he knew if it doesnt work,,,,,,,,were back!)

Bubby Sue, this ones for you

Roch was going through the laundry tonight. Next thing I know shes wearing multiple multicolored necklaces (that were bought by bubby sue). Cant elaborate, want to keep this blog 'G' rated. G'night. busta.

American line not working

Emergencies? Jokes? Or just need to shmooze? 011-972-2-581-3565

nows the test to see who really loves me

Nothing exciting happening in my life right now

Latza called yesterdy to invite us to a bas mitzvah. Were having the jacobowitz chanukah party monday night. No, I will not be serving cavier on my latkes. I'm still waiting for mc to tell me when his chazara shuirs chanukah part is. im sure hell give me plenty of notice in advance. Thaats it for now. I have to run and get roch from gan, im sure shell be in a great mood.
bas

I'm Sick

Today I went to rite aid (buy their stock because as long as im sick their stock will be skyrocketing). So far I have bought:

Tylenol PM (to help me sleep through the night

Nyquil (so i will have a good morning medicine) (you are not supposed

to mix nyquil and tylenol but i found that out the hard way

BH I'm still here today though)

Theraflu (multi-symptom cold relief, it also says it has warming relief

but i havent felt it yet)

Cold eeze (the large lady helping me in rite aid told me to buy lemon

and honey flavor because "that stuff is good for you when you

have a cold, you know it clears up all that stuff", i think she

just told me to buy that flavor because no one else was)

Ludens (same thing as coldeeze but they taste good so they probably

dont work as well)

Saline Nasal Spray (i leaned my hear back and squeezed the bottle as

hard as i can, then proceeded to caugh, gag, sneeze, drip and

just chloch for the next half an hour)

Thermometer (the type that goes in your mouth)

Advil (mommy told me to buy this)

Entemans cookies (for the neshama)

May I be zocheh to feeling better b'karov mamish

rumbles

after a long fustrating morning i finaly got rumbles one year old pic taken. to view them go to www.picturethiskids.com. go to recent photos and you will see a mispelled version of my name. click on it and you will see how freakin cute rumbles is.

I stepped in poo

Thank G-d i was wearing shoes

Personal Chef

Today for lunch i made pizza with: sauce (the fancy kind, because us Gross's are very fancy), cheese, we then made an equator thing down the middle, on Mommy's side: cut up broccoli, and veggie pepperoni (experiment #1), on the favorite child's side: half of it just sauce, on the other half: cheese, garlic powder, onion powder, crushed red pepper, Italian seasoning, pickles (experiment #2), and hearts of palm. (experiment #3) thats all for now, may hashem grant all your wishes, and listen to your tefillahs good bye............

What a shabbos!

V'hamvin Y'avin.

Sacks-a- tone '09

This shabbos I had the Zchus of spending shabbos with Rav Sacks shlita (aka The Rosh Yeshiva). We davened in his shul and got put up with random families in the community (Eitan Buchbinder and I shared a basement of an empty house and forgot the code but that story is for another time). Friday night The Rosh Yeshiva sat in the middle of the table and i happened to be sitting a one end and our shiur captain Rafi Abraham was sitting at the other. We were all enjoying our soup when Rafi turns to The Rosh Yeshiva and says "You know Chaim has a very creative name for the shabbaton" and the entire table (already cracking up) turns to look at me. I look back at Rafi with a straight face and respond "I'm not sure exactly what it is Rafi, by any chance do you remember" when everyone continued to lose it. I left him out there for a good minute until i was worried their was no blood left in the rest of his body being that his face was so red and I explained to Rav Sacks it was called the Rav Sacks-a-tone. On cue he turns to his wife and says "We have a leibidig bunch this year". I was just glad i was able to add something to the shabbos.

PS - In the Q&A session at the end i asked The Rosh Yeshiva about Shidduch Vision, he first wanted to know what was wrong with a phone and remarked "I guess it is great if all you care about is the externals"

Great shabbaton all around more highlights will follow

What Do Yeshiva Bachrim Do After MIshmar

Flash Back From Shaalvim Thursday Nights with me Pruss and Shteingart

Did anyone loose anything?

If you did, its probally in Esther P's mouth. B''H EP has really started to crawl this week. I have found many things in her mouth (the brown part of the onion, a peice of glass) the only thing that cant fit in her mouth is Rochel. Were having a busy shabbos.

menu-
tri clor gefilta
orange soup from the freezer
chicken
chulent
apple kugel
yerushalmi kugel
salad
yeshiva desert made from richs whips

have a great shabbos. i would say i love u all but i cant keep track whose following the blog.

busta

az

yosef for some reasons is obsessed with this little toy. he walks around all day with it. until last week it had no name. friday morning he wakes up and keeps asking for AZ. i have no clue what he is talking about. then he pulls out this toy from the toy box and says "heres az!". coincidential that we saw the rapps family the day before? i think not. chavi has a doll named baby tatty and now yosef has a mini lemon figure named az.

8 months

(read in Rabbi Feiners voice and picture the hand motions and beard stroking) And their I was walking around YU and I saw a sign with a picture of the eloscious Rabbi from The White Shul, Congergation Knesseth Israel of Far Rockaway and I became intrigued. I went and took another look and lo and behold he was giving a shiur tonight L'zecher nishmas Rotty (Eight months to the day). SO how could one go and pass up an oppurtunity like this. So lo and behold i walked in and enjoyed the shiur. A little piece of torah lizecher nishmas - He explains how the word Yavan is made up of three leters - Yud, Vav, Nun and how the Vav represents spirtuality so what yavan does is take the Yud (spirtuality) bring it down to earth (Vuv) and then bury it (Nun) while the jews are just pure Yud which is madu up of the letters - Yud, Vuv, Dalid - So the Jews take the Yud bring it to earth (vav) but then try to spread the knowledge (how the dalid goes out. May we all be zocheh to spread the torah that was lost with the loss of one of the great neshamas of klal Yisroel and may his Neshama have an Aliyah.

PS - me and my friends are going out for lizechar nishmas shwarma

בלי עין הרע

Tonight (1030- 1) I went with my friend to the apple store because he wanted someone to go with him so he can get a new laptop (Batya your laptop is on the floor in my room). I walked in and all the sales people were wearing red shirts. Do you think they are wearing red shirts because they are scared of Yetzar Hara's because their computers are so much better then windows computers. Just some food for thought.

I'm sick

i have strep :( rabbi (black hair) kramer came over to see how i was

Be mekayim the mitzvah of Bikur Cholim

Mike has strep.

a living petri dish?

is it only me or do i dedicate atleast one post a week to informing everyone which one of my children are sick? well everyone has colds. rumbles sounds awful and chavi keeps telling me her ear hurts. awesome. to be fair i was warned that the first year a kids starts school they get sick more. which means that hopefully next year ill be off but then the following year when rumbles starts i get to do this al over again.

walked to geula today.....a preview for this upcoming summer bz"h

Today I walked to geula. A store was have a mivtzah on hooks and my whole house looks like one big coat rack. there are now hooks in back of all my doors. I calculated from my walk today that it will the me 46 minuts and 56 seconds to walk to mommy this summer. (not including my stops for ice kaffe)

My kids are sleeping, need to go and maintain order in my house.

Welcome bubby sue. what a zchus to have you join are blog. maty you be zoche to another 50 years of blogging.

bassie j

New Rule: No making puns, especially with the word Gross in it.

But a quick Pun story. In the dale carnegie course given in shaalvim at the end of choref Zman (the long period of time in between sukkos and Pesach when you do most of your flipping out in israel), one of the "games" we played was we had to think of a clever way to get other people to remember our name. So I (chaim gross) came up with this. Close your eyes and picture a boat of fresh russian (they didnt have deodorant in russia) immigrants pulls up to ellis island. And off walks an extra large (double stuffed) man and his beard had even more food in it then Sruli's after thanksgiving. And there was a booger hanging out of his left nostril that was already starting to get a little crusty (Putting Yosef Schachars crusty nose to shame). He turns to you and says "Chello, Chi am gross looking" and that is how you can remember my name. This is a creative exercise we can use to break out of our shells and also we can use these techniques to help us remember other peoples names. Please comment below with creative ways we can remember your names. (this is one of my better posts)

We get a GROSSa Mazel Tov

Mikey finished the last of his BM thank you cards. What was the final motivation you may be wondering? Well, I'll tell you. If he wasn't finished by Sun. midnight, he owed us $5.00 a day. Also, if you're wondering what Mikey would like for chanuka .....

BUbby

I made Bubby Sue a google account (bubbysue1@gmail.com). What's the chance we can teach her how to sign in and learn to comment? And now that i know you are reading this bubby please call me so we can set up a time when i can teach you how to use it.

PS - if you want to teach yourself how to use it, your password is who you love the most in the entire world.

bubby sue

i spoke with bubby last nite. she wrote a comment but then didnt realize you need a google account to post. so she knows what to do just needs a google account. i tried walking her through it, not sure if it worked. we shall see. in other news, rumbles says "hi". its very cute.

We Hey'd

And that was it. I was talking to Johnie Fruchter (a great guy, single, and on a scale of one to coby milgrim i would give him a Daniel Elefant) and she was talking to her friend across at a different table and our eyes met each others (not in a romantic I Love You way but a normal way) and we said Hey. That was it. Great wedding. You know it is a good wedding when no one wants to put their arm around you at the end because your so sweaty.

Do you think "cough cough" reads the blog, she knows it exists.

I am more than happy to teach anyone how to read/post/comment and I think I can handle the job of teaching Bubby Sue. DO we have anyother readers then the immediate mishpacha and anonyrapps?

PS - Cough cough's mom loves watching the guy I am dancing with (because she wouldnt be looking at me, right?)

lunch recap

just so bassie doesnt feel left out. we had a very nice lunch sponsored by ta and ma by the coffee bar. my kids took turns being nuts. ta and i had salads, ma a baked potato, chaim a sandwich, mikes a pizza and soup and my kids shared an egg. chaim pretended to be in hatzalah to impress the table of 16 year old girls next to us. thats really it.

Lonely Traveler

EVERYONE: PLEASE COMMENT BELOW WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING ARGUEMENT:

Mikey- so Ta are we going to Israel in July?

Ta- yes. your going right after camp

Mikey- wht do you mean I'M going

Ma- well I'm already going to be there fixing up the apartment

Mikey- so how am i going to get to Israel?

Ta- your going to go by yourself

Mikey- are you kidding me!!!!!!!!!!.........

The end of the story is that they werren't kidding, and now im going to be sitting on a plane with some smelly Lebavitch guy who is going to be making brachas the whole ride (AMEN!)

What are they going to talk about by my Aufruf?

I was by Aryeh Schlusselbergs aufruf today and they told many fascinating stories. It was a mixture of stupid things he said and great middos. What are they going to talk about by my Aufruf?

Also, I was walking with Adam Schachar today when we bumped into Cousin Sandy (not related to Father Thomas and distantly related to Cousin Matty) and she was walking with one of her friends. When she sees me and Adam she is so excited and introduces us "this is my cousin-in- law Adam Schachar and this is my VERY CHOSHAV cousin chaim". On a scale of one to Moshe Chaim how choshav am I? i guess out of the entire mishpacha adam is the only not choshav one (Mikey is bistama choshav, being my brother is very choshav). Thats all for now.

PS NO ONE GO TO CRAWFORDS (its a new coffee and muffin shop that opened up) TONIGHT "cough cough" IS HAVING A SUPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY TONIGHT!! (i heard some of her friends saying how her neck looked naked and could have used a new nice simple bow necklace)

theres nothing to write about.....

chaim, too lazy to travel to stern?

Meet Your Bashert Over ‘Video Conferencing’ - ShidduchVision, Approved By Gedolim

November 25, 2009

PHOTO LINK BELOW: This past Sunday, together with the Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Malkiel Kotler, Shlita, the venerable Mashgiach, HaRav Matisyahu Soloman, Shlita and HaRav Dovid Weinberger, Shlita, Rav, Cong Shaaray Tefila, Lawrence, NY, Shadchanim and Baalei Batim alike gathered in Lakewood, to celebrate the launch of its first ShidduchVision studio.

ShidduchVision, under the Haskamah of G’dolei HaDor and prominent Rabanim, consists of live interactive video conferencing which enables eligible single men and women who live in distant cities to “meet” one another. Such singles now have the opportunity to get to know each other in the comfort of a ShidduchVision studio, located in a private home in their own city. Sitting in front of commercial grade, high quality and highly secure professional video-conferencing equipment, in a personal and private studio setting, they can have a pleasant meeting, much as they would in person. Up to three such low-cost meetings can be arranged before the couple decides whether travel and meeting in person constitute the right next move.

With studios currently operating in Baltimore and Chicago and with another opening soon in Toronto, Lakewood joins in the effort to further ease the Shidduch situation by alleviating the financial and emotional strain of long-distance dating. In many cases, the expensive and timeconsuming travel discourages people from undertaking to meet a proposed match who lives in another city. Others who do make such efforts become frustrated when the trip proves unsuccessful – which only further increases the likelihood that future suggestions involving travel will be shunned. By providing a low-cost, hassle-free means of introducing singles who live apart, ShidduchVision helps to remove one of the major barriers to successful Shidduchim.

ShidduchVision Lakewood is now open and ready to serve Lakewood singles in facilitating their initial long-distance dates. Shadchanim will continue to suggest Shidduchim in their traditional way, and will be responsible for placing reservations in the studios for their singles. All ShidduchVision studios are also available for Shadchanim to meet singles from anywhere in the world, wherever other such studios are located.

coxsackie

fyi.
me and the boys are no longer contagious!!!! yay!!! we can go to thanksgiving!!

My Girls

Roch -conjunctivites
EP -stomach virus + started crawling today, very exciting.

Night, night. bas

Thanksgiving side dishes

Corn Pudding (from Aunt Suri's website)

Roasted root veggies

Sweet potato pie with marshmellows (per Yosef''s request)

Pineapple bread pudding

Butternut squash and carrot muffins

Borrowed a neighbors computer to blog

It's Bassie J. Long time, no post. Whats going on e/o? Welcome extended mishpacha to the blog. Today I went to my tznuis group, the topic was makeup. The shiala was if make up is meants to extenuate and the concept tznuis is to not cause attention to oneself, why is make up mutar? I leave it to is this chashuva oylam to handel. e/o should place thre comment below.

mikey-shgiach on the grade's, ur cut out for gadlus
chaim--thanx for doing all the leg work for the new computer
mindy-refuah sheleima bekarov
ma-ill speak to u in 3 seconds
ta-ta never checks the blog

thats all for this evning
p.s. ep had diariha and statred crawling
p.p.s roch lost 3 lbs. jk

Bassie J

That fine gentelman over there has sent you ladies a piece of Sgulah Challah

The wedding was BH awesome. It was also greats because i got to see mommy, tati and ... We did not speak one word but for some reason the girl next to her was staring at me for a while (it must have been the shave, it mamish looked like a baby's bottom). I did speak to her friend and she said BH she is doing fine and i asked if i coule send over a piece of sgulah challah (she laughed and im sure the message got passed on). Now on the topics of weddings i have nothing to do in the middle, does anyone have any good ideas? thats it for now, im very tired need to shower and have a chemistry midterm tomorrow. Good night team

PS Mikey calm down there is nothing so personal on this blog and if there is its about me

PPS We need to get Bus a new computer just so she can get beck in the action

Can't think of a title...

3 ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Got highest in the grade on my science test (116)

2. Got highest in the grade on book report (80/85)

3. No offense to the rapps family but....... I think this website is way to public now, I will no longer publish until I know this site is secure for the most part so this is my goodbye....

Chollel - Chaim's Kollel

Winter Break 2010: Tentative plans for winter Break, Fly out thursday afternoon/night and crash in a cheap motel. Spend friday wondering around San Fransisco and spend shabbat with random families in the San Fransisco community (CJF will hook us up). Saturday night beg the families to let us stay an extra night and on sunday go to alkatraz. Sunday afternoon leave to yosemite park where we will stay in a log cabin with a Massive Hot tub. For day activities we will go skiing one day, snow shoeing one day, and hiking the last. Then leave back to NY on the red eye Thursday night. Oh and the best part ELIE is coming (oh chaim, why cant you be more like Elie). A more detailed schedule - http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AQ2jt3Dw7wYxZGY5enhyazhfN2hudmZwaGhm&hl=en

Does anyone else have any good ideas?

ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!

i cant find my book... Astela definitely took it.......

New 5T G'mach

After Mikey left last night to Max's BM we couldn't decide what to do. Hashem answered our dilemna. Alan Shapiro called a minute later and invited us to a lecture on proper posture given by Aryeh. Chaim, Ta and I are thinking of a dating G'mach. If you need unique, different and exciting ideas of what to do on a Motzei Shabbos, just call us. We're filled with stimulating and interesting places to go.

Hey Mike, it could be worse

I was sitting around with a bunch of friends on shabbos when i was in formed that a guy a year older then me parents just had a baby boy (MAZEL TOV), and he isnt even the oldest. Lets get some perspective, the gap between the oldest and youngest is 24 years and between the second to youngest and youngest is 1o years. The father will be able to get a senior citizens discount on the bar mitzvah and the machatanim can easily be one of their sons friends. If mikey goes with mommy to crawfords for latte's on sundays (maysah shehaya) then what do you think this kid is going to get.

When i come back in 120 years forget about being mikey i wanna be this kid.

PS - Im seeing Cough Cough tomorrow ill let everyone knows how it goes

PPS - for all the new followers, whatever happens on the blog stays on the blog

does nobody love avromi???

why hasnt anyone volunteered to take rumbles to the dr????? on a side note. chavi was insaely cute by her ballet classes this morning. she looked at herself in her tutu for 20 min in the mirror.

For The Tenth Time

Im sitting here with Chaim G and he is teaching me how to post for the tenth time. iyh i will be able to do it by myself next time.

B-J-E!!!!!!!

have my bje test this sunday. its 4 hours long! ahhhhh! im gonna have a heart attack. anyways im sorry mindezz but theres nothing 2 make fun of you about so in a way thats a good thing :)

who is available on dec. 31?

for those who did not hear about my morning yesterday here it is in short:
avromi was up from 3:18-5:15. he was kind enough to wake up his sibling at 4:45. bh they stayed in bed tll 5:20 when there tzaddik father took them downstairs. i went back to sleep as i had been up with rumbles. since rumbles has had 3 ear infections since succos i had to take him to the ent. he fell asleep the exit before we were supposed to get off. i called the dr. to see if they were running on time, she informed me that they were, but i had 15 min of paper work to fill out so at 10:10 i woke rumbles so we would have 20 minutes to fill out paper work. it took a whole 4 minutes to fill out the papers. at 11:46 i asked the lovely receptionist if i was going to be seen any time soon. to sum it up the doctor came in at 11:57 and i was paid, made my next appt., got avromi in the stroller and was out the door by 12:13. so if anyone is around on the 31st to take him to his next appt it would be greatly appreciated.

SRULI! Baruch Haba!

welcome to the blog! Its erev sgabbos here, just wanted to wish e/o a shabbat shalom from the j's.

Things waiters won't tell our family:

PLEASE NOTE: Mindy, i couldn't think of something for you, so I'm sorry........

Batya- If you ask a waiter how many calories are in a particular dish, they won't tell you, even if they know. they will say "all that information is online.

Ta- If you make a big fuss about your soup not being hot enough they'll just take your spoon, and put it under really hot water, so it seems hot, but it's just as hot as wok tov's soup.

Ma- If your dessert says "homemade" it probably is, but from a bakery 3 miles away.

Chaim- If your on a date, and all of a sudden other servers come by to refill your water, or clear your plates, assume that they're listening.

Line of the Year

I really always liked her -mom

this is being posted by ta. am to busy trying to figure out my blackbery to create my own account so i"m just using moms.

OSCAR? WHO?

I paid a shiva call to Robby (Phylis's son) today. I was one on one shmoozing/reminiscing with him. Suddenly, the two love birds in the cage started making a racket and Robby told me Phylis got the love birds after Oscar died. "Weren't they Mark's?" he asked. "No" I said, then thinking to myself, just one of the few pets we tried that didn't work. Pimples????

2 good yosef stories

1. yosef walks into the kitchen this morning with a toy microphone and says, "mommy, look uncle mikeys bar mitzvah". he then starts to sing, "gimmin tov u mazel tov"!!! it was very cute.
2. for this weeks project yosef came home with a well. [for those of you who were in shul and heard the parsha should understand the project]. anyways we are at the shobbos table eating soup and yosef asks adam for his well. now i, with my motherly instincts knows where this is going. adam clearly does not as he handed yosef his well. yos takes him well and begins ladeling his soup into his well.

smileys at costco :)

we went shopping at costco, and as we were getting our receipt checked i asked the man for a smiley face, he gave me a weird look like "arent u a little 2 old 4 a smiley face" kinda look, but i got my smiley! anyways had my interview 2day and............................. I GOT IN TO DRS!!! YAY!!!!!

Chupah Singers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QBQT2a05ks
My chavrusa has recently became the front man for the critically acclaim YU Acapella group The MAccabeats (its a play off the Yu sports team the maccabies and the word beat as in tempo to music). Does he have what it takes to oust Adam as the official Gross family Chupah guy? (this does not mean i am getting engaged tomorrow, Batya no need for a diet and mindy you dont need to go to kick boxing twice a week). Me and my friends are also working on a spoof (if you lok at all the singers hand motions they are gishmak (look for the fist pump of the front man five seconds in. Also in the back if you look carefully you can see Pruss (of flatbush choir fame). Thats all for now and BH shabbos went great with robbie. speak to yall later

esther front teeth are coming in togethrt

JK! it looks like there is going to be a space! bj

check your mailboxes for the pics from the party of the year. i know i havent posted in a while but my computer is dying. iyh will blog tomorrow.

Sruli made it to the big time

http://projectrecharge.blogspot.com/2009/11/reality-television.html

Good Housekeeping in Eretz Yisrael

Mikey informed me that he didn't work hard a whole semester in school, to be able to go to Israel early, just so I could do Good Housekeeping. No way!!

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update! Motzei shabbos parshas Chayei Sara

Esthers fever broke, chasdei hashem. Hope everyone enjoyed chaims hasc camper plus rabbi and son from israel, shalom. bj

Late night at the J's

Sorry that its been a while. My computer isn't working well, (i mean m.s. and a.s.'s computer that is 8 years old is on its way to the garabge dump) Anyway, tonight i borrowed m neighbors mac to work for suri. Chaim, i couldnt have done it without you. you should be zocheh to find your zivug b'karov. esther has 39.3^c (39.4 is 103^f). r.l. is sleeping in mc's bed. mc is sleeping (no he is not a lamed'vavnik like srulir rapps) and rl is giving him a dental examination.. thats it for tonight. i hope i make shkiah tomoroww. love mommy. bj

Bubby sue, we love you

I was by the Feller's on shabbos and Dina Feller says to me "oh so i heard Chaim has a cough cough" I'm like ahhhhh............ she sad "oh i heard she is very nice do you like her?" I was shocked and I asked her how she knows and s said: (fill in the blank)

Where in the world is Sruli Rapps?

http://kolleltamid.blogspot.com/

Devorah meet bubby sue, buuby sue meet Devorah

Carrie this is Bubby Sue, Bubby Sue this is carrie

You were able to cut the tension with a knife. I approached with my "friend" and bubby saw from a distance and the smile went from one ear to another. I introduced her and bubby continued to monologue for the next five minutes. Then turned to zaidy and asked"do yo have anything to say" then turned to carrie and said he never has anything to say and continued to talk. As we were walking away i already saw her dialing mindy. BH i have a mishpacha like ours. The wedding was great. KIT bye

Davis Renov Yeshiva High School For Boys

Very cool open house looking forward to 4 awesome years, a lot of new (and strange) people. I think for extra curricular im gonna take either debate team, sushi class, or cooking, the only reason im taking cooking is because you get to eat the food you make, but they said you should sign up for that early because that's their most popular class, and the best part is whatever we don't eat is leftovers in the Gross house! yay!

Baruch Shepitrani

Just reached major milestone! I just attended my last HALB Melava Malka.

Blogging from new PC

A Gutten Erev Shabbos to all:

I haven't checked the blog in a couple of days. Thanx for all your posts. Chaim G. came home last night. Thank you Chaim G. for setting up the new computer. I, too, was done by chatzos and it was a good thing I was; cracked a tooth and had to run to Krauss then Zaidy D. called that his car overheated and needed to go to Brachs, so I picked up his groceries for him. Got divrei bracha this morning from the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak at Amen. Gave him Chaim and Mikey's names.

Chaim, let's see how long it takes for the bracha to be mekuyam. Have a wonderful Shabbos.

update

i made it with plenty of time to spare. and would have been done earlier had i been able to get a jar open. nice visit today with charles. my children were happy to see chaim g. the kids made very cute projects. check your emails for pics from rumbles herbrew bday party.

chatzos

i am going to try and make chatzos. who thinks i can do it?

Any Ideas

Does any one have any ideas for me and "cough cough" tomorrow? the pressure is starting to build as it gets colder and the options drop considerably. I say we just go to a bar and get wasted (any volunteers to be our designated driver). PLEASE HELP ME. comment any ideas. And i think im going to go with the tag cookbook for Chanukah to make sure she knows her role early on. just as a follow up Richard Joel said nothing, but he sounded so good saying it (on a scale of one to Obama how good of a speaker is he, i would give him a Rabbi Frand)

mommy wanted me to post this: uncle jay eating chineze food at zaidys house, i dont get it either but whatver makes mommy happy.......

Hi my name is Chaim can We be friends?

Today we have a town hall meeting with President Richard Joel shlita. My goal is try to meet him and take a picture and then hopefully be able to post it. I will be giving constant updates on where the Jewish future is heading (if he doesnt know then who does). stay tuned for updates.

PS whats orange soup?

Shabbos Menu..shoudl i add any extra settings?

Whats friending on facebook? Mindy and Mikey i think ur old enough and mature enough to figure this one out on your own.
Gefilta fish
(orange soup -fri. night)
chiken on the bone/Schnitzel
deli roll (deli from hakers)
potato kugel
cherry noodle slice
string beans/salad
koksh cake
A gutten shabbos, bj

????

midelz you know i read this blog also, so your gonna have 2 stick with talking behind my back, that one seems to work out better........

I'll tell you......... NOW MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!!!!

the reason im not friending you is because im secretly going out with, sarah, shira, and devorah all at the same time, so adam, get chavi and yosef to learn a new song!

At least you didn't friend me

Maybe Mikey doesnt want you seeing him talk to "sneeze sneeze". If I had facebook i dont think i would let you be my friend either. And in other news this week is the annual chabad shlichim get together. Maybe a family trip? Please comment if your in

shut down

should i be insulted that mikey wont be my friend on facebook? hesays he wont be friends with family. is that shady? what do we think mikey is hiding?

NCSY 09 continued

Erev shabbos we had a concert to get us ready for shabbos, it was lot of fun (im not an ambi-dancer I can only dance putting my right foot forward not my left). Davening was very nice then afterwards we (the advisors) got split up on to different tables to sit with the kids for the meal. As the kids came out they all went to the advisors they already knew. I stood up on my chair and started to scream "really cool advisor over here" and they came flocking like a really thirsty dog to a big bucket of water. The meal preceded uneventful followed by divrei torah (which featured swear words for some odd reason hopefully will be explained on a later post). Then we had a tisch for the next two hours which featured anna bikoach (click on the link) like you have never heard it before. We walked back afterwards in the pooring rain and lost one of the kids along the way and had to search for him for an extra ten minutes. Hung out for a few hours then passed out for another fun filled day.

"C" is not coming to thanks giving dinner

we dont need to discuss "C"s channukah present yet

We can blog about other things besides for "c"

bye

Todah Raba, Batya

Thanx for posting Zaide's phone number. I love reading your posts. Is everone aware that Mikey is signed up for Lev Leytzan? This is a year long program to train to be a medical clown. He trains for a year, then he and his troupe will be performing for the next for years in hospitals, nursing homes etc. The group has alos performed in Eretz Yisrael and Eastern Europe. Ta and I are really proud of the committment Mikey has made. We wish him much hatslacha in his training and may he bring much simcha to those whose lives he will touch, IYH".
Aunt Suri would like to know who will be joining her this Thanksgiving. Gitty is fluctuating between the first night of Chanuka (Motzei Shabbos) and the next morning brunch. We need feedback.
Mikey has a BJE training course tomorrow and will be taking them IYH" Sunday. Hatslacha, Mike! Mike also has DRS open house on Sunday. Could this really be?
We wish Chavi hatslacha in Bassis Yaacov. (How many years til they honor Zaide?)
Refuah Sheleimah to EP.
Boo - regarding the chanukah gift -what about the TAG cookbook I just got you and Min? Coffee machine?
Judy dropped off Mikey's BM gift yesterday - A takeout menu box to hold all the menus. How cute?
Need to check on the chicken soup. Who needs?
Mom

Reminder, zeides b-day!!!

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not my genes, words of wisdom from R.m.c.j.

Esther literally did not stop crying the entire day., This time she actually has an excuse, one bottom tooth just cut through the gums and the other is almost there. Totalling four teeth all on the bottom. No, chaim, there are no spaces. M.C. came home after not being with E the entire day and after 3 min. and 45 secs. of holding her he hands me esther and says, this is not my genes. Deep insites by mcj.

what to get "C" for chanuka

Good morning to those in America. It now 3p.m. here and its pouring rain outside. My apartment is quite chiily, im thinking abt going to rechavia to warm up. E.P. is starting to slither around, R.L. is shepping nachas, Roch's giving me a look like "I taught her how to do this,ma, i take all the credit." Anyawys, the olam s/d leave a comment on what ma s/d get "c" for chanuka. (BTW, the jacobowitz are holding out for a camerna. Nehiyeh bekesher (I started ulpan this week) shalom

Playing with fire?

i just realized that if cough cough reads this blog were in big trouble, and ariel axelrod walks over 2 me and sez "team gross!'' im like how do u no about that...... anyways long story.......... and btw he now knows chiam has a girlfriend

baysis yaakov

sunshine had her bby interview today. she was delicious and participated very nicely. the highlight of the interview was when we had our meeting with rabbi hiller. rabbi hiller told us that they have very few spots open for her class but we shouldnt worry b/c they are saving a spot for us. that "b'zchus avos" we got in. he said the zchus avos is not ta but rather zaidy melvin. he told me that i should relay that to zaidy. i told him that zaidy would probably be happier if his zechus got chavi into halb. he laughed.

Long time no blog

Wow so many stories and so short to blog! Friday was pretty boring, we went to a mall in Columbos. Whats very intresting about stores in a mall is that they decided to set their atmosphere by the music they play. Well me and my friend decided to take advantage of this music and dance. (we got up off of our thing and danced till we felt better). In every store we danced according to their music. slow dancing in Banana Republic, Provocatively in Abercrombie, Surfed in the displays at hollister, and waltzed in Brooks Brothers. Iyh the videos should be following soon. Stay tuned for more updates on NCSY Fall regional 2009 (best regional ever).

Steve Madden engadged?

on central 2day steve madden was at jildors and all the ladies were taking engadement poses with him. you know like were you are 10 feet apart from them and lean in right until your shoulders touch (chas v'shalom!)

Thank you

Thanx for the visit. The kids are great! Team Mikey - Kadoos! Chaim said he is having a great time. Boo - we thought we'd hear from you tonight! Gut Vocht. Mom

gut voch

mikey complained that no one blogs. so this one is for him. the schachar family had a lovely shobbos. we had 6 bachurim for dinner last nite which was a very nice and leibedig meal. the schachar children were extremely nice and for the first time this week slept past 5:30!! yay!!! now tomorrow we need them to sleep past 7 [which is technically 8]. unlikely but we can hope. we walked to ma and ta this afternoon which was very nice. the kids played nicely with uncle mikey. yos was a bit loony as he has a cold or is possibly teething and didnt nap. adam and i are currently debating what to eat for melave malka. any suggestions? ok thats it from woodmere.

Team Mikey Atteeeeention!

Chavi, Yosef, and I went outside to play with leaves, and we had a blast! when we came back inside Yosef, in a triumphant voice screams: "TEAM MIKEY"!!!!!!

Team Mikey Atteeeeention!

I have nothing funny to post

I have nothing funny to post so I wasnt sure if I should post. Just wanted to wish e/o a good shabbos. Rochels shnot is starting to turn depper shades of green. I hope she doent become sick over shabbos. Yesterday was the first day she wore long sleeves to gan. Its starting to get cool. Esther P is on the floor next to me eating roch's crock. gtg

Blog Rating

I seriously don't know who writes the funniest blog. They are ALL so yummy! On the one hand, I think we should rate the comments. On the other hand, some of the members, perhaps may think, this has to do with their popularity and /or how much we love them, which of course, is not true.
Today is Rochel Emanu's Yarzheit. I went to hear Rebetzin Jaeger and Rebetzin Heller speak. When R' Jaeger spoke about Rochel Emanu and Hashem's promise to her, "Vashavu Banim Ligvulam" I couldn't help but think that our purchase in Rechavia, is in some small way, a fullfillment of Hashem's promise to Rachel Emanu. (and, yes, I had tears in my eyes). 22 hours til chatzos! Love you.

Team Chaim Attention, Our team is Number ___

You know you have made it big when you are 8th grade school bus hock. iyh for the rest of the mishpacha.

class trip

i went on a class trip with my students today. i had a great time. i am totally wiped but it was worth it. i just wanted everyone to know that i felt incredibly old for many reasons.
1. sitting on a school bus made me nausea
2. the radio was on i didnt know a single song [my husband would argue thats a frum thing]
3. one of my students asked me if i knew danielle whitman. she thought i was her age. i know that means she thought i was younger then i am. but still, it made me feel old
4. we were watching a presentation at the museum and it was going thru a time line. they finally reach the year 1999. and my students got all excited b/c they were finally talking about a time when they were actually alive.

such big trouble

chaim g decided it would be a good idea this past summer to stock my house with food for himself, less i run out of food and he has nothing to eat. amongst the things he bought and never ate was a case of 100 ices. i am upstairs this morning feeding rumbles breakfast when yos comes in asking for a paper towel. i ask him why and he says, "for the ices, chavi and i are drenched". [yes, he know the word drenched, it is a word i use to describe him often]. i go downstairs to check out the scene. c and y are sitting there making "projects" with the ices and some of the ices are leaking everywhere. solid!! who thinks chaim should come home and sit with carpet cleaner and spot clean my carpet????

homework helpline

I feel like a lot of times that a lecture like that can maye scare someone away from marriage. Not every marriagre is a disaster. People do live happily ever after. Why scare people away?

llI didn'tI didn't know we have a choice of fonts. The head of the HW hotline wants me to attend a lecture Motzei Shabbos entitled, "After the Chuppah". Is anyone interested in going?

Blog Dying?

No one rites anything anymore! and BTW we didnt have c +g 2nite, we had mindys AMAZING hickory chicken, and im waiting fot that orzo rice recipe!

Ta and Blackberry

The jacobowitzs are done eating dinner. I ate chicken that I bought last wednesday (its now tues. night in this country) and M.C. ate a tuna melt. I made it from the reject chunk light tuna that mommy sent to us since no one in "america" would eat it. I was even grossed out when I was making it, the best is m.c. took a bit of his sandwich as his eyes popped out and said "this is delicious." I heard Rabbi Frand also likes Tuna meltz. Its very yeshivish to say meltz. Erev Shabbos I went to get roch roch into her shabbos robe and made a big deal that it was special for shabbos. She is so frum that shes been wearing it every night this week and refuses to wear any other pajams besides for her shabbos robe. I was in Rechavia today. Mommy's frezer still remains empty. Behatzlacha. Bassie J
Mommy- you say abt every shuir that its one on the most inspirational shuirim you head, whats amen doing for Rochel Imenu's yeratzeit?
Ta- is now only speaking to his mishpacha via email
Mindy- tell yoses teacher that he eats brocoli every night for dinner which adds a greenish tint to his shnot
Chaim- I will never be as skinny as "c"
Mikey- I think ur the funniest youngest member of the mishpacha

Oops!

My teacher said that we were able to email him our first paragraph and he would proof read it for us then email us back with suggestions. I first sent it to Cough Cough to proof read then i copied and pasted it into an email for my teacher. I got it back today and seems I forgot to take the "Looks great - youre a better writer than you say you are. Have a Great Day!" at the end of the paragraph. I guess he knows i got someone to proof read it.

Niagara falls, and the hurricane deck, it was freezing and the power of the waterfall ripped my poncho and i got soaked!

Canada was Amazing!!!!! Rainbow made by the mist of niagara falls, at one point we were able to see 3 rainbows!!!!!!!

blog control

this blog is being writen by the cfo of the blog all by himself.btw i forwarded 2 emails without Sandys help.Leftovers for supper b'h Mickeys home so tomorow should be C&G.

possibly the best picture ever? [ok, not avromi, but everyone else].

I win

First some house keeping: Can everyone please have their own name to post under so it is easier to keep track of.

I just got back from my friends wedding. I got a little leibidig (not as leibidig as cousin matty's wedding) and I came back to find this outrage of Adam (bats) questioning someone else's humor. I think the whole who's funny thing in our family is thrown completely out of whack. I was speaking to Cough Cough and she said the two funniest people in our family were Tati and Adam (I just think that is because those are the two people who like her). We should stop judging each other and let everyones posts speak for themselves. If we were judging i think me and Bas are in first. The rest is a toss up.

Is Mindy funny?

Everyone please look at Mindy's comment on Batya's post about Burry. Mindy was cracking herself up the entire time she wrote the comment. Am i the only one that doesn't find it funny? bats

shnotty noses

yosef's teacher is a little scary when it come to runny noses. if yosef's nose is running and it is the slightest shade of green he gets a note sent home saying that kids with runny noses should not come to school. seriously???? his nose will probably be shnotty from now until april [note i did not say pesach as pesach is in the winter this year]. so now i have to figure out tomorrow just how green is yosef's runny nose. im scared of his teacher. on that note chavi thinks she can blow her nose. she is going thru tissues like water [her nose is runny also]. yosef on the other hand thinks his hand is the best tissue and is the dirty shnotty child you see on the street and wonder why he has such a horrible mother who would let him walk around like that.

dont tell mike but we had takeout tonight i wrote this all by myself atm

Arizona and the Global Warming Myth

I dont know if you were all informed but i was planning on going to arizona for a week with my friends for winter break. We were going to go white water rafting, hiking, and just enjoy the great out doors. Little did we know how cold it was going to be outdoors (average of 44 degrees in january). Atleast we dont need to worry about girls needing the gmach. Does anyone else have any suggestions for winter break 2010?

Never eat bran cereal when reading a blog

First, I was eating my bran flakes while I was reading M&C's posts. Please, next time warn me if you are going 2 b funny. Almost choked. Still working on that recipe, and, no, Batya, you can't have my winnings!! Mikey texted me a rainbow from over the falls. Do I need to make a bracha? I just came from R' Kelerman. It was by far one of the best and inspirational lectures I heard in a long time. Fantastic!!! Need to run and make me and Judy sandwiches to take on our road trip. Does anyone need a wall-hanging that looks like a window?
BTW - can someone help Ta out with posting?

I hear it

Going through the FTJT this shabbos mommy saw an add for a Man-O-Manischewitz cook off and decided she wanted to enter. Do you think this queen of the freezer has what it takes to win. Ta told me he cant wait till carrie starts coming over for meals so he can taste home cooked food again. I spoke to michael tonight and he sounded like he is having a good time.

Chaim G out

rabbi frand?

we recieved a brochure for a Chinese auction. Rabbi Frand will be the guest speaker at the auction. This afternoon adam was skimming the brochure and chavi goes look, [pointing to a picture of Rabbi Frand] that looks like uncle momo. hehehe. we wanted to post a picture but we couldnt find one.

We Survived Shabbos

Hey, we survived Shabbos with Chaim G. We were careful not to bring up the 'C' word too often. Only the potato kugel came out of the freezer. We missed the Shmikester. Sounds like he had a nice Shabbos in the Bush. Signing off. Gut Vocht. Mom

No, I dont like him, Im married w/ kids

Batya Feller came with a friend this shabbos and i asked her what her name is and she said Jenny Moskowitz and then i asked her were shes from and she said woodmere. She then said I think you know my family and i guess i gave her a look like"no i dont" and then she blurrted out the B word. No chaim, i dont like him. Im married with kids. bz"h bekarov beshah tovah u'mutzlachas.

Uncle Mikey

I was playing w/ Big R or really big R since its now motzei shabbos. We were playing w/ 5 little mentchen and I told her that there was a totty, moomy, rochel and esther and i asked her who she wanted the fifth to be. and she said Uncle Mikey.

I found it

This was ma's post that she bymistake put as a comment on batya's:

The emes is, I am not really commenting on Boo's post, I just couldn't figure out how to do a new post, so I just went to the most recent post. Anyway, I made chatzos, BH". Mikey needs to be driven to DRS as soon as he comes home so there was the incentive to be ready early.
Chaim is going to be a Ben Yachid this shabbos and is NOT looking forward to it. Does anyone have any suggestions why that may be so? I have a number of suggeations but...
Have a wonderful Shabbos. I love you all... and Mikey - have a wondrful, fantastic Shabbos and a great time in Canada!!!

Lost my original message

I wrote such a cute blog and now I can't find it. If someone out there who is savvy can find it, that would be great. Anyway, have a wonderful Shabbos. Love you all.

It's only from me (Ma) the message. Ta is going to have to figure this one out on his own!!!!

MarJac and P

I thik it would only be fair to include the "gatza gross Mishpacha"
The fetas, tantas, bubys, zeigies, evreyones shver and shviger, eiden and einiklach.

Bassie J

Chaim- If you needed a towel to clean yourself up Moshe Chaim is still using his bath towel,
maybe he can lend it to you?

Its almost chatzos, doesn't look like Im going to be ready. Sorry Ma.

A Gutten, heliga shabbos to the gantza mishpacha

Chaim, this blog was such a chessed considering that no one in our family ever communicates with each other, jk.

Enjoy the lasagne.

What A Dish

Mommy decided to make dinner tonight (wok tov called up furious and mommy had to explain it was just a once a month thing). She made a spinach lasagna in the new pan I (insert joke here) bought her. Mommy's one complaint about it is that it does not make enough to put in the freezer for Chanukah party. May we be zocheh to cook many more lasagnas in such a dish.

ta

i dont know about anyone else but i am waiting for ta to post on the blog. also notice how none of the "in laws" have posted. interesting. a point to ponder while in bed tonite.

Lasagna

Guess who made lasagna for dinner tonight in a beautiful, new ceramic, oven-to-table, pan?

I forgot to warn him

I was talking with my chavrusa this morning and he was telling me how he is takng this really nice teacher but he rocked the entire class on the midterm. Pretending i cared i asked him who he was taking. He said Ronnie Parelis for sphardic jewish history. I continued to laugh uncontrollably and had to go back to my dorm to change my pants. Baruch Hashem Shelo Assani Jewish History Major.

PS - He is really whipping them into shape.

pretty girl

i am downstairs feeding yosef dinner and chavi was upstairs getting into pajamas. all of a sudden i hear her call"mommy, a pretty girl is coming down the stairs". then lo and behold princess chavi gracefully made her entrance into the breakfast room.

Quick Shaylah for the Mishpacha

Do we have anything Febuary 20th or May 31st (memorial day weekend)? well i just spoke to the ncsy guy and those are the dates of the two shabbatons. Thanks a lot.

PS - shkoyach on everyone participating and this should be my last serious post

just testing

Hi everybody!!!!!

Hi guys!!!!!!! its the rents (and mikey), 46 hours till chasotz, and tonights stew was awesome, and if anybody needs potato kugel for shabbos let me know!

Yearbook

Heyy guys whats up? i just took my pictures for the yearbook today!! going to the city tomorrow for a trip, and then going to canada until monday!!!! anyways batya i really miss the kids and i cant wait to see them!!!!!!! love you all, Mikey

Tumbles

Batya J

Rochel had her first accident today! May we continue to see many more in the future. I took both kids out of the bath at the same time and while I was diapering Esther Roch pished on the floor. I quickly cleaned it up with Moshe Chaim's bath towel. Moshe Chaim took a shower tonight and I for got to tell him that................... to be continued.

Shalom Family,

I was online and i found out my friends family had a blog (ayin emerblog.com) to help them all keep in touch. Being that we are all going our separate ways (this is not trying to say that i am getting engaged tomorrow, just that I'm in YU) i decided to create a blog for us to keep in. It is very simple, and you can post pictures, videos, or just plain updates on your life (or DT's for those of us in kollel). I think we should all give it a try and we will evaluate how it is going after a month and re-asses (Im sorry mindy and mikey if it is not as much fun as facebook but ill try). So please keep in touch and may Hashem give us much hatzlachah in our new endeavor. (AMEN) (please make all posts before chatzos so we can go into shabbos with the right mind set)

Sincerely

Chaim G