teach your children well

We are in the middle of a heat wave today. While Hubby's Toronto is taking in their hundredth snow storm of the year, I nonchalantly told him that it was too hot for me to walk around in a long-sleeved shirt. The sleeveless outfits are still in storage, but I'll get them out after Passover. I'm sure this weather is just a tease. We're due for a few more chilly days.

I tried to practice saying "no" to requests for people wanting me on this committee and that committee and people begging me to eat healthier, where the cooking takes up alot of precious hours. I'm 52 and I have homework for Chrissakes!! People saddled with homework don't take on board memberships and committees and all sorts of other stuff that are really important but that will probably have to wait another 19 years until I retire or the mortgage is paid off or I win a lottery of a decent size and I won't have to work so hard. I keep on asking God for lottery winnings and He thinks - hey! you just won 11 NIS ($3) in a lottery. That's a winning. So I have to be very specific and have asked Him for at least 1 million and a half NIS in winnings - not this 11 shekel shit.

During February I even tried to organize an interfaith encounter of people from my hometown of Maaleh Adumim with Palestinians from Abu Dis. I managed to get 8 people, though people are still wary of meeting with Palestinians. This week's events where a terrorist killed young students in a Jewish House of Learning are not going to help me either in my quest. Do they really think this will get Palestinians their freedom from checkpoints, when it only will make things much worse for them?? I can't understand this at all.

My son keeps on pointing out that in Gaza they celebrated the killings with sweets and general happy hoopla in the streets. One thing I must say about Israelis or Jews is that we don't go around shouting YIPEE when the IDF goes in and sprays the Gazans with bombs, bullets or whatever it is they do. There are no celebrations here for murder. And for this I'm quite proud of our culture/society. And while I try to teach my children when I hear them say "fucking Arabs" at the latest news that "not every Arab is a terrorist - in fact most are not", I feel these idiot terrorists are teaching my children a whole other thing.