ahka | weekend...

This weekend has been pretty tiring for me. I have been cooking, serving food, cleaning, watching kids, listening to some troubled people’s stories and now I am totally exhausted. I don't need to cook for the next week since I made enough food for a week (I think).

On Friday, we had a professional photo shoot of our family at our house. We planned to do it outside but the weather was not very happy on Friday and we ended up doing studio pics. It is not easy with two kids. Mishka was annoyed with the whole process and his clothes and Michelle just wanted to be a model by herself (she did pretty good :). I was happy that photographer came to our house and kids felt good being home. I can't wait to see the pics. I saw them on the camera and really liked some of them. Some have to be edited some...

I am glad that tomorrow is another day off and I arranged babysitting in the morning for a few hours. I hope I will catch up on some rest and change of scenery.

I feel like Boris and I are such boring parents. We hardly ever plan any fun trips for Mishka. We don't go camping together, we don't take him to the museums, we haven't been in any big state parks in MN, I don't even know where our nearest beach on the lake. Once in a while when someone else pushes us to do these things we gladly do it, hardly ever our initiative. I need to start changing this. I guess it will be one of the new year resolutions to plan more educational and fun time with kids. We are skipping the State Fair this year and Renaissance Festival and I guess already missed the Corn Maze.

However, I am so itching to go somewhere, travel somewhere, but it is not a very good timing. Mishka’s school starts on Tuesday. There is no need to go anywhere and Boris wouldn’t just let me go like this. Well, he would but I don’t think it would be right. Plus I wish I could go somewhere with him. Well, our next trip plan is to CA visit my sis for the new years with the kids. I guess it is my egoistic desire talks and I will just squish it until right time will come!

Look forward to tomorrow’s lecture by Rav. Polonsky--pinchas .