on birthdays and nursery teachers

My daughter just turned 5.

Well, actually, not quite... She turned 5 almost 3 months ago, but that was smack at the beginning of the school year, and being that my daughter is too shy, it was too early to celebrate her birthday then.

My wife discussed it with the nursery teacher at the start of the school year, and it was decided to push off the birthday party until my daughter get's more orientated with her classmates.

Yesterday noon, my wife comes to pick up my daughter from the gan, and low and behold - 'We'll be celebrating Simi's birthday tomorrow!'

'You have to buy 45 prizes, and send with her a picture album with pictures from birth and on.'

Sunday is my wife's longest work day. She teaches in 3 different schools / seminaries. between 8 AM till 7 PM.

How exactly was she supposed to fit in also running out to a store to buy 45 prizes?

And a picture album? Of course, we have pictures of Simi starting from the delivery room, all conveniently on my hard disk...

OK, I actually print some hard copies once every year or two, but they for sure all scattered between all the other family pictures.

Go find a small pocket album, and start reshuffling pictures.

They could have given a few days notice. That would have made all the difference.

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The same goes for Ima / Abba shel Shabat.

We do all our Shabbos shopping on Wednesday.

Stores tend to be a little less busy then, and my wife anyway cooks on Thursday.

And all of a sudden, on Thursday afternoon the ganenet remembers that Shabbos is approaching. Didn't realize it earlier. Oh, and no Ima shel Shabat yet.

Simi, you're Ima shel Shabat.

Your mother probably doesn't have anything better to do on a Thursday afternoon - why doesn't she go out and buy 45 candy bars.

A little planning is all it takes.

OK. enough kvetching for now.

:-)