Show your readers 5 different ways to decorate pumpkins.
Whoops, a bit late with last weeks prompt 🙂
So I have only ever decorated/carved a pumpkin once. It was messy and fun and easier than I expected. This is what it looked like.
I was pretty proud of it. You can see the entire ‘how to’ here.
If I were to decorate more pumpkins I wouldn’t carve them. Way too messy and gooey.
I would rather do something like the images below.
Spring cleaning. Pesach cleaning. Just all the cleaning.
So far since last Friday we have done the following:
Still to be done this afternoon and tomorrow morning:
And after all the cleaning is done, I have to pack away all my day to day crockery and cutlery and kitchen things and unpack all the Pesach things and wash what needs washing before it can be used.
And then the great Pesach cooking can commence.
I need a nap already!
Write the beginning of a scary story and let your readers decide what happens next.
The rain was coming down harder, the icy pellets stinging her bare arms. She stopped walking at the cross roads, her eyes darting to the sides, into the dense bushes along the road. She knew she wasn’t alone, she just didn’t know what else was out there, watching her. A loud crack of thunder sounded at the same time the lightning struck, illuminating the road ahead. Nothing but a long dark road, flanked my tall trees, bending almost double in the wind and rain. She started walking again, a little bit faster. The sharp staccato sound of nails on tar made her heart beat faster. She didn’t turn around, just started to run.
I’ve spoken before about how amazing my kids are in regards to learning Hebrew. How that, within the 1st few months of living in Israel, they were already able to hold a conversation with their friends, teachers and the cashiers at the supermarket.
The fact is that both kids are now fluent. They even know words in Hebrew that they don’t know the English for. Lots of dictionary looking up going on over here.
One of the things that struck me this week is that Faith tends to speak Hebrew when she is playing by herself. I often listen to her playing with her dolls or other toys and speaking in Hebrew to them and making them speak in Hebrew. She very rarely speaks to her dolls in English. She also sings in Hebrew all the time.
Its interesting to me because I don’t think Aaron would do it if he still played with his dolls and action figures by himself (he tends to prefer reading when he is by himself now).
When they play together, just the two of them, they will play in English with a few random Hebrew words or phrases thrown in. When they play together and they have friends over, they speak Hebrew mostly but they switch to English when they are telling each other what to do or fighting about something. I have to keep reminding them that they must speak Hebrew even if it doesn’t involve their friends because its rude to speak English in front of people who don’t understand.
Totally fascinating how they have adjusted.
Share your best soup recipe.
We’ve just seen the end of winter here in the Northern Hemisphere (good riddance!) so no more soup for us. Although chicken soup is always welcome, even in 40°C weather.
This winter I made a few ‘throw everything in the pot’ soups and they all actually turned out really well.
In my opinion there are a few basic steps that MUST happen in order for any soup to be good, regardless of the ingredients.
So, here is a basic recipe. You can adapt it depending what veggies you have in your fridge.
