Who is crazier?

Yesterday, we all went to my nephew Shmuel's bar mitzva (more on that later). We had to leave the house by 7:30 in the morning so we could meet everyone in Yerushalayim for the bus to Chevron for shacharis which was scheduled to start at 9:30. I was nervous that it would start late and we'd miss sof zman tfila. I also wasn't thrilled about taking my tallis and tfillin with us all day and I wanted to have the option of eating before that. So I insisted that I had to go to shacharis before we left. I planned on going to my regular 6:20 minyan so I could be home around 7. The only problem was that Shira has to exercise every single day. She can't go to the gym on Friday or Shabbos and we weren't going to be home until 11 PM so she needed to exercise. She planned on being at the gym when it opened at 6 so she could be home by 7. I thought Shira was crazy for not being willing to miss a single day of exercise and she thought I was nuts for insisting on davening shacharis at the crack of dawn. In the end, she arranged for my niece Rivka from Nof Ayalon to sleep here Thursday night so we could both do what we wanted. Our kids were mostly ready when we got home and behaved nicely and we were able to leave by 7:30 and be on time for the bus.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What do you mean MOSTLY ready? I got up with your kids about 4 hours before my usual wake-up time (well, not really), and had them all ready. Well, except for Yeshaya,because I didn't know what clothes to dress him in. And except Rivka G, who wasn't hungry.
But - more importantly - we had great bonding time! And that's the real point....
Rivka F

Anonymous said...

The correct answer is...

You're both crazy, but, yeah, Shira's a little crazier.

- Aryeh