Happy New Year…Shana Tova to Everyone

Zack enjoying his chocolate honey cake

The Jewish New Year is the first day of the Jewish year. It is in September on a different day every year because the Jewish months work by the moon.  It is also a few days after the first day of school after the summer holiday. It is great, we only just start school and we get another holiday.You send to everyone a note with something nice written inside wishing them a good new year.

In Netanya

On Rosh Hashana we eat apples with honey and blow in a shofar. We also eat pomegranates because it is a new year and the pomegranate are a new fruit.  The pomegranate season is on the Jewish new year. The pomegranates have 613 seeds and this is the number of Mitzvot (good deeds) that G'd has done.

On the first night of the Jewish New Year I was at home with my family and we had an amazing dinner. It was really yummy then we had dessert, we had chocolate cake with honey in it.   After dinner my brother Jadon and I watched a really good movie called Vacation.

On the second day of the Jewish New Year I was with friends at their house. We played football after dinner and the dinner was really yummy like my mums cake. I enjoyed the dinner so much that I wanted more.

With Aidan my friend

We all make wishes for the new year. I wish for the Jewish New Year that I will have a really successful year and be happy at school and that my teacher won’t scream at us any more - amen. 

Lifta - A day out that will simply blow your mind. A step back in history

Lifta

I had the best day ever a few weeks ago. My cousin took me out to a place in Jerusalem that I had been to in the past and wanted to go back to. This place is called Lifta.

Lifta was once an Arab Palestinian village outside of Jerusalem. In Lifta there is a little pool next to a cave. In the cave there is really cold water that gets to 1 degree only. The pool outside the cave is a natural spa and it gets really deep. It is filled up with rain water

It is so much fun at this place. When I arrived there I was so excited. I said to my cousin that Im going to jump from the roof of the cave into the pool and he didn’t believe me so I told him to watch me and then I jumped.

… All I can say that it was so nice to go there, it felt like I went back into the past-

Hi guys. It's my turn to take over my mum's blog

Hi Im Josh, I’m Kim’s son.

What I know about this blog is that my mum started to write it when I was 4. Now I’m 11. It’s amazing to see the blogs she wrote 7 years ago but my mum had enough so I’m taking over and continuing to write this blog.

Let me tell you about myself. You already know that my name is Josh and I’m 11 years old. I was born in London in 2004 and life was great. Then in 2008 my brother Jadon was born, he is now 7. What can I tell you, since Jadon was born everything in our lives changed.  

First my mum decided to not go back to work and she started this cool business called KiddyCat. I remember that I enjoyed getting free samples from the toys at the local fairs that she would go to.

Not long after my mum started KiddyCat, my parents told me that we were going to move to live in Israel. When I was told this I felt really happy because I really liked to visit Israel when we went there on holiday.

We finally moved to Israel in the summer of 2011.

When I first arrived in Israel I was nervous. I didn’t have any friends and I really missed my old friends from my old school. 4 years have now passed and I still miss them, but I still keep in contact and meet them when I visit London in the summer. My birthday is in August so it is a great excuse to have a party and meet up with my friends.

Since we moved, I got a new brother call Zack….life is full of plenty of fun and I hope that I will be able to show you all the fun things we do in Israel in my blog posts.

Speak soon,

Josh

The Mumpreneur that was no more.....6 years later

It was great to find this old blog of mine that I started back in the summer of 2009 with the opening of my business KiddyCat. It has been great looking back at some of the fun we had back then. I'm upset that I didn't keep up posting our adventures, as we certainly have had many adventures since the last post.

The boys back in 2010

Life takes turns that are often surprising. I am not longer running KiddyCat and in fact, I am no longer a mum to 2 little monsters. I now have 3. It is not only my work and personal circumstances that have changed so dramatically, I am also no longer living in the UK. That is something that was not on the cards when I began KiddyCat.

 Just after I set up Kiddycat my husband was offered what we thought would be a fantastic opportunity involving moving abroad with the kids. Kiddycat, my dream business that I was already in love with, went on hold and we began to make plans for a future in the sun with the family.

In the summer of 2011 we moved with our two kids to Israel to start afresh. Life certainly has not be an easy ride. The kids had to integrate into an entirely new culture, new schools, and learn a new language. It was not only the children that had to face new hurdles, I also had to look for a new career that would fit in with our new lifestyle.

Finding this old blog has made me think of starting a new idea with my kids. I am still mummy, that is one aspect of my life that has not changed thankfully. From today, this blog is no longer going to be mine, from today forwards, my loving blog page is going to be written by my kids.

Joshua is no long the cute little 4 year old, he is a naughty pre-teen. Jadon, my little monkey is still my monkey but at age 7 is far from little. Then we have our latest addition, Zachary, who will be 2 in December.

All grown up and with the new addition to the family Zack

I'm hoping the boys will be able to bring some fun and laughter into your days and share with you some of the joy that they bring to me.

Signing off and handing over to the boys......Kim