Gymnastics and My Weekly Update
My daughter started gymnastics today.
She can’t wait until next week. She wishes it was more than just once a week.
I am so very happy for her. She likes it a lot. She is cautious yet is having fun trying different things. Balancing beam. Hoola hoops. Tumble sauces. Jumping then tumbling over. It is good for her.
I wonder how long she will be able to go. It is in a co-ed setting. But her small class of five, is just girls. The classes are separated. But the gym room is not. There are older boys but they are busy with their own gymnastic class. There is little time to mingle and I am not concerned with mingling.
I am more concerned with tznius. My friend asked her Rav. He said she has till she is seven years old. After all, they are in a gymnastic suit, but I got her the ones that are like shorts, so it covers more than just a bathing suit. I am not that careful with tznius at such a young age. Remember she does go on the trapeze at home and flips over making her skirt go completely up and uncover anything. I stress tznius, but in a nice reminding way as opposed to yelling at her and making her feel bad and hating it.
My son tried it today. Let’s put it this way, the money from his class is going in escrow for my daughters fall class. Luckily I didn’t decide to register him for the fall. Luckily the only fall class available was Friday at 2PM impossible to meet when he gets out of school at 1:50.
My daughter’s day camp is starting a reading program. Based on the grade she is going into, they are promoting a reading contest. They sent home letters spelling Reading is Fun and on each letter we sign that she read her allotted pages and the Title of the book. Yesterday she read three pages, but I sent in one letter. Today she read four pages and finished the book (only four page book) so I am sending her in with two letters. Also Barnes and Nobles has this Reading program as well. Going into First through Sixth Grade this coming year. Read Eight books, write the title and a sentence of your favorite part and bring it back to the store. Get a free book. So far she read two books. Six more to go.
I do not recall having summer homework as a child. My daughter was sent him with an English stack of summer homework. Reading, writing and math. Reading words, writing words and numbers. She also has a contest to do 15 minutes of kriah a day color in a balloon. When she is done, mail it back to her teacher for a prize. After a full day of day camp, who has time to do that? Luckily she is young enough to actually want to do this. She is doing great. It is me, after a long day of work lose patience.
My great-uncle is in and out of the hospital. Boruch Elazer ben Riva should have a refuah shelamah. Bli Ayin Hara he celebrated his 90th birthday in March. He has plenty of more years ahead. Have him in your tefilos.
I guess this is my weekly update.
My nephews from both sides who are in NY, NJ area are going to the Meadowlands to the State Fair. I think it is nice that the Jewish camps rent/reserve such fun attractions for the campers, and do NOT charge more money to take them there. My kids went bowling and roller-blading today. I don’t know if the girls camp do such creative things or if it is even possible to do it. I know in August, the boys camp are renting a water park for all males to go join. I am assuming that the girls camp can’t do that because the girls still have an issue with tznius with male employees there. But still, there must be fun activities that they do that they can get together with other camps. I actually take that back, because last year they rented out a water park for two days. One for the boys and one for the girls. So many ladies joined them that day. It was open for all Jewish females who bought advanced tickets. And surprisingly enough, tickets were not overpriced.
Had a discussion with a friend regarding maser money. How does one NOT take out ten percent of their paycheck? How can one complain that it will hurt their pocket? After all this money is not really yours to begin with. Yes, yes, I know, you can deduct child care expenses pre-maaser money. It is almost like figuring what you can buy pre-tax money. Are we that anal that we don’t want to give a penny more to maser than the ten percent that maser is entitled to? Do we really think that we will hurt if we give that money to maser? Don’t we know that in the long run it will hurt us more so if we do not give the money, because it is not really ours to keep? Or is it? I mean what is so hard with giving up ten percent of your income to those who do not have anything? Even the American government offers us incentives to give charity. The more you give the more of a tax break you get. If they are offering this to us, imagine being Jews what God will offer us!
My babysitter just called. She is not feeling so well now. She has pain. She can’t come in the morning. She will come when the kids get out of camp. She will pick them up and the baby, and stay till I come home. This is after I left work early every day for her. And mind you, she will want to get paid for not coming in on July fourth. Times like this is when I want to stop working.
Have a good week my dear readers. It seems I don’t update often enough. I guess that since this blog is long enough, I can count it as a weekly blog or update. Please, leave your comments.
She can’t wait until next week. She wishes it was more than just once a week.
I am so very happy for her. She likes it a lot. She is cautious yet is having fun trying different things. Balancing beam. Hoola hoops. Tumble sauces. Jumping then tumbling over. It is good for her.
I wonder how long she will be able to go. It is in a co-ed setting. But her small class of five, is just girls. The classes are separated. But the gym room is not. There are older boys but they are busy with their own gymnastic class. There is little time to mingle and I am not concerned with mingling.
I am more concerned with tznius. My friend asked her Rav. He said she has till she is seven years old. After all, they are in a gymnastic suit, but I got her the ones that are like shorts, so it covers more than just a bathing suit. I am not that careful with tznius at such a young age. Remember she does go on the trapeze at home and flips over making her skirt go completely up and uncover anything. I stress tznius, but in a nice reminding way as opposed to yelling at her and making her feel bad and hating it.
My son tried it today. Let’s put it this way, the money from his class is going in escrow for my daughters fall class. Luckily I didn’t decide to register him for the fall. Luckily the only fall class available was Friday at 2PM impossible to meet when he gets out of school at 1:50.
My daughter’s day camp is starting a reading program. Based on the grade she is going into, they are promoting a reading contest. They sent home letters spelling Reading is Fun and on each letter we sign that she read her allotted pages and the Title of the book. Yesterday she read three pages, but I sent in one letter. Today she read four pages and finished the book (only four page book) so I am sending her in with two letters. Also Barnes and Nobles has this Reading program as well. Going into First through Sixth Grade this coming year. Read Eight books, write the title and a sentence of your favorite part and bring it back to the store. Get a free book. So far she read two books. Six more to go.
I do not recall having summer homework as a child. My daughter was sent him with an English stack of summer homework. Reading, writing and math. Reading words, writing words and numbers. She also has a contest to do 15 minutes of kriah a day color in a balloon. When she is done, mail it back to her teacher for a prize. After a full day of day camp, who has time to do that? Luckily she is young enough to actually want to do this. She is doing great. It is me, after a long day of work lose patience.
My great-uncle is in and out of the hospital. Boruch Elazer ben Riva should have a refuah shelamah. Bli Ayin Hara he celebrated his 90th birthday in March. He has plenty of more years ahead. Have him in your tefilos.
I guess this is my weekly update.
My nephews from both sides who are in NY, NJ area are going to the Meadowlands to the State Fair. I think it is nice that the Jewish camps rent/reserve such fun attractions for the campers, and do NOT charge more money to take them there. My kids went bowling and roller-blading today. I don’t know if the girls camp do such creative things or if it is even possible to do it. I know in August, the boys camp are renting a water park for all males to go join. I am assuming that the girls camp can’t do that because the girls still have an issue with tznius with male employees there. But still, there must be fun activities that they do that they can get together with other camps. I actually take that back, because last year they rented out a water park for two days. One for the boys and one for the girls. So many ladies joined them that day. It was open for all Jewish females who bought advanced tickets. And surprisingly enough, tickets were not overpriced.
Had a discussion with a friend regarding maser money. How does one NOT take out ten percent of their paycheck? How can one complain that it will hurt their pocket? After all this money is not really yours to begin with. Yes, yes, I know, you can deduct child care expenses pre-maaser money. It is almost like figuring what you can buy pre-tax money. Are we that anal that we don’t want to give a penny more to maser than the ten percent that maser is entitled to? Do we really think that we will hurt if we give that money to maser? Don’t we know that in the long run it will hurt us more so if we do not give the money, because it is not really ours to keep? Or is it? I mean what is so hard with giving up ten percent of your income to those who do not have anything? Even the American government offers us incentives to give charity. The more you give the more of a tax break you get. If they are offering this to us, imagine being Jews what God will offer us!
My babysitter just called. She is not feeling so well now. She has pain. She can’t come in the morning. She will come when the kids get out of camp. She will pick them up and the baby, and stay till I come home. This is after I left work early every day for her. And mind you, she will want to get paid for not coming in on July fourth. Times like this is when I want to stop working.
Have a good week my dear readers. It seems I don’t update often enough. I guess that since this blog is long enough, I can count it as a weekly blog or update. Please, leave your comments.
posted by ifuncused at 7/06/2005 10:08:00 PM
1 Comments:
Yes she enjoyed a lot.
Tznius issue. I looked at the gym. It is one big room and a bunch of little groups. It is not so proper for her to be dressed in a bathing suit in front of boys when she gets older.
This is my opinion. It might vary but hey, each their own
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