Sister Bear

A lot of people use Sher Auto Sales but they are in Baltimore, I think.

You should know about the Lemon Laws and any other law that lets you give back your car to the car dealer even after a yr or two.

Unfortunately we didn’t know this and now are stuck with our car 🙁 So check into those!!

about toddlers – in my experience they don’t understand what you are saying when you speak their ‘language’. For example my younger sister called my sister a nickname instead of her real name cuz she couldn’t say it. But when we would ask my baby sister if she wanted the other sister using the nickname she would have no idea what we were talking about.

about other people who don’t speak English properly – I don’t think it’s a conscious thing. But it could be you just adapt how your talking to theirs without even realizing.

Um I don’t think only if you sign up. I just got a thing from it saying my mother invited me, trust me she didn’t sign up (I asked her). Don’t open it is what I would say, that’s what I think sends it to all your friends.

If you send out a please daven fwd, if you start it, then date it and follow up!!! and if you didn’t start it, say a perek of tehilim and forget about it. Thats my policy.

-my friends

-my younger siblings (older, we’ll forget about them. 😉

-doing well on something I worked hard on.

-having a healthy relationship with my parents and extended family.

-seeing G-d’s presence in my life

Southern!!!!!! It’s the cutest thing in the world 🙂

The old old Brooklyn one, NOT the one nowadays!!

Friday Night:

-Heaven Homemade Challah

-Hot Gefilte Fish in a Sauce

-Chicken Soup with Motza Balls

-Roasted Chicken and Potatoes (officially the best!!! other people have said so as well!!)

-Some sort of vegetables

-Portabello Mushrooms (sometimes)

-Dessert is whatever we make. Cake, cookies…

Shabbos Lunch:

-Fish (either leftovers from the night before or who knows what)

-Different delicious salads

-Cholent

-Potato Kugel

-Sometimes another kugel too

-Dessert same type as above but a different one.

lets say you’re having a Chanuka party somewhere and it wouldn’t be feasible to go home and light before. Can the father of the house you are going to be yotzei for around 50 girls? Or do they each have to light?

Not necessarily is it a waste of money and time if the girl learns from it. I think seminary is a good year for some to support and strengthen their haskafos before going out into the real world and getting married.

I’m gonna be the first to jump into the fire but I doubt it’ll help, but here goes…

How do you help people that are having a hard time helping themselves???? Do you know how hard it is to see your friends have problems????? And you can’t do anything about it cuz what are you supposed to do?????? And when you see your friend hurting themselves (spiritually) but you can’t do anything cuz you know they won’t listen and you’ve just got to be there for when they need you!!!!!! D’ya know what its like to be texting two friends who are both having troubles but seem stuck in their situation!!!! It’s a hard life out there!!!!!!!

What is the name of the boy who was killed? We are doing Machsom L’fi zecher nishmaso but we don’t know the name to do it for. Thanks

tomim tihye – maybe there are good schools out there. But just make sure that that’s really what they’re doing and your kids feel that way because schools can be two-faced!!! If your kids ever complain or anything, listen to them! There is some truth to what they’re saying!!!

The system is what makes good frum kids go off. Plain and simple. You can blame things from today till tomorrow, and yes there may be other factors, but the root of the problem is the system and once that changes, I think there will be less kids going off.

There are many kids that are going off inside (there was a Mishpacha article about that) they don’t really care about Yiddishkeit inside they are just pretending on the outside cuz they learn that’s all thats really important.

Call yourself a Bais Yaakov, but unless you act like one you aren’t. You’re lying! What message are you teaching kids? The basic things of faith in Hashem, they preach to you all the time but the way they act is the total opposite. I’m a kid in the system right now, you can take my word for what I’m saying.

I’m a good frum girl. I was in a Bais Yaakov and hated it. And it wasn’t just my school. My friend’s friend got suspended for asking a question on Emunah or something like that. When kids get that message, then what’s the point? Why should I live a life of restrictions, that’s all that the school is teaching them. They don’t teach about the beauty of Judaism and if you try to find it, then you’re like an apikorus.

They try to fit you into a mold and if you don’t want to be a teacher in BY and have 25 kids while living off a kollel paycheck in a basement apartment in Lakewood then you aren’t frum. Judaism is taught as all or nothing. But it’s not like that!!

A kid who is having a hard time with Tznius or another mitzva, why should they try to fix it? They’re burning in hell either way, so why not just transgress all the others cuz you’re doomed either way.

People become so focused on the small things that aren’t even Halacha and make them into Halacha and just focus on externals. (that did not just make sense. sorry) Judaism is a way of living. It’s not supposed to strangle you, and if it does there is something wrong!

Sorry for ranting but it’s a really sore topic for me, becuase it’s just soooo messed up and someone needs to do something about it quick!!!!

We have some really close friend that comes to us often so each time she comes she doesn’t bring something (I mean if your married sister came and every time brought something, it’d be weird.) Sometime she makes dessert and brings it. But by Yontiff and stuff she brings over a platter. It’s a good, cheap, inexpensive gift that is really useful.

P.S. – If you’re coming to us for Shabbos, cherry nibs is your ticket in!

lol we had to make hostess gifts for my sisters school and we got nibs for them!!! I guess they’ll invite the girls again with them. 🙂

To my star pupil,

I am writing this letter to let you know what I think of you. Up here in heaven things are not like they are down on Earth. Over there, people only know what they can see. If they see a person is “successful”, they think that he is the greatest guy. When they see somebody struggling, they think he might be one of the weaker elements.

Let me tell you something. Hashem gives every person certain abilities that nobody knows about down where you live. Some people are capable of tremendous things, while others were put there for much smaller purposes. Only Hashem in His infinite wisdom is able to give every person exactly what he needs, to reach his potential.

I am very misunderstood. Most people hate me, and I don’t really blame them. Most people think that my job is to make sure that they fail in all aspects of Mitzvos, and that I rejoice every time they sin. This is the furthest thing from the truth. Did you ever watch a boxing coach train his student? It is really a funny sight. The coach will put on gloves, and fight against his student. At first, he won’t hit him so hard, or throw his best punches. But, as the student gets better and better, the coach will start to fight him harder and harder. He does this so that the student will improve his skills, and become the best boxer he can be. This is where it gets strange. Every time the coach knocks down the student, the student gets yelled at!! But finally, when the coach threw everything he has at his student, and not only does he withstand the beating, but he knocks the coach down, there is nobody in the world happier then the coach himself!

This is exactly how I feel. If you fail right away, and don’t even try to fight back, I see that there is not much talent to work with, and so I take it easy on you. But if you get back up swinging, I realize that I may have a real winner here, and so I start to intensify the beating. With every level that you go up, I increase the intensity of the fight. If you finally deal me a blow that knocks me out, I will get up and embrace you and rejoice with your success.

Sometimes my job is very disappointing I see a person with a lot of potential and I start right in on him. He fights back for a while, but when the fight gets too tough, he quits and just remains on whatever level he was on. (And he usually ends up going down!) I feel like yelling at him, “Get up you fool! Do you have any idea how much more you could be accomplishing?!” But I am not allowed to do so. I just leave him alone, and go try to find another promising candidate.

If I have chosen you to be the target of my more fierce battles, it was not for no reason! You have tremendous ability! You were born into a very special family, you have Rabbeim who really care about you, and parents who would help you grow in Torah and Mitzvos. You are a very respectful and kind person.

Always remember one thing: you have a secret weapon at your disposal. I shouldn’t really be telling you – but I will anyway. Hashem himself is watching our “training” sessions very closely. I’m pleased to inform you that He’s rooting for you! If things should ever get tough, almost too tough to bear, just callout to Him with a prayer, and He will immediately come to your aid. I wish you the best of luck, and I hope that after 120 years when your time is up in that world of falsehood, you will come up here to the world of truth, where I will be waiting for you with open arms, to congratulate you on your victory, and personally escort you to your place next to the Kisey HaKavod.

Sincerely, and with great admiration I remain,

Your Yetzer Hara

Yum chicken soup!!!!!! My father always says that the only thing that keeps him up and going in shul on Friday night is my mother’s chicken soup!!!! Heaven!!!!

mosherose – are you seriously comparing chicken soup to kippas??

I get annoyed too quickly cuz people don’t get what I’m saying (it’s my fault tho cuz I have no idea how to explain things well.)

Do people get to give advice on how to change the bad habits?

Wolf, gorgeous shot!!!!!!!! I also appreciate how you explain how you did it!!! Can I put it as the background for my computer? 🙂

I have a regular Canon point and shoot camera. Will it do all these cool things too?

I heard the aspartame can cause brain cancer.

We have this DVD called Sweet Misery that talks about it.

Whatever you drink, don’t drink too much of it, whether it’s diet, regular or wtvr 🙂

These have probably been repeated a thousand times but are still worth the laugh.

A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God.’

The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like’

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill..’

One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’

Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’

A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’

‘Yes,’ the class said.

‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’

A little fellow shouted,

‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:

‘Take only ONE . God is watching.’

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.’

No coincedence

that I helped my friends write these

Just yesterday. Cool.

Traffic lights growing

closer and closer to me

as I stop on red.

In Japan haikus

have to be about nature

Here, we are lazy.

In America

They could be on anything

That’s under the sky.

My mother gets canker sores often and she says it’s from a lack of sleep. Maybe try getting more sleep!

A close relative was diagnosed with cancer around five years ago. He had a 4% chance of life and doctors weren’t hopeful. They were debating to do chemo because if he was going to die anyway, he should do it peacefully.

Thank G-d they did chemo and lived for an additional five years. Unfortunately he was just niftar, but he was in remission a bunch of times, they had gotten rid of the cancer. He even had a kid while he was sick!

I know it’s not exactly a happy ending, but never ever give up! Even when everything is going bad and it doesn’t look like they’ll get better, because they might, everything is in G-d’s hands. Not the doctors.

May everyone have a refuah sheleima!!!!

Are there any history buffs here?

Does anyone know what the northern colonies produced and what the south produced?

What was the racial/ethnic make up of the northern colonies? the southern colonies?

Thanks!