Uncle Jeb is the hero tonight. Shalev, my adorable 17 mo. old nephew, is sleeping peacefully and it all went down without a hitch thanks to  tiny paragliding videos on an iPhone in a dark room. Noam, Rinah, and Asjer are also all in bed now and the house is quiet and clean. We are getting to babysit! My brother and his wife are out on a hot date (literally) at Hammat Gader, an ancient hot springs and spa in the Golan. We arrived safely in Israel a week ago.  We hit the ground running with 5 days of Hanukkah left to celebrate, projects to help with, out-of-town family to see, jet lag to fight, and Hebrew to remember. We’ve been busy! The kids and Jeb are happy to be settled somewhere for the next little while. I’m happy to be “home”. Good excuses for our lack of blogging, don’t you think? We will do our best to blog at least weekly for our time here in Israel. Maybe just check on the weekends for the next little bit?! We do have a few posts left from our time in Thailand that we would really like to share. I will do my best to post those tomorrow. For now, I’m going to bed, R and L are watching Leverage, and Jeb is doing I’m not sure what. Good night!