So many things we could do is this last shabbat before lockdown!  The beach, a bit of shopping, last-minute visits with kids, matbe just a visit with friends.  So many choices, we couldn’t decide and stayed home except for a short visit to a visit to a nursery that turned out to be closed.  We were simply paralyzed.  

maybe with excitement – last night my sister-in-law passed on to Ezi another box of papers that belong to the previous generations and we spent half of last night looking at things like the front page of the newspaper declaring the independence of Israel, letters from a world war I prisoner of war camp,   photographs of Tel Aviv from the 1920’s.

we were also thrilled to see grandchildren yesterday – one more delightful than the other – it is pretty remarkable how easily i’m moved nowadays!

maybe with expectation – among the many other things we’re doing tomorrow are our vaccinations.  Ours are in the evening and we have no way of knowing how well the protection will be for a lymphoma-treated patient or how my allergy-prone body will take it, but the excitement is incredible.

so far 200000 people have been vaccinated in this country, and apparently the health clinics are working around the clock.  Let’s just hope this will be our last lockdown and everyone will be vaccinated.  When one of my ex-students came down with corona, we waited every day for her to update her facebook – especially since she had lymphoma when Ezi did.  But she is healthy and back on facebook, and we are relieved.