Welcome Home

As a mom,  one of my many jobs is being the family coordinator.  We have a saying in our house.  Hubby is the CFO and I am the CEO.  So while planning for our Aliyah,  which happened in a very short period of time,  I was all caught up in making sure everything got done that needed to be done.  I didn't have time to dwell on my feelings about aliyah,  why this is the best,  etc....  I mean,  I know why.  It's just that I  didn't have time to shout it to the world.

I also knew (and others pointed it out to me),  that at some point,  the enormity of making aliyah would start to hit me.  That day was today.  Actually,  it wasn't the whole day.  It was one specific event.

Tonight,  we took out eldest child to his high school,  so that we could have a meeting,  they could meet him,  etc...  The adults had already visited many high schools and this was the one that we wanted for him.

Anyway, we sit down with the teacher and with the school counselor,  and pretty much,  the first thing that was said to us was something like this.  "We want you to know that you are home.  That whatever difficulties you have,  you are home and we welcome you."

We'll,  let me tell you.  I almost burst into tears right there.  Such simple words that mean so much.  The only reason I controlled myself was because I knew that my teenage son would have been mortified if his mother cried in his school,  before he even started school.

Look,  we know that we are in for a major challenge.  We didn't arrive in Israel with four toddlers who can adapt quickly.  We came with four real children.  And school will be hard.  It will be really really hard.  But the school knows this and the first thing they said to us just put me at ease and made me feel so happy inside.