{"id":486,"date":"2007-03-14T21:11:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2007\/03\/14\/our-trip-to-the-negev\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T21:11:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:11:21","slug":"our-trip-to-the-negev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/our-trip-to-the-negev\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Trip to the Negev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family recently returned from a 4-day trip to the Negev.  I was teaching and thought that they would be intrigued with the transitory patterns of migrating Bedouin in the biblical period.  This has been a three-year tradition.  Nine years ago, I went on the trip with the school cellphone at the ready (back then, cellphones weren’t as ubiquitous) in case Kelli called on the way to the hospital.  The trip was uninterrupted and Luke was born a few days later.  Three years later, Kelli, Luke and Mark all came along for the trip.  Luke walked up Masada with help from our friend Becky.  Three years after that, a very-pregnant Kelli was along together with Luke, Mark and Bethany.  This time, Luke (age 6) walked up Masada by himself.  Well, not all alone, but without assistance.  Last week, we reprised the trip with a nearly-three-year-old Katie in tow.  Luke and Mark joined me on the walk up Masada and both hardly needed to take a break at all.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, we stayed in at a nice hotel in Eilat.  One of the boys was thrilled with the room and exclaimed, “look, mom, a computer.”  And spotting another in the bedroom, “two computers!”  They were unfamiliar with a small object with a large gravitational pull known to the rest of the world as a television.<\/p>\n

This year, the object was less of a mystery, but when Luke needed to go to the bathroom, he insisted that it be paused.<\/p>\n

I suppose I should expect to be called in by Social Services to answer charges of how we are depriving our children of a normal upbringing.  Though I should add, that it’s not purely principle, but also a matter of space in the house.<\/p>\n

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Staring at a silver box, March 2007<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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