Saturday night just over a week to Pesah. 

We spent the afternoon in the park with our younger kids and local friends. 

We made havdalah, read the little kids bedtime stories, said Shema with them, put them to bed. 

DH started clearing up the kitchen. I sat down to answer some questions from volunteers. 

There was a message from our primary school principal that Home Front Command has updated its instructions and all educational activities are now cancelled - day care, afternoon programmes, youth group outings, Pesah vacation camps. 

The Leket farm volunteer organisation sent out an emergency update cancelling all its activities throughout the country for Sunday. 

Started getting questions from volunteers about whether it was safe to go to farms tomorrow. 

A friend who's a first responder messaged me to stock up on water and essentials, and to make sure my elderly relatives were stocked too. 

While DH was out delivering to a relative the radio announced that dozens of drones were en route to Israel from Iran. ETA around 0200-0400 am. 

Teens are awake. Sit them down for a chat. Israeli teens have by now gone through many rockets sirens, distance learning in wartime, security alerts, terror attacks. They are concerned but calm. We have a shelter, we have some emergency supplies in our shelter. We've done what we can. 

Big kid carries in extra water bottles to the shelter along with some extra snacks and a book of Psalms. 

Other child decides to get a quick shower in case there isn't a chance tomorrow. 

DH starts baking banana bread. It's just over a week to Pesah. Tonight we were going to clean the kitchen, collect up all the hametz to either be used up or donated.

Instead he's baking banana bread so that there will be a fresh treat for our little kids in case they get woken in the middle of the night by sirens. That and it gives him something constructive to do. 

Our kitchen is close to our shelter. The aroma of cinnamon and fresh baking makes everything smell sweet and warm. 

And so we wait and pray. Latest news update is that Iran has over a 100 drones and possibly cruise missiles in the air. Hizballah lobbed some rockets at northern Israel as well, just for good measure.

Conflicting reports from foreign news services about possible launches from Yemen and ICBMs from Iran.