Exciting! Happy birthday to your eldest! Is he (I seem to remember you saying you had boys) planning to go to uni or take some time exploring before the next stage in life?
I am sure I could probably write a lot more on the subtle changes we are all having to deal with. My daughter barely wants to be at home now. Apparently, Devon is boring in comparison to the time she has had away and she has already booked a flight back to Turkey for the middle of next month. And she is talking about returning to Israel afterwards to teach English there.
I am intrigued as to what your work was that took you to Israel such a lot? I have a lot of childhood memories and lived there for a few months between school and uni, with the idea that I may go to uni there.