Time to Get Excited: The Kichels Collection 3 Is Here!

It’s too good to be true. Another Kichels Collection is here! It’s 20% off plus use code BCKICHEL3 for FREE SHIPPING too at Feldheim.com.

The story begins last month when I was looking at the upcoming posts and ads on the calendar… and I spotted “Kichels” on the calendar for tonight.

Could it be? But The Kichels Collection 2 just came out last year. Is there another book? Already? It’s too good to be true!

I emailed the team. Is it true? Is a new Kichels coming? They confirmed. Yippee!

Last year, do you remember where I was when I heard that The Kichels Collection 2 came out? You can read about it in this post.

This time, a copy of The Kichels Collection 3 arrived special for the Between Carpools team the same day as the release. Except that it went to Renee’s house, not mine. That’s because that’s where we do our photoshoots. It’s the unofficial Between Carpools “address.” Baruch Hashem, there was a photoshoot that day. I popped in and made myself comfortable with the book. And then Renee took some embarrassing footage of me reading and giggling with Leah yelling, “Can we get back to work here?” (That video better not go anywhere.)

Ok, let me just finish this page. And this one too.

I took The Kichels Collection 3 home that day. I needed a strategy, though. Because I knew there would be fights. Should I keep it in the car until Shabbat? But that wouldn’t help. I wanted to read it today. 

Esti has this whole “fights over The Kichels” thing down pat. She buys multiple copies for her house. But now I had one copy, and I knew that I needed rules. 

So, here we went: Son #3 is allowed to read it while I’m cooking dinner. But once I finish cooking dinner, it’s mine and no one is allowed to touch it. Daughter #1 is allowed to have it after I finish, or when I go up to put the littler kids to bed (bedtime got delayed that night). The problem is, that at 9:15 p.m., shortly after Daughter #1 began her Kichels time, Son #2 came home from yeshiva.

Uh-oh. He wanted Kichels. “I should get it. This is the only time I can read it. You have all day.” He had a point. I needed a brilliant mom solution. “Ok. Here’s the deal. One of you gets it until 10 p.m. The other one of you gets it for the rest of the night.”

My son chose the “from now until 10 p.m.” time slot. We all had to make another deal: When Son #1 gets home from yeshiva, no one can let him know that The Kichels 3 is in the house. No one can let him know until we all finish it. We all agreed to keep quiet, or we knew that all our own turns would be in jeopardy. 

This was all fine and dandy, until I went upstairs to fetch The Kichels 3 from my son’s room at 10 p.m. He knew I was coming, and he wasn’t quite ready to give it up. I couldn’t open the door. I looked through the crack in the door and saw a pillow and his nose. He had moved his bed from the corner of the room up against the door so that no one could get in and disturb his Kichels reading.

It took a lot of threats to get him to open that door (“I’m not driving you anywhere on your off Shabbos!” “I’m not buying Rita’s Ices for Shabbat!”).

Finally, he opened. I quickly flipped the book to my daughter, told her to run into my bedroom (“Quick, before Son #1 realizes that we have the book!) and let her lock the door. She stayed in my closet reading The Kichels for the rest of the night.

It took some teamwork, but we were able to keep The Kichels 3 a secret from Son #1 for a couple more days, until we all had time to finish reading. 

Why do we all love The Kichels? We get to laugh at our own lives. It makes us feel like people understand us. Like we’re all in this together. It shows us the funny nuances of our days in a way that no one else ever can or has. Creators Bracha Stein and Chani Judowitz are, frankly, quite brilliant and we hope they keep writing Kichels strips for years to come. 

But for now, there’s a whole new collection waiting for you! Get The Kichels Collection 3 now at Feldheim.com and get 20% off and free shipping! (Or, if you really can’t wait until it arrives, drive right now to your local Jewish bookstore. Like I did last year.)