Don't Ask Me How I'm Doing!

We live in a pretty Orthodox community. Our formerly American next-door neighbor is very friendly but when we ask her the typical American question, "How are you doing?," her answer is always just, "Baruch Hashem." This translates to "Blessed is G-d." Of course, this is a very religious way of responding but we keep forgetting not to ask her how she's doing because we'll always get that answer!

Thus, we never develop our neighborly relationship any further because she doesn’t tell us anything about what she's up to and we are actually curious. This happened two times today, once on our way to lunch with an old friend and once when we came back.