If, in the past year, I have done anything to hurt or offend you, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I beg your forgiveness. I hope that in the coming year I may do better ( Read more... )

If, in the past year, I have done anything to hurt or offend you, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I beg your forgiveness. I hope that in the coming year I may do better ( Read more... )

Barak's preschool does what a lot of Jewish preschools do. They have a Shabbat Bear that kids get a chance to bring home and celebrate Shabbat with. Then you take some pictures, type up a little story about what the bear did with you, and it gets added to the book ( Read more... )

For your amusement, my to-do list. Not in actual order of importance and not including anything I need to do for my paying job (because that list would take too long ( Read more... )

If, in the past year, I have done anything to hurt or offend you, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I beg your forgiveness. I hope that in the coming year I may do better ( Read more... )

Poll A Very Important Passover Poll

It's almost Pesach, there's several inches of snow on the ground, and Avi's going to work, leaving me with Mayer and both kids. My parents are going to freak out when they realize it's snowing, which will lead to much calling back and forth about whether or not they're going to the seder. The California and Florida Fishmans are going to whine about ( Read more... )

As several other folks on my flist have noted, I'm not doing any kind of year in review thing, because on the whole, this year sucked like a Hoover. A really messy noisy obnoxious one. The only bright spots were my kids being adorable, Avi getting the new job, and MsC getting married ( Read more... )

Argl. I would really like to write this piece for the Purim issue of the shul newsletter, but I'm not feeling the funny. The gag is that we're changing all our kiddush foods to "organically grown, locally sourced, sustainably harvested, and environmentally friendly ( Read more... )

I just posted this on FB, but it's as appropriate here as it was there ( Read more... )