Happy Passover!

[rachelmanija]

I have made fried honey-and-red wine sauce chikcen and drunk two glasses of Reisling. Did not have time to have lunch. Can't wait for four glasses of wine on an empty stomach (not counting bits of crispy chicke skin I snarfed from the pan.) We have more food lurking in the fridge, and am also making leg of lamb with rosemary and curry powder and

Comments

[asakiyume]

Happy Passover!

I know it's required on Purim (okay, at least recommedned) to get so drunk

The typo in this makes it extra cute. ^_^)

[cmattg]

Clearly more households need to add a wet t-shirt contest to their Passover traditions....

[marzipan_pig]

DRUNK wet-tshirt contest! :)

[ejmam]

My kids hated juice. The older one still does. It made for free mommy-points, because I gave the water, which is what you *supposed* to do. If you are aware of the existence of mommy-points, it is important to cherish all the free ones, whether it's that your kids love to sleep on their backs, or spontaneously potty-train, or sleep through the night from infancy, or whatever they happen to do that makes the doctors happy.

Happy Passover! Although my only Jewish connection is through children's books, I was always sad that it would never have been my turn to ask the questions, since I had an older brother. (All-of-a-kind Family for the cosy connection.)

[adrian_turtle]

I never got the chance to ask the questions when I was a kid, because I was the "youngest" kid for a little while...but my [expletive] little brother learned to read before he was 3, when everybody (including me) was still thinking I was just a little kid--somebody to get read to, not somebody who reads part of the service like the adults.

But it's never too late! Two of the last 3 years, I've had seder with Redbird's aunt, and her extended family. In that family, I'm the youngest, so I ask the four questions. (Redbird has a bunch of cousins, none of which have kids.) And by the standards of that family, I have a good singing voice. It's a strange set of coincidences...but what really makes it worth the trip is that they're all so kind and welcoming. Nicer than the family I grew up with, really.

[mme_hardy]

Yes. Hold your mommypoints tight. I may have fed them on Annie's Shells for 17 years because that was all they would eat, but by God we read to them.

[consonantia]

You are the cutest drunk ever.

[thomasyan]

Since they say juice has too much sugar, I've been calling it sugar water for years. On the other hand, apparently it does not make hyperactive kids act up.

[adrian_turtle]

It depends on the hyperactive kid. Some kids react to sugar, and fruit juice really does set them off. Fruit juice only avoids reactions to dye, caffeine, alcohol, and artificial sweetener.

A child in my extended family did not have any juice until she was 4. Before that, she just had fruit or wine. Friday nights when she was a baby, her parents would do the blessing over wine, dip a fingertip in the cup, and give her a taste. And when she was old enough to drink from a cup, they'd give her a little sip. But when she was 4, the social pressure against giving a child wine clashed with the social pressure against juice, and clashed with their own sensibilities that the blessing is *supposed* to be over wine. So now they do the blessing over grape juice...and all three say "amen" after kiddush, then each parent takes a little ritual sip, wincing a bit at the taste, and the 6-year-old eagerly drinks the rest of the cup.