Has it really been an
entire week? My last post was on 02 September, so I guess it has. How did that
week fly by so quickly?
The long and short
story is that we had a wonderful holiday. The first night, the ten of us
gathered at Simmie and Ronen’s house for a lovely dinner. Ronen’s family
follows a tradition of eating particular fruits before the start of the meal,
with an explanation of the significance and symbolism of each fruit before it
is eaten. Simmie, ever the preschool teacher, put the explanation for each fruit
on a piece of paper, and Ronen distributed them so that we would each have
something to read. This sounds quite a bit more serious than it is,
particularly with the children enthusiastically expressing their pleasure or
displeasure at some of the selections (beets, pomegranates, cabbage). The tradition
is to have a whole fish on the table as well as fish tails. In deference to the
vegetarians, Simmie has found a fitting substitute: candy jelly fish and
chocolate fish. The latter are made every year for the holiday by a local
chocolatier, and Simmie told us that every year she has the same discussion
with the proprietor about why people are coming to her shop before Jewish New
Year asking for chocolate fish!
We then ate our way
through three days. After a lovely dinner with Simmie and Ronen the first
evening, Barry and I prepared lunches at our apartment for after synagogue, the
first day with Simmie and family while Dina and family were with friends, and
the second day with Dina and family while Simmie and family were with friends. I
had it all written down to keep it straight! Then on Sabbath, Simmie and crew
went to a friend while Barry and I had lunch at Dina’s house. It was a
beautiful day so we spent a good part of the afternoon sitting outside. All in
all, it was a very lovely three days that went by very quickly.
We drove back to New
York Sunday morning, and spent a good part of the day doing mundane things like
laundry and taking care of the mail. Today Barry had meetings most of the day,
so I am here having a quiet day.
I have a new project
in mind. All these picture projects got us to thinking that we should try to
put together albums to chronicle our lives over the past nine years as
grandparents. I cannot quite remember just when I started loading pictures on
to Kodak Gallery (now Shutterfly), but I believe we had the digital camera by
the time Joshua was born and that I have saved all the memory cards we used. At
least I hope I did. Putting together some pictures and writing a few paragraphs
on Simmie’s early months, which I did for the daughter of a Pfizer colleague
for a Bat Mitzvah project, got me to thinking about doing this. I suspect it
could keep me busy for a long time.
Have a good week!
Love,
Rebecca
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