We ventured out on a chol hamoed outing today. Partly inside and partly outside was the plan - it's chag ha'aviv, right? We should be able to picnic and possibly take a short hike.

Ha.

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A thought popped into my head today. Someone should write the Jewish version of the children's book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". They could call it "If You Give a Meshulach a Dollar".

The megillot are on the shelf, the box of graggers and extra packing materials are in the closet and my cute headscarf with the masks is in the back of the drawer!

So where do I pick up my Good Housekeeping award?

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I've taken a couple of vacation days for Chanukah (yay vacation time!) Yesterday I took the two youngest on an outing, but today they are back in school, so I had a day to fill. Mostly, I've been removing wallpaper paste from the walls in our front entry hall (Up the ladder, scrub, down the ladder. Move the ladder six inches. Repeat.) But I ( Read more... )

It's never a good thing to get a phone call from your son 7000 miles away asking "So, what do you know about food poisoning?"

Oh dear.

Turns out, he probably did eat something that disagreed with him, but he's okay now.

Ah, the joys of letting go...

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Trying to prepare some vegetabley freezable stuff today.

I've got

Braised Red Cabbage

Spinach Vegetable Kugel

Broccoli Kugel with more eggs, less mayo

And a several Vegetable Pies

And also a batch of challah and a pineapple cake.

Eh. So so on the accomplishment list. But I had to do a shopping before I could start, so that took away time

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