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Most of us start each new year with the intent to do all of the stuff that we meant to do but didn't in the previous year. We'll pul...

This was Miss M last year at Passover.  Here she is this year. She is wise to the matzah.  She is counting the minutes until the hol...

The best thing about having a little girl around on V-Day... is dressing her in cute outfits covered with hearts.  Later we'll add a...

Happy New Year to you all and Happy 7th Blogiversary to me. How did you celebrate the arrival of this fresh, new, year? We celebrated wit...

We survived another Thanksgiving trek to New York. We visited family and friends and had lots of laughs and good food. We also did a wee b...

May the candles burn bright.

Yesterday was Halloween and it was unlike any that Bruce and I had experienced before. The best way to describe it was an intersection. On...

Last week I took a few days off to celebrate the Jewish New Year. As always it was filled with friends and family but it was extra sweet th...

It was another softball weekend. One in which I had the pleasure (or misfortune) of watching Stinkerbelle's team warm up as the sun rose...

I'm back at work again after a holiday weekend that became longer and busier than expected. It's all good but I am exhausted after b...

Last weekend we celebrated Purim. It's yet another Jewish holiday that follows the general outline: they tried to kill us, we won, let...

Happy Hannukah or Chanukah or Hanukkah or however you choose to spell it. We celebrated in the usual way by lighting candles and eating latk...

The title of this post pretty much sums it all up and it was really all very good. Going into the weekend we had plans to belatedly celebrat...

Last week's Ten on Tuesday topic was Ten Foods You Hate . I put it off because I was in the middle of a pre-Passover love affair with fo...

Zaydie. You can spell it any way you want and it still means the same thing.My grandfather, one of my favorite people. Below you can see him...

It was a wonderful weekend full of the usual errands and a few parties. Stinkette and I put together several plates of cookies to take with ...

Isn't scheduled posting wonderful? I'm actually in services today observing Yom Kippur with my family. We set this day apart by forg...

For the past few weeks I've been busy planning and preparing for the Passover holiday. I visited many supermarkets - some 4 or 5 times -...

I admit that usually,holidays like Presidents Day just mean another day to do errands, watch a movie or vegetate at home. Today was the exce...

Happy New Year! This was my house last night. What you can't share with me are the accompanying giggles, screams and general ruckus. DQ...