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Last night started the Jewish holiday of Passover and we headed over to my parents’ house for a shortened and highly modified seder with four kids (two were mine and two were my newest cousins) and a good friend and an Uncle and an Aunt and grandparents and a lovely wife and me (of course). We read the four questions and I forced the youngest of the last generation (Uncle Roger) to read them with me (since I am the youngest who could read Hebrew). We talked about plagues and strange tasting wine. We ate two flavors of gefilte fish and I ended up with three pieces somehow (possibly due to a daughter’s questioning of the taste). Fun was had all around and lots of pictures were taken.
But the photo above is obviously not from our ordered meal (the president just couldn’t make it to our house this year). Starting in 2008, Obama has been attending Seders with his staff and in 2009 he began a new tradition of a traditional Passover meal in the White House. The New York Times has the full scoop, but the short version is: the President attends a seder not with dignitaries, but with all Jewish members of his staff and the first family (his daughters even read the four questions). The pic above is taken from the official White House Flickr feed. If you look closely at the Haggadahs in the hands of the attendees you will see a simple book that is actually the same one Mandy and I used for our small seder in New Jersey while living up there so I could work in Philadelphia after Katrina.
Happy Chag and Chag Sameach!

Wondering if that should say blogging instead.

Remember the good old days of blogging for bloggingneworleans.com and posting at flashinsider.com name dropping

Etc etc

Thinking that brain fart posting may be interesting if done more than once every six months

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Going to tell my wife and kids I love them

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Where did the smile come from?

During the Ma’ariv (the evening service), Annabel came back to where Grandpa and I were sitting with Mama, Harry and Grandma. In order to get her to stay quiet for the final minutes of the fast, I told her we would stand on the Bima (stage up front), hear the Shofar be blown to signify the official end of the holiday, and then She would get to have a cookie during the Break-Fast (for me).

So they call all the children up front. I pick up Annabel and Mandy takes Harry. I quiet her down again on the stage and we hear the Tekiyah Gedolah (the Sans boy knocks it out of the park as usual) and immediately Annabel says, “All done, cookie Daddy!” with a big smile. Unfortunately there was still a couple minutes left before the cookie eating, but she did get her yummy sugar fix in the end.

Another phone based post coming at ya(now with pics).

Apparently we have reached the point in the toddler’s life when going to sleep easy can only be done with hours of running around and playing. Unfortunately rain day can cause huge issues like last nights I’m gonna scream in this crib or rest on daddy for hours on end tantrum. Ugh. So I ended up getting her into bed at 4am and was unable to fall asleep myself until 6:30 or so, but I think I may have caught a few zzzs while waiting for her to pass out cause I’m mostly rested today…… Mostly.

Anyway if not for coffee and cappuccinos with extra shots I would be dead to the world. Can’t wait to see my first week back at work will be like. I think the wife will have a hardly go of it but I think she will handle it better than I could…

Expect more rambling posts in the future.

This is a pic of annabel asleep in my arms on her 21 month birthday.