Lights in the Darkness
Dec. 21st, 2008 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songspinnerHannukah at my parent's place...my menorah, my mom's, and my daughter's were all lit on the table. And in typical family tradition, I reiterate - "never let the soprano or the tenor pick the key to sing the blessings in". Sigh. So my mom started it low, my sister and I joined her, and my daughter sang most of it a full octave up.
Lots of loot for the granddaughter (including a proper copy of The Hobbit with Tolkien's own illustrations, of course). She hugged it. :) That's my kid.
Latkes (potato pancakes) with applesauce, games of dreidel played for dried cherries. My sister gave me a lovely pashima shawl, my parents gave me a DVD set of this Canadian show about a theater company that's apparently very funny, and my mother was totally delighted with the medieval and Byzantine coins we gave her for her collection.
On the non-Jewish but still social-justice front, my husband's students are awesome. Instead of a present exchange party, they voted to collect toys instead because the local Salvation Army didn't have enough for all the families that need them. And then since they were leaving for vacation, dontated the school tree as well. (it's a private school, and their tree had multiple holiday traditions on it and some stuff from the science classes) So my husband put on a Santa hat, took the tree and took boxes of toys over to the site, and was tickled to discover that there were families with kids waiting there, so he got to see some of the kids getting their presents!
And a happy Solstice as well!
Lots of loot for the granddaughter (including a proper copy of The Hobbit with Tolkien's own illustrations, of course). She hugged it. :) That's my kid.
Latkes (potato pancakes) with applesauce, games of dreidel played for dried cherries. My sister gave me a lovely pashima shawl, my parents gave me a DVD set of this Canadian show about a theater company that's apparently very funny, and my mother was totally delighted with the medieval and Byzantine coins we gave her for her collection.
On the non-Jewish but still social-justice front, my husband's students are awesome. Instead of a present exchange party, they voted to collect toys instead because the local Salvation Army didn't have enough for all the families that need them. And then since they were leaving for vacation, dontated the school tree as well. (it's a private school, and their tree had multiple holiday traditions on it and some stuff from the science classes) So my husband put on a Santa hat, took the tree and took boxes of toys over to the site, and was tickled to discover that there were families with kids waiting there, so he got to see some of the kids getting their presents!
And a happy Solstice as well!
