It's been a long time. I've been busy getting my book ready for publication, so I didn't really have much time for updating my blogs. But I tried to make up for that now, and posted some pictures of what we've been up to lately.
You'll find them on my Home-Ed Picture Blog.
The picture below (not posted to my picture blog) is a naughty example of Fran's love for word-play.
Sometimes I really wish we had not taught her how to read and write...
We first met five years ago. She came to me for help and advice. More than that, she needed me to listen to her story, to all that she’d been through. What could I do but listen? Listen with not just my ears, but with my heart.
She was special to me. Very special. Last night, she died and I am overwhelmed with a strange kind of grief. We were not even friends, not in the common sense of the word, anyway. Yet, I experience her death as a great personal loss.
Ha'el natan verak ha'El yikach
What can I say?
We just had the most delicious Matzah Pizza for lunch.
I love Pesach!
But only after all the cleaning and kashering has been done.
Bought the day before Pesach, so we could watch the video during the Pesach week: "The Prince of Egypt" on DVD.
We loved it.
Beautiful!
Today I want to share this great Pesach Clip with you: Get Down with Moses, by Brandon Harris Walker. We love it; this guy is so funny! But not just funny, the message is clear - and very accessible to our young people.
Whereas most people in the western world celebrate Easter this weekend, we are celebrating Pesach for a whole week. Last Wednesday night was the first night of Pesach.
During our Seder on Erev Pesach, we read from the Haggadah and tell our children about how our G-d rescued our people from the slavery and oppression in Egypt.
After half a day of cleaning and kashering (yes, I take a very relaxed approach to Pesach cleaning), and half a day of cooking, we enjoyed a wonderful festive meal as a family.
We laid the table with a new table cloth, and our special Pesachdik china (sorry, the picture isn't the best in the world...), and after we lit the candles for Pesach, we gathered around the table for our Seder.
Fran put everything we needed on the Seder plate. The bitter herbs, charoset, shankbone (well... actually a (grilled) chicken bone that we keep for that purpose as we don't eat meat, and the chicken bone was easier to get by), the egg, spring vegetables, and a small bowl filled with salty water.
Of course we had matzah too.
Our main course was the traditional - traditional for us, anyway - Matzah Lasagna. No picture of that, I'm afraid - it was too yummie!
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