As predicted, we had a fun time at our temple last night. Here’s the evidence: I know, I know, this photo is on the blurry side. But I wanted to show you a bit of the costume finery that showed up. When his parents got up to do a reading, a youngster (actually a former student in my second grade religious school class!) left these goodies, hoping his parents wouldn’t notice them before sitting down. They did. Remember the part about how we have to make noise to drown out the name of that evil guy during the story? They had a “Noise” sign that they held up for a…

Happy Purim to all of my Jewish readers! (Do I have any?) Tonight we head over to our temple for the reading of the Story of Esther. It is sure to be loud and fun, because it’s supposed to be! Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version: Way back in the day in the land of Shushan, King Ahasuerus wanted his wife, Queen Vashti, to appear before his buddies wearing only her crown. She refused to do that, and he banished her from the kingdom. After that, he wanted to find a new Queen so he conducted something like a beauty pageant and chose Esther from hundreds of “applicants”. Mordecai, Esther’s uncle…

Although I don’t participate in Wordless Wednesday, I thought today would be a good day to put up some of the fab photos that my sister took on our family’s big day. I will just post them without captions, which will make it Wordless. Oh. But I just put a bunch of words up here to explain my post, so I guess it’s not Wordless at all then, is it? Okay, let’s call it “Shy Wednesday.” Here we go!

I am finally ready to give the low-down on the Bar Mitzvah party! You remember, don’t you? The Bar Mitzvah? It happenned almost two weeks ago? If you forgot, read this. And maybe this. But you don’t have to. Keep in mind that the limited photos I will be posting today are from my own digital camera and from the disposable cameras that we placed on every table at the reception (the quality of those isn’t so great, but they’re fun!). When I get photos from Joozie/Julie/Aunt Doody/Jules, I’ll post a couple of the good ones. So, where was I? Oh yes, the party. After the service at the temple,…