Random Musings During Sukkot

After 3 weeks of a nasty cough, I was on the road to recovery and woke up the night before last with a killer sinus infection draining all over 3am was the marker, no sleep after that. My acupuncturist was able to squeeze me in yesterday and attempt to alleviate the sinus infection in question. Both girls were in preschool, so I could do that! I now have a yucky head cold, but the sinus pain radiating across my whole left jaw is......GONE! It was either the acupuncture, the herbs he gave me, or the XClear xylitol nose spray I bought at Elephant Pharm our new hippie pharmacy. I think it might have been the XClear. It worked last time too! The acupuncture may have also helped. It did not go away THAT fast last time.

Our good friend A had her baby last Friday, so the Bris (circumcision ceremony) is tomorrow. It's also baby J's welcome-to-the-world party. You do not want to hear about the conversation A's Bee and our Chispa had about cutting vaginas at preschool yesterday. We are theorizing that someone mentioned what really happens at a Bris to Bee. Extrapolation is a problem here.

Our good friend C always cooks too much food for Yom Kippur break the fast, we love you C!, so I have a ton of dessert in my 2nd freezer that I MUST NOT FORGET to defrost for the Bris tomorrow.

Today (and for the next week) is Sukkot, a harvest holiday where you build a hut like dwelling in your backyard and eat meals in it. We got an easy up Sukkah this year, and it was, in fact EASY to put together. I did it myself! Chispa is in love with it, and has been busily decorating it with drawings of the fruits of harvest.

Ours looks like the Sukkah posted above. We got it from here. http://www.sukkot.com/


Because it's Sukkot (the 1st 2 days are formal holidays), no school. So I took both kids to the park for Changa's Play Group. We all had fun, the kids played, and I could sit on my duff in the shade and chat with my friends. That's good, because I still was feeling pretty draggy from the cold.

Changa is doing great with the potty training, and can hold her pee at least 2 hrs. for the most part now, if not longer. We don't test HOW long she can hold it, but it's clearly working. She sometimes has accidents, but for the most part, she's doing really well.

We are going to Rabbi Flak (not her real name), our new Rabbi's house for dinner. Flak is also the college roommate of my friend S's, so we've adopted her in, plus she is now our Rabbi! I love that my kids run into her arms, and will let her help bathe them etc, which Flak has now done twice, when over for dinner. This paradigm is a lot different than the Rabbi's I encountered as a kid!

The kids have to call her "Rabbi Flak", because they are too young to distinguish that they must call her that at school etc. It's hard because I call her by her first name!!!! Changa can't say Rabbi, and calls her Babi Flak.

Our trees just got trimmed too and they look way better. Our apricot got uber-trimmed. We are going to try to train it to go sideways instead of straight up, so that we can get more of the fruit, as opposed to the squirrels.

Is that random enough?