more on pesach prep 31 Mar 06
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projgen found this great guide to reducing pesach pressure. One thing that bothers me is the statement, “Never let your husband, or especially children, hear you kvetch (complain) about how hard you’re working, how dried out your hands have become, how tired you are, etc. If you must vent, talk to your sister, rebbetzin, mother or friends. Your family will appreciate the holiday much more if they have the sense that you enjoyed preparing for it.” Uhm.. my husband helps. We couldn’t imagine it any other way. There are somethings that only I do, but that is because my work schedule has me home at an earlier hour. There are some things only he does (and this is year-round as well) because I don’t like doing them. I’d say our pesach prep is pretty evenly split between the two of us. So I don’t fully understand that statement, but whatever. We don’t go crazy, there is no need to.
In early Friday procrastination and randomness I meandered through ritualwell earlier today and found this T’chine for Passover. Interesting.
I do need to go through my cookbooks (including this wonderful one) and decide what I’m cooking and baking this pesach and lock away the ones that have been cooked in. Oh and schedule an appointment with my inlaws vacuum the car. It’s these little things that I often forget. I have to find my “forbidden foods” list too. Even though I cook simple things and take my husband with me when shopping, I sometimes forget if a food is kitniyot or not. It’s the one thing that drives me absolutely batty about pesach and something I didn’t know about until I was in University. No rice, peas, corn. *sigh*
Ok, back to work.
gut shabbos.
it’s that time of year . . . 28 Mar 06
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when thoughts turn to renewals and beginnings.
It’s spring and slowly we begin to see renewal and new beginnings sprout and chirp around us. The merriment of Adar and Purim is drawing to a close and Nisan is about to blossom. I’m a bit early for parts of this post, but as I have a little bit of time to edit and polish this, I thought I would do it now before pesach preparations completely over take me.
