It's 40 degrees, the sun is warm, my son is holding snow and the tables are covered like a blanket. We are at my sister in law's home, she is having twenty guests, her husband's family is a Cohen, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_(surname) from Morocco, it is going to be a fun and interesting Seder, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_Seder.
Three of their guests were driving yesterday from Louisiana, their Uhaul that they were driving slid on the road and flipped over, it is still in the snow. Miraculously they all walked away, at the motel right next door they met a fellow Jew who was driving to Denver and had room for them.
Recently there was sad news about a shooting of a Jewish community in Kansas,
http://www.kshb.com/news/region-kansas/overland-park/suspect-in-jewish-community-shootings-identified. A friend of mine wrote that her sister usually took her kids swimming there but that day had a feeling not to go. I am always amazed at how life happens, and those are big things. On a small scale while I was driving around with my mother in law today I kept on going in the wrong direction and had to ask where I was multiple times, but it led us to some yummy doughnuts for the kids, our last Chometz, any type of grain or leavened bread, we will not be eating it for the 8 days. The kids know no pizza, pasta, cookies, cakes, and any type of bread. Kids favorite foods of course, but it is amazing how they understand it, they learn it in school. We are honoring and celebrating the Jewish people who were slaves and Egypt and when finally freed, they didn't have time to wait for the bread to rise, therefore we eat matzo. I love how it is compared to the ego, when the Jews left Egypt just like the bread didn't rise, there was no ego just gratitude, hope, faith, and trust.
I just read that this holiday is also called the holiday of Matzot, and in Hebrew Mitzvot is spelled exactly the same, so it is the holiday of following the specific laws and doing good deeds.
Anyway back to my day, so from all the running around I also stopped into a store to book a family photo and the guy handed me a 50% coupon! My mother in law got all my kids a gift they chose, and me my favorite face moisturizer.
My aunt that lives in Denver is joining us tonight for the holiday, my husband is helping his sister cook up a storm, he has been in the kitchen all day, my job is to get the kids out of the way, now its nap time before getting ready.
Happy Passover,
Chag Sameach,
Coach Yulia
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