Traditions

[deird_lj]

We celebrated Passover last night.
(Yes, I said Passover. No, my family hasn't suddenly converted to Judaism. No, Passover isn't supposed to be for another month. Yes, we're very weird. Moving on...)

It's very different now that we've got the boys. For one thing, the order was kind of skewed. Sort of along the lines of "Caleb needs his nappy changed - can we do the Afikomen bit now?" and we all flip forward three pages, do that bit, and then flip back to where we're supposed to be up to...

And now that they can talk, I have officially resigned my post as the "youngest". (The youngest being responsible for asking a whole bunch of questions - and even though Alex was there last year, he couldn't ask questions, so I still did.) This year, Alex had been carefully practicing, so that whenever he was supposed to ask something, he'd say "Pa, why?" ...and we'd all interpret this, correctly, to be "why do we eat these bitter herbs..."

Caleb still can't grasp the idea of questions, but he had been taught how to say "hooray!" and wave his arms excitedly. So whenever we were doing "hallelujah"s, he'd chime in with another "hooray!"

Also, instead of reading the Passover story from Exodus, we read it from a picture book, and the whole thing became much more once-upon-a-time-y.

Overall? Much more chaotic - and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Was the festive meal Pesadecka? (ie, no flour of any kind?)

And yeah, kind of weird. We just started buying our Passover supplies.

[the-starshadow.livejournal.com]

Being Buddhist and part Thai, I have no idea about this whole Passover thing. Thais tend to celebrate feasts "whenever we can find a suitable excuse". Which is why a 98% Buddhist nation still celebrates Christmas... :P