Friday, April 10, 2009

Passover

We are now in the second day of Passover and you can pretty much tell where I've sat at work by the matzah crumbs on the carpet. It's impossible to eat matzah without making a mess.

I went to a couple of seders this year, one at Rachel's school and the other at the house of friends. Rachel had three passages to read at the classroom service and she was nervous about them, though I can tell you proudly that she nailed them and was one of the best readers in the class, in my not so humble opinion.

There was one section of the service where two girls placed a doll in a basket, representing Moses, onto a blue cloth held by the boys and girls in the class. It was to symbolize his mother casting him along the water to avoid the plague of the first-born. Of course, boys will be boys. The boys in the class immediately tried to capsize Moses, while the girls, including my daughter, being nurturing, did not find it funny at all.

There was one chuckle for me. As the Israelites were urged to teach the ways of
G-D "dilgently upon their children", I heard my daughter say "diligently UNTIL your children." Once you have kids, it's apparently all out the window.

All in all, it was enjoyable although Rachel's music teacher didn't know the hand gestures Rachel and Rebecca put together in the rewrite of the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" to fit the Passover story. "Pharaoh, Pharaoh....oh oh--let my people go now....."

Two nights later, we went to our friends' Bob and Francesca's house for seder. Rachel did us proud. When asked what Passover was about, she answered correctly and when it came time for the Four Questions, she sang proudly. It touches my heart to see how my child is learning.

After the traditional meal, the children are to hunt for a hidden matzah and since Rachel was the only child present, it was pretty much a certainty she'd find it and claim her prizes, which she did. Francesca's mother gave her a Fancy Nancy book with stickers and Francesca and Bob gave her what looked like some yummy chocolate.

Rachel loves chocolate and comes by her addiction naturally. She peeled off the wrapper and was told nopt to eat it all at once. Then to my amazement, she continued to break off pieces of chocolate, distributing them to the other eight people around the table, until all the chocolate was gone.

She then retired to the family room to watch the Noggin Children's Channel on Satellite Channel 64. I told her that we didn't have that channel at home. She insisted we did, because channel 64 on our cable tv system is Nickelodeon. I wasn't about to get into a discussion of cable versus satellite tv, so taking a cue from Pharoah, I let it go.

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