Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

East-over

The last few years my side of the family has combined our Easter and Passover celebrations into one day (which my sister dubbed "Eastover"). We had a good time discussing the gratuitous violence in the Easter Play at my parents church (SO not my style of celebrating Jesus' resurrection, from now on we'll visit my parents church for less Mel Gibson "Passion of the Christ" style services). Ella also got to meld her Jewish and Christian heritages by searching for the affikomen (matzoh you hide for passover and get $ for when you find it) and hunt for Easter eggs, all within an hour.  It was also Ella's first time reciting the 4 questions (one of the parts of the Passover ceremony) which is supposed to be done by the youngest child.  Growing up, that always fell to my sister but this year she read it outloud and Ella repeated it after her.  I think my grandmother can now die happily, seeing her heritage passed on to this generation :-) 


So, this is actually Mother's Day. Oops.  Oh well. Same location, a few weeks later :-)

Reading the 4 questions


My grandmother couldn't resist buying this cake for Ella and she clearly got a kick out of it

Ella was caught green-handed with some green chocolate bugs :-)


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