Moadim L’simcha (seasons for joy!)

I just love this time of year!! Holidays, holidays, and more holidays. Sukkot begins in just a few hours and I’m not ready.

Actually, I’m not going to be ready in the way I would want to be ready — and I have determined that it is OK.

I want so much to provide my kids with a rich and celebratory Jewish home life. Sukkot is such an easy way to do this…unless..

one is a Jewish professional with three kids, no nanny, and a husband somewhere in the Far East for a fortnight (love this word. topic of future entry!!).

So I am packing us up for the night so we can hang in Bubbe and Zayde’s sukkah. It so happens that my kiddies LOVE this holiday and were initially unsympathetic in their response to the news that there was no way on God’s green earth that we were going to get a sukkah up in time for the chag. The news that we would be in Bubbe’s sukkah, however, was met with happy relief!

So moadim l’simcha, chag sameach, a guten moied — happy holiday!!