Following The Ancient Paths

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Reflections from Sukkot

Posted in Holidays and Celebrations

Boy, anyone who has been using Safari on their Mac should consider using HSB on Firefox instead!  WOW!  I'm very imressed!  Let's just see if this post turns out like it should....

I thought I'd post a few picts of the family (minus the oldest boy, Yishai) from Sukkot.  That way you can see that we REALLY are people and we REALLY did venture out into the beautiful and DRY outside this year for Sukkot.  :)  (Oh, the emoticons are going to get me in trouble!)

This is DH and the kids:  Clockwise we have DH, Reuven, Shalom, Shumela, Sara, Miriam, Eliezer. 


Then a similar picture with me.  See our Yeshua in a Succah wall hanging behind me in the corner.  :)


We had gifts for the kids on the first night of Sukkot.  We try to do small gifts ($1 or so) for the kids on the first night of holidays, just for fun.  We decided to do this a while ago because we didn't want the gifts to be the primary focus of the holy day and we didn't want to omit gift giving or reserve it just for Hanukkah and end up with Hanukkah being a replacement of Christmas.  This year there were a few yo-yos, a gell-tube thingy, a rubber tipped dart-board (that we attached to the outside of the succah for the kids to play with during the week) and a Jenga game.  They stayed in a harvest style basket inside the succah all week (well, until it rained). 

We slept outside as a family only once but the kids slept outside a few times.  They had fun.  DH spent a few years working on ranches in northern Canada where he slept in the barns.  Camping is not something he's fond of and sleeping on the ground is something he's also not fond of, saying "I've done my time sleeping on the ground and in the hay.  My body can't do that anymore."  But he did sleep one night outside and boy was it COLD!  At least it was dry.

The week was good and we enjoyed our first and eighth day Shabbats with family and friends.  The 8th day was an extra special blessing with so many friends coming to our house to share with us, we were so blessed! 

Did I mention that Firefox is such a better browser to use on your Mac than Safari here at HSB?  I'm not kidding!  WOW!  I'm loving this!!  :D

Okay, I'm going to go play with my Firefox at other sites now...

Blessings!


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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - HI

Posted by MoreLittleWilsons


You're absolutely lovely and so is your family.

We built a sukkah, and the boys slept in it 3 nights, but we never ate in it because we were sukkah hopping. I had 50 people here on the Wednesday, but it was too cold to be out there..... I know, Just Do It.. but we didn't.


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Thursday, October 19, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by FollowingTheAncientPaths


LOL We only had about half the number of people you did - around 25. But we didn't eat in the succah that day either, we ate inside. The weather was so nice that we ate lunch and most dinners in the succah all week. Beautiful to be outside in the crisp fall air, before the rains came. We were so blessed. :) LOL It sounds like you did "Just Do It" to me!


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