Light, Life, Love

We had such a fun day! Yesterday we flew all day, ate dinner at the mall food court and went to bed at like 8pm (CST). We were tired! Today we started out by eating breakfast at the hotel and headed to Touro synagogue for services. It was a very typical reform saturday morning service. Talyah and I played in the children's play area pretty much the whole time. This synagogue however doesn't look like a typical reform synagogue. It is huge, old and gorgeous. We had a nice time looking at all the stained glass windows. After services we headed over Magazine Street where we walked for awhile and found a cute little cafe and had panini's and Talyah had a peanut butter sandwhich. We walked over to whole foods from there and bought sunblock (which I had left at the hotel) and grapes to munch on. We then headed up to Audobon Park to walk around and landed ourselves at Soul Fest at the zoo. It was very crowded but it was a great zoo day and the music and southern fare f...

For the first time in months I am not stressed at all about anything. It is an amazing feeling that I don't get that often. I seem to have managed to get everything in order that had to be. I have no real big projects coming up that I know about it. All that is coming up for me is a vacation to New Orleans with James and Talyah and then Passover. Passover used to stress me out real bad but after 4 years of hosting big seders I finally have it figured out. My menu is pretty set. I now know to preorder my kosher chickens so then I just have to go to Trader Joes to pick them up, no more driving to every possible supermarket in a 60 mile radius to find what I need. The local supermarket in town that carries kosher stuff does not sell out as quickly as markets back east did, so after payday next week I should be able to buy all the matzah, cake meal, blah blah without too much of a hassle. Plus at this point I really like hosting the seder. We had 29 people last year in my tin...