We celebrated Hanukkah at our house on Sunday night. Daddy-J grew up jewish, and although Mama-V and Daddy-J are both atheists and the kids are too little to know what they want to believe, we try to bring some of their family's heritage to their lives.
Anyway, Sunday night was the first night of Hanukkah. Mama-V made a brisket and latkes (Daddy-J helped with those) and a yummy almond cake.
After dinner, we lit the menorah and the kids got to look for hidden gelt.
Then they each opened a gift...
We all really enjoyed the evening. And I think the kids learned a little bit about Hanukkah (besides what they'd already learned at school).
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Only in our family would there be a Gingerbread house, a decorated Christmas Tree and a Menorah on the same day! :-) Too Funny!!
ReplyDeleteWe have a Christmas tree and a Menorah but this Mommy can't find candles to go in the Menorah. So we are going to make fake ones for the effect!
Last year the Vegman said he "HAD" to have a Menorah like his Aunt in Florida did... so we got one and only found enough candles for one year! *smile*
Looks like your gift giving and gelt searching was quite a fun event.