Hannukah

The girls really got into Hannukah this year. In years past, we have just lit all of the candles of the menorah on one night, maybe said the prayer, hid some gelt, and did a present.

This year, the girls had been learning about Hannukah at school, and they knew that it was supposed to last for 8 nights, and they knew that the candles were supposed to be lit one every night, and they knew about playing dreidel. So we did the whole thing this year. We said the prayers every night. We lit the right number of candles on the menorah every night (in the right order, even!). We taught them how to play dreidel, and gave them gelt to play with.

They loved it!