Jewish Holidays

Today was Rosh Hashanah. My husband is Jewish, I am not, our kids are being raised Jewish which brings up all sorts of issues. People ask me often why I have chosen that, as I am the mother and technically I have “rights” to the religion of our children. However, long ago my husband and I spoke about it and we had decided that it would be easier for me to come to grips with the fact that our children would be brought up to believe that Jesus was not the Messiah. After all, I was told over and over that Jesus was a Jew. He went to synagogue and was devout to his faith, so the kids would simply be learning about his heritage. For my husband to have to deal with our children being taught that Jesus was the Messiah…well, he really couldn’t handle that. And since we wanted our children to be brought up in a faith, and preferably one faith (not being schlepped one week to church and the next week to temple) it just made sense to do it that way.

However, I really dislike the holidays. I dislike the fact that I have no idea what is going on. The first time we went “synagogue shopping” I immediately pulled out a pen to write something down. I had no idea that writing on both Shabbat and the Holidays was a big no-no. Oops. I feel like each week I run into some “oops” because there are so many rules, and an equal amount of loopholes for what is work and what is not. What is allowed and what is not. And since I refuse to convert because I firmly believe in what I believe, I don’t have any real desire to read the “Judiasm for Dummies” book we have. My husband isn’t even pressuring me, but I am at the synagogue a lot more often than he is. I drive the carpool, I take the kids to Sunday School, and I even maintain their website. Luckily this particular synagogue is very progressive and have a lot of interfaith families, and they are very understanding. But I keep feeling like I am going to mess something up.

I am going to try to insert a picture into this post, since I am so far behind! And of course I can’t find a picture that is interesting. I need to finish all the rest of the weeks by Yom Kippur, or it just won’t get done. Am I supposed to be doing tags yet? I did figure out my widgets issue, and just looked back at my homework and no…just have to do widgets this week. So I should be able to post this tomorrow and get on with week 4.

My cute heart

Thunder

I did not anticipate getting so behind in this class. I was going to spend the weekend catching up since I only have one child this weekend. Normally I have two (three if you count the husband) but my husband and son went camping this weekend for their semi-annual Cub Scout camping trip. They left on Friday and it was just my daughter and I.

Now we love these “girls weekends” as my daughter calls them. She is 8 and so she hasn’t hit those teenage years where she will want nothing to do with me. I spent the weekend sorting because with back to school and unexpected web design deadlines. Since I wasn’t the best organized to start with it all snowballed. So I had planned to organize and then start tackling items, but it ended with a bunch of organizing and very little tackling. I was determined to at least have every thing in its pile, so I went to bed about 2 hours later than I should. Then the thunder hit…and my daughter is *petrified* of thunder. It was very loud, very bright, and when it rains that hard I wish we didn’t have our skylights.

So I am not sure who is going to be more tired today, me or my husband.

My First Post

This is my “new blog” on my WordPress blog set up specifically for my LVS class. I am taking this class to improve my skills on blogging and learn more about what it is used for.

I really am getting lost finding blogs. I just saw one here that I just love:

http://goodenoughmom.us/

I just started looking and looking for blogs, and did a google search on “Good Mom Blogs.” This came up in the list and the first line on the current post started with “I have jumped into full meltdown mode with both feet. I’m in way over my head and am seriously drowning.” I have a full time job, a part time web design job, a husband, 2 kids – the 5th grader who just entered middle school and the 3rd grader who is still in elementary school. Life gets blown out of the water every single fall and I start getting into a groove usually right before Halloween.

I can’t seem to figure out why I keep getting a twitter login every time I click a page. Is it just me? Regardless, this class is a lot of fun so far.