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Here’s my post from 2006, and it includes my posts from 2005.
5768, eh?
The meal this year: salad, melon, apples and honey, baked and roasted chicken, squash souffle, homemade mac and cheese, the requisite chicken nuggets for my youngest, homemade apple pie, vanilla ice cream, Kosher wine, organic grape juice, enormous round challah, flowers. Nothing big or fancy. Next week I’ll do the roast beef, kugel and matzo ball soup since we’ll be having a couple of guests.
Wow. I still can’t believe that I’m writing 2007 on my checks and here it’s almost 2008.
This year, I hope success for my children. Which, to me, means happiness in their daily life – getting along with friends, learning, liking learning, feeling good about themselves, being healthy. For those who’ve been reading a while, you know that we’ve had our minor triffles with each of those things, but, as I wrote in this piece, I approach every day, every new year, every coming and going almost, as though it can and it will be the next good thing, better than whatever might have gone before that wasn’t all that. Because it just wasn’t all that. Yet.
What will be all that for me this year?
First, my husband and I celebrate 17 years of knowing each other next Friday, on Kol Nidre. So I hope that we’re entering another all that period of life, especially since we’ve survived our first bar mitzvah. Talk about oy.
Second, I want to breakthrough a wretched habit I’ve had since I was a young girl which I won’t reveal but I will say that the blogging has led me to multiple, fabulous opportunities to finally break free from a truly debilitating disability that I’m working very, very hard to tackle. I’ll let you know next year if I beat it. I will say that I’m improved, but not yet there.
Finally, peace. Oh God help us get to peace. When I think about the world my kids will reference when they say, “When I was a kid,” I shudder and get chills. It is never too late. It can be that new morning anytime we choose. We can do that. But we have got to agree on how.
I will pray this holiday season for all of us to have strength to do what we have to do to get us there.
L’shana tovah.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:12 pm September 12th, 2007 in Jewish, Judaism
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Good Yom Tov. L’shana tovah. May the year be full of sweetness for you and your family. Baruch Ashem.
Thank you, Roland. V’atah.
L’shana Tovah from the Libava family to yours, Jill.
Joel
Jill –
I come from a different religious tradition, but deeply respect and admire yours. Best of the year to you and your family, all friends, and followers of your faith wherever they may be. And may I be so bold as to offer a toast, and a prayer: Peace and goodwill to all mankind.
L’shana tovah Jill and may many of your wishes and hopes come true. Especially peace.
Happy New Year to you and yours. May your year be sweet.
Your dinner sounds fabulous.
And to the Libava clan as well. (And just blog whatever you want, Joel!)
Bill – from your keyboard to everyone on that wish. Thanks very much for the sentiments.
Thanks, Carole. And to you. PS – I’m really loving your posts lately. They’re among the 30+ open tabs I keep imagining I’m going to get to!
Hi Muffet – I hope you had a good holiday and may we all be inscribed in the book of lice, I mean life for another year.