Wednesday, December 28, 2005

The Festival of Lights

I love Chanukah. It was my Grandfather's favorite holiday. He passed away on erev (the night before) Chanukah. While we were sitting shiva the lights went out during minyan. We took this as a sign that Grandpop was ready to light the Chanukah candles :) For those of you who don't know... Chanukah is the Festival of Lights. You can read the whole story Here. Last night I went spaving with my Mom. Spaving is spending + saving = spaving. At our local grocery store, if you spend a certain amount of money you get certain percentages off one entire grocery order. She got the maximum 50% off so we bought every bottle of formula (35 bottles) and 3 cases of diapers, 2 grosses of wipes and a ton of other stuff for under $200! Woo hoo! One of the other things Mom got was a Chanukia. The Chanukia is the candelabra that you use to light the Chanukah candles. She bought if for Dylan so last night we lit the candles on Dylan's own Chanukia. It was wonderful. Ok, Dylan's yelling for my attention. Catch you all later!

10 comments:

  1. Anonymous8:37 AM

    Missed you guys Monday! Hope everything's GREAT and Chanukah has been a blast and oh yeah. Thanks so much for the nomination. You are such a sweetheart! L, C

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  2. Anonymous9:21 AM

    I love Chanukah too. I am not Jewish but my boyfriend is. I love lighting the candles each night. I bet Dylan loves to watch the lights. And Yay for the savings.

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  3. Happy Chanukah to Dylan and his Mom and Dad!

    It's so exciting to read about you lighting candles with him, and buying him FORMULA and WIPES! OMG, you are home with your son!

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  4. Thanks Julie and Happy Chanukah.

    Isn't it fun to buy diapers, wipes, and formula? Great savings by the way, I want to go spaving.

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  5. Anonymous8:04 PM

    I love the word "spaving"! That's great. I spave a lot and didn't even realize it.

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  6. Anonymous2:24 AM

    Thanks for providing some education about Judiasm. I learned a few things I didn't know. Very nice.

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  7. Anonymous2:27 AM

    Oops, I see I misspelled "Judaism".

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  8. Happy Chanukah!

    I am learning so much from you! Thanks for the great links.

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  9. I just got all caught up on your blog. I am so, so, so happy for you and your husband! Dylan sounds like such a sweetheart and I'm glad everything is so wonderful!! Congratulations and have a very Happy Chanukah.

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