On 9/22/06 6:53 AM, "Cheryl Isaak" wrote:

On 9/22/06 9:33 AM, in article, "Mirjam
Bruck-Cohen" wrote:


To all of you who celebrate our New year , and To every other Person who
also can always use some good wishes

Shana Tova =Happy new Jewish Year 5767

mirjam

Haifa the Beautiful City of Israel.

And the same to you - Shana Tova!

Shana tovah to all, may this New Year bring sweetness to all of our lives,
and some peace throughout the world.

I was thinking about the meaning of the new year - a time to reflect on
things, look forward, think back. We're having something between 16 & 20
people over for holiday dinner tomorrow night. The builder just had a
temporary floor installed in the DR - so tonight DH and I will be moving the
DR furniture back into the DR, the new unfinished (that I'm getting ready to
stain) desk for DH, and cabinets for great room, into the LR, rounding up
every chair we can, doing lots of cleaning. So, I guess my first New Year
efforts will be getting the house cleaned. It's a nice thing - having so
many people together.

We share our holidays with 2 other couples, their children. Have done so
for 21 years - wow. It's an interesting crew - as we tend to invite various
and sundry other friends, colleagues - to join us. This year we've got
another recent college grad (friend of goddaughter), a former colleague of
professor (mother of godchildren, wife of my grad school office mate) friend
(who now just split from wife), a hockey ref colleague of ours who's for the
first time alone for the holidays (and turning 30 on Tuesday - hmmmm - not
toooo old for the goddaughter), the ex-wife (& mother of children) of the
husband in couple 2 (who is coming with wife 2 whom we all adore), the
ex-wife's boyfriend, 2 of their 3 kids (including the typical almost 16 yr
old girl, and the emotionally troubled but not in the arrestable way 20 year
old), the 17 yr old god-daughter 2, the 11 yr old with her own ADHD issues
(looks 13, acts 8), our younger friends with their 9 month old (teething),
and, well, at this point I Have no idea anymore. It'll certainly be
interesting.

Of course - I just got e-mail from the dad in couple 2 - that his kids would
find the proposed stuffed cabbage main course "out there" - so I should make
chicken as well. Guess I'm switching the main course to honey-ginger chicken
or brisket. Did I mention that all our dishes are in storage (except some
corelle)? And now I can't find either chest of silver - but at least we have
the nice set of stainless we splurged on for the new house. So, we're
having the huge dinner - on lovely paper plates - but with real silverware.
And I got the party pack of 18 wine glasses at Costco.

Hopefully no one minds the kind of mess that will surround us in the rest of
the house. And it'll be a memorable New Year celebration. I just wonder who
else might just show - or have I missed inviting someone????

L'shana tova,
ellice