and all through the house, Mama goes crazy and the kids run amok. This weekend I have been doing a generally spring-cleaning and a Pesach cleaning. Why do I do them together? Because as I pull all the chometz out of the house, wiping down shelves and trying to make the apartment Pesach clean, we [...]
Archive for the ‘holidays’ Category
The week before Pesach
Posted in family, holidays, Judaism on April 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We are at the epicenter
Posted in Berlin, Cultural Differences, holidays, New Year's on January 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
of the firestorm of fireworks (or so it feels. Kreuzberg is probably worse, of course). So far it has been 40 minutes and it still continues unabated. An apartment kitty-corner to us just burnt out. It was amazing how fast it went. The firemen were here but they seemed to be moving in slow motion [...]
What I’ve been reading in links: a real hodge-podge, Chanukah, Recipes, Economics, Reading
Posted in cooking, Economics, holidays, Judaism, Recipes on December 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some healthier latke recipes (NYT). Smitten Kitchen’s Best Latke recipe. The Hanukah Market at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, with links to an exhibit on the conflation of Christmas and Chanukah. A Jewish Parent’s Guide to Christmas specials (in the US). What happened to Michael Vicks’ dogs… Weight loss without gimmicks(NYT). House parties about health [...]
Happy Walpurgis Nacht! And amazing political pumpkin templates.
Posted in Germany, holidays on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
picture credit The man who brought Halloween to Germany, and why. Check out these fabulous pumkin templates: Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin. These are even better: YesWeCarve
What I haven’t been blogging about.
Posted in Children, holidays, illness, the trivia of life on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s Friday night and the German has just left for the gym, I’m watching the season premiere of Pushing up Daisies, I have just cleaned the kitchen, my feet are up, and I am drinking Diet Light. The week has been exhausting and, as Germans would say, stressful. It started with Saturday’s mobbing and then [...]
I’m back in Berlin. Catching up, part 1.
Posted in Dear Friends, family, holidays, The USA, vacations, what we miss on August 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And I really need to fill in some of the blank spaces in my blogging, but I’m a bit afraid that if I wait until I start uploading pictures and getting ready to blog chronologically, I will be totally out of the habit and never start again. So, a quick run through. A 27 hour [...]
Duesseldorf
Posted in German sights, Germany, holidays, Picasa show, sightseeing, vacations, work on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, June 9th
It’s May, glorious May…
Posted in Berlin, Book club, Books, cooking, holidays on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Started out with a rain shower but ended crisp, clear and lovely. Went to another book club last night, to discuss the Tudors. Most of us had read The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory, which I greatly enjoyed. I have always had a thing for that period, from reading through Shakspeare’s histories (starting with [...]
Burning the chometz…
Posted in Berlin, blogging, holidays, Judaism on April 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Of course I can’t do that, as I have no place to actually burn it. But yesterday I packed most of the chometz in the flat up into boxes, finishing up this morning. I sealed the boxes and sold it (on-line. I love the Internet) and tomorrow morning I send the girls out with the [...]
It’s raining again…
Posted in ex-pat life, Exercise, Food, Health, holidays, Judaism, weather on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But of course, that’s no different from any other day here in Berlin. Yesterday had masses of dry time between the rain, so I ran over to pick up my tickets for second seder (held at a large hotel near here). I need haggadot (the ‘lesson plan’ for the Pesach meal) as well because I [...]
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