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And also to practice identifying triangles and words that start with the letter S, of course. She was very excited to tell me it's a "Dooiss" star, and I corrected her with the phrase "Star of David" - yes, Ana, David like David in your class, but not exactly.
It's interesting how these things stick with you. She swung her star a bit, Evangeline, and said "Hanukkah, Hanukkah", so I pulled her on my lap on the rocking chair and sang "Oh Hanukkah" with her, which we sang *every* year during winter when I was in Brooklyn. (We had more Jewish students in my class than I think either Ana or Evangeline does now, so it made more sense, but whatever.) And when we moved to Staten Island, the schools here didn't do that, they had other songs they did. So it's been a good 16, 17 years since I've sung or heard this song - but I was still word perfect.
Clicky!
Of course, when Evangeline was a baby I used to entertain myself by going "Oh, baby, baby, baby, I made her out of clay, and when I'm good and ready, with baby I shall play", which... didn't make sense even then, but it's a catchy melody to be sure. When I was a kid, they'd hand out these little plastic dreidles for us at the Holiday Party (or around Hanukkah if it was very early in the month, and then our party would be at the end of the month), and those chocolate coins, gelt. And now they sell those chocolate coins with Santa on them, presumably for Christmas, which just strikes me as either the ultimate in cross-cultural sharing or WRONG WRONG WRONG VERY WRONG. Not sure which.
It's interesting how these things stick with you. She swung her star a bit, Evangeline, and said "Hanukkah, Hanukkah", so I pulled her on my lap on the rocking chair and sang "Oh Hanukkah" with her, which we sang *every* year during winter when I was in Brooklyn. (We had more Jewish students in my class than I think either Ana or Evangeline does now, so it made more sense, but whatever.) And when we moved to Staten Island, the schools here didn't do that, they had other songs they did. So it's been a good 16, 17 years since I've sung or heard this song - but I was still word perfect.
Clicky!
Of course, when Evangeline was a baby I used to entertain myself by going "Oh, baby, baby, baby, I made her out of clay, and when I'm good and ready, with baby I shall play", which... didn't make sense even then, but it's a catchy melody to be sure. When I was a kid, they'd hand out these little plastic dreidles for us at the Holiday Party (or around Hanukkah if it was very early in the month, and then our party would be at the end of the month), and those chocolate coins, gelt. And now they sell those chocolate coins with Santa on them, presumably for Christmas, which just strikes me as either the ultimate in cross-cultural sharing or WRONG WRONG WRONG VERY WRONG. Not sure which.
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Date: 2009-12-19 08:52 pm (UTC)Mmm. Streit's. You tell her I'm Dooiss too and my middle name is David. Did you all ever find that book Rufus M by E. Estes or has she got her library card yet?
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Date: 2009-12-21 05:11 pm (UTC)No, and, to make it worse, I was unable to get even the smallest truffle from the Christmas fair yesterday when I went to do my shopping :(
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Date: 2009-12-21 08:36 pm (UTC)Although I still find it incredibly odd that the Christian families would string up all these lights and most of the Jewish families didn't. The lights really have nothing to do with Christmas and are purely about the commercialization of Christmas and enjoyment of lights. Hanukkah is "The Festival of Lights", yet... I may never get that one.
I do think stringing up lights during the winter is a fairly nice idea, because the darkness can make people's moods worse. Although I think the stringing up of blinky lights should be stopped. I have a crusade against flashing and flickering lights of all forms. Usually this focuses on bad flourescents (sp sorry lost on the spelling here), but there is one special time of the year where I want to smash people's decorations.
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Date: 2009-12-21 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-12-22 06:53 pm (UTC)*thinks*
Actually, I suppose I might have known it, because you just pick this stuff up. I know about a surprising number of Catholic saints, for example, and I've yet to figure out WHY.
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Date: 2009-12-22 10:15 pm (UTC)Although I'm really glad I didn't have to celebrate Christmas every year. I quite like participating in a Christmas celebration now and then. I've enjoyed a few of the ones I've been to. But celebrating it every year is just way more often than I like, and then I find it incredibly annoying rather than fun. I've already gotten to decorate a tree at a friend's house, and I liked it, but I would find it tedious to do annually.
Much as I like Halloween, but I don't want to celebrate it every year. I can't really think of any celebration that I want to celebrate every single year. New Year's comes closest, but that's just because if I had the money and willingness, I could celebrate by going to a party in Kentucky that would have some of my friends that I don't get to see too often at it. But even that, I'm not sure I'm up for it every year, and I'm skipping this year.
Although someday I should decorate eggs. I've never done that. Although for missing holiday experiences, I'd still rather build a sukkah and decorate it. But I have built forts and I have gone camping.
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Date: 2009-12-19 09:44 pm (UTC)Which scans better? Whichever does is probably the original. But I can't tell because my meter-perception is abnormal.
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Date: 2009-12-21 05:14 pm (UTC)When we were little, we used to stop by the shop where you got your skates and skate guards - this was back when Sky Rink made sense instead of just being attached to Chelsea Piers and not, y'know, up in the sky somewhere - and the guy who worked there would give us the cast of ends of the skate guards. There were glittery ones and translucent ones and hard ones, and they were fine to use as building tools or just to have or to trade.
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Date: 2009-12-20 01:40 am (UTC)Trixie trixie trixie, I made you out of milk
Trixie trixie trixie, you and all your ilk.
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Date: 2009-12-21 05:15 pm (UTC)But I couldn't sing that, we don't have a Trixie. We don't even have a copy of Knuffle Bunny* and must keep borrowing it from the library.
*He's writing a third one!!!!
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Date: 2009-12-20 05:36 am (UTC)Is it bad that the first thing I thought was "Wonder Woman's mom made *her* out of clay!"?
Also it feels like culture shock that kids would be drawing Stars of David in school. I'm in a primarily Catholic area, so that's my default of seeing others. (Despite not even being Catholic myself.)
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Date: 2009-12-20 07:16 am (UTC)