Hannukah

It seems we've a new tradition. A couple of years ago, Michael brought home a menorah. As Unitarian Universalists, we honor and respect the customs of all major religions, and so, while hoping we don't offend, we have fun in celebrating outside of our own traditional holidays. It's been 3 years now that we've been celebrating Hannukah...reading children's picture books and making latkes and lighting the menorah. This year, Fiona made up a song, Oh Hannukah, to the tune of Oh Christmas Tree, so I pulled out the real Hannukah Song and we've been learning that, in addition to singing her quite cute version.

We've been sitting around the table, watching the candles burn down, singing Hannukah songs with our bellies full of latkes...and starting to feel almost comfortable with it in this our third year...

Actually, it's only the theoretical, that idea of celebrating other religions' customs. I think this is the only one so far, but we're open to the idea and are finding it quite fun! Fiona's recently read the Rebecca American Girl books (about a young Jewish girl in 1914 New York--one of the books centered on Hannukah) and has asked Santa for an American Girl doll for Christmas, so we'll see if he brings it (and, yes, I'm definitely thinking Rebecca). Talk about mixing up your customs! :)