Rosh Hashana

Here is my 5-y-o waiting for Rosh Hashana to start. The Jewish New Year starts tonight at sundown. We will have a festive meal, and dip apples in honey for a sweet new year.

I sent out my greeting cards yesterday. Rosh Hashana cards to the Jewish friends and relatives, and "thinking of you" cards to everybody else. I enclosed 4 by 6 copies of the children's portrait from this summer (see bottom of blog). So I *do* send yearly greeting cards, but not in December.

Hanging Out

Here is a pic of my middle son, R***. He is proudly wearing his new pair of pajamas. The material was purchased by my daughter and I about 8 years ago. We had intended to sew matching sets of PJs for ourselves, but never got around to it. My housekeeper sometimes likes to do quiet things while she is here, as she can't be running and scrubbing 8 hours per day. So she did the sewing. Cute! The funny thing is, now we are so health conscious, the Coca Cola theme of the fabric raised my son's eyebrows at first. I figure I must be doing something right if he has that attitude towards soda.

Sunshine

"Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant." I love that saying by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. True in so many ways.

If there is evil in the world, let the sun shine on it. Publicize.

But what got me thinking this morning was the more literal translation. How do we keep our kids from getting sick every 2 seconds. As the cold and flu season approaches, there is one easy thing we can do.

One thing I always do is take a shopping cart from a sunny area. Usually one sitting warm out in the parking lot. This way I know that the warm surfaces are more clean of viruses/germs.

Another thing I do is to take my kids to outdoor parks instead of indoor play-places. Just the simple sun shining on the toys/slides makes the entire experience much cleaner.

And those are my sun-shiny thoughts this morning. ;-)