Our Seder Table

We had a seder this year.  Saturday, second night.  I haven't done that for quite a few years.  You need daughter power to pull it off.  So Naomi's back in town.  Let's do it.  So Naomi made the dessert, Danny made the hard boiled eggs.  Susanna was assigned the matza ball soup (her favorite).  She was a little concerned about getting it done.  I suggested that she bring the ingredients on Saturday morning plus some chicken broth and we would make it day of.  She did and it all worked out great, we had a very nice time.  The soup came out great; everybody agreed.  We made six packets of matza balls, quite a quantity and they came out wonderfully also.  They were gone the next day.

Kolhaneshema (a local congrgation) finds people who need seders.  We took advantage of that a few years ago.  So I wrote back again and said I would host a few people.  So Kelly came over (supposed to bring her 99 year old mom but didn't).  We had 11 total which was a good number.

I'm thinking of heeding my mother's advice.  When she held seders, she had a full chicken liver and gefilte fish course (which we don't) and then skip to the desert.  Nobody misses the main course.  It's an idea.  Because I still have a bunch of brisket left.

The whole thing turned out fun.  We ate lots of food.  We had grape juice but Nancy had brought some bottled tea and more people preferred that.  We went through the whole thing.  Susanna and Naomi insisted in searching for the afikomen.

When I ask my children which holiday they preferred when they were young, they all said Passover.

Dennis surveying his good work.  He thought everybody should have at one big table.  So he took our table we bought right after agreed to get married.  Which we bought from the Gerber dump, it was antique bright orange.  Naomi had it for awhile in Arizona but it's back.  Then he took a side table from his parents that was just about the same height.  He actually taped them together.  Put a tablecloth on it and nobody knows. 

Naomi came and shined the silver (notice candlesticks)

The big vase of flowers?  Danny bought me that big vase.  I never thought I would have enough flowers to put in it.  But when you do, it looks so full the way it's shaped.