Passover Weekend

 
It has been a full and fun weekend with the start of Passover on Friday night.  Passover doesn't always fall at exactly the same time as Easter every year, but this year it happened to start on Good Friday which made it convenient because everyone was off of work and feeling festive!

Poor Paul has been feeling absolutely awful for the past few days with yet another bad virus.  I kept hoping that he would magically jump out of bed and say that he was feeling better, but quickly realized that it looked like Syd and I were on our own this year!  Friday night we went to Paul's brother's house for first night of Pesach.  It was fun to see Syd's cousin Dana who is expecting her first baby mid-July.  I couldn't help but think back to Passover three years ago when I was just a few weeks pregnant.  Seems like just yesterday!

Sydney was such a good girl during dinner.  She and another wee guest, Sasha, snacked on matzah and celery for the first part of the Seder before dinner was served and seemed to enjoy the singing and reading.  I was so proud of Sydney, she was so well behaved despite the late evening!

The second Seder was at Paul's nephew's house, what a fantastic time we had!  Sydney played with another little guest, Chloe, who shares the exact same birth date as Syd!  They were so cute together playing with the doll house and cars in the living room while the adults made their way through the Haggadah.  Sydney wore her tulip dress that was given to us as a gift when she was born.  It is a size 2 and I remember thinking way back when she was just a little newborn, that she would wear it to Passover dinner when she was two years old.  At long last, we cracked it out of the closet yesterday and she got the chance to wear it!!  She looked so sweet!

Every year I grow to love the Passover Seders more and more.  It is such a wonderful time of recounting the miraculous hand of God in delivering the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt thousands of years ago.  I love recounting the story each year and remembering.  I am grateful to have the time to stop and be thoughtful at this time of year and am so glad that Sydney can be surrounded by family and tradition.  It really was a wonderful weekend!