40th Anniversary

What a lovely weekend this has been. David and I have celebrated our 40th Anniversary with most of our children with us. Unfortuantely Amy and Stephen were unable to join us, however, we know they were with us in spirit! The "youngins" sponsored the Kiddush at the synagogue, which was such a lovely surprise. There were many of the usual treats but what made it very special were the large bowls of cereal that were placed on the tables. This was definitely a novel treat and specially done for David who loves a bowl of cereal after services! David did the Haftorah and was superb! Then back to the house for soup and summer rolls, a definite "Jewish" tradition after synagogue! More details to follow! Saturday night we celebrated New Year's Eve early with Marlene, Mandeep, Matthew, Rachel, Grammie, Grandma, Rebecca, Steve and Talia. What fun; each person was given several letters of the alaphabet and asked to prepare food using those letters. Very delicious. Appetizers, Baby articchokes and carrot, swiss chard, hmm, I have forgotten D for the moment, edamame, fuiji apples, forgot G, hummus, Islandic Scotch, apricot jam cake, kugel, long grain rice, Matthew's rugelach, forgot N, O and P, quiona, red cabbage, salmon, Tofu stir fry (which we did not make because we had so much food!) no U or V, walnut pie with chocolate chips! We ignored the rest of the letters. It was a lot of fun! Lots of leftovers for the rest of the weekend!