Happy Chanukka and Happy Thanksgiving!

Here is a really cute song I saw online:

Thanksgivukkah, Thanksgivukkah,

Come light the menurkey

Let's have a party

With latkes and turkey
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Maccabbees and Pilgrims

Americans and Jews

Thankfulness and freedom

The lessons we choose

So come spin the dreidel,

And lighting the candles we gloat.

Hearts skip a beat

For we know soon we'll eat

Pumpkin pie and some sufganiot!

Hearts skip a beat

For we know soon we'll eat

Pumpkin pie and some sufganiot!

Thanksgivukkah, Thanksgivukkah,

A joyous occasion

Everyone join in

This rare celebration

Lift up high your voices

With songs and with cheers.

The next one won't come for

79 thousand years.

 
Tonight is the first night of Hanukka. And of course tomorrow is Thanksgiving. As a Jew, I celebrate Hanukka every year of course, I just find it amusing that everyone is crazy over the overlap of the two holidays. I guess something that happens this rarely should be made a big deal of. It certainly is nice not to be competing with Christmas, which it usually falls out on. And it is also nice to have the double message of Thanks. Well tomorrow evening, of course we will be having our joint Hanukka and Thanksgiving party, Thanksgivukka as everyone is calling it. 

 I made these doughnuts, a traditional Chanukka food that we all love to eat. They came out AMAZING!  But it was really hard work, I need a good break until next year.

                                     The Menorah lit on the eighth night of Channuka!

My little boy ready to light the Menorah with his daddy. 

We include everyone in this celebration. 

 Last week we took fall pictures with our family. I am in love with how they came out, so I made a little collage with some of my favorite photos. I am obsessing a little over how to print them, which to enlarge, where to hang them in our home. My last pictures I hung up were the ones we took when my two year old son was 7 months old. It's time for an update:) 

Click to see it in larger:)

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The actual photo shoot was really fun, we had a great photographer who was so good with our son. We had some special daddy/son, daddy/daughter, mother/daughter, mother/son moments that were beautiful and I was glad to catch them on camera. 

I hope to take many pictures of my kids as they grow up so they can see the story of their life. I personally enjoy looking at pictures of my childhood, I cherish the photos as they help me hold on to so many memories.