Happy Hanukkah!

Last night we celebrated the first night of Hanukkah. We twisted the candles on our snazzy new electric menorah from Grandpa, Mike sang a prayer, and the kids opened their first gifts. we had a chat about what it means to be Jewish and the members of our family that are Jewish. Henry all of the sudden got a strange look on his face and said, "But the Jewish people killed Jesus!" Thus began a complicated religious history lesson, a rite of passage shared by all dual-religion families.
Then we gave them both gold coins made of chocolate and all was forgotten. Ahh, the peace-building qualities of chocolate.



This picture is from tonight- the second candle is lit.