May 05
your kid won't remember this
“What did you do on Pesach?” ask our “morahs”. (Every babysitter is a morah.) I eavesdrop eagerly, curious to hear what they'll highlight. The huge house filled with all their cousins? Their big cousin's Bar Mitzvah party? The kid Seder with Zaidy? “We drove in the car for a long time,” says the 4 year old. “We ate a LOT of chocolate,” says the 5 ¾ year old. All that work… the packing, the planning (the lists!!), the cooking, the expense… for them to remember this?? We drove to a house with a...