Nearly ready

We are having a party tonight in honour of Hannuckah. We usually celebrate it quietly and just with immediate family. Now that the children are older and have expressed in so many ways how proud they are of their heritage and religion we thought it would be a good thing to widen our celebrations. Tonight we have as many as fourty people coming round. Most are friends of the children, coming with their families, to help us celebrate.

On the menu are Latkes and doughnuts, plus drinks and nibbles!

Here is the table, the Chanukia in the middle is a tradiotional one, the "interesting" one on the right was made by Livi at Cheder (Hebrew school) and is supposed to be a castle. According to law, there have to be eight candles on one level together and one different - her different one is in the tower, which is unintentionally be very cooly, detatchable!
On the agenda are prayers and songs for lighting the candles, then dreidle and Supermario races on the wii!

The table is in the music room, but instruments are good decoration for any festival!

The house is clean and we are nearly ready. Before the friends arrive we will exchange presents and have a quick private celebration.

And yes, we do have Christmas trees, two of them in fact.
The children know what is what, no confusion between the religions or traditions, so we decided to let them have a bit of fun and be the same as everyone else!

Happy Hannuckah, Merry Christmas.