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Yay, I nearly have a final draft of my festivid! That will give me several days before I leave to clean it up and whatnot, with 2 days cushion when I get back for any final touches if need be. So this sucker is getting done and uploaded at some point between now and the deadline for sure (knock wood). I was not able to vid at all last night for reasons which I assure you that you would find ironically humorous if those reasons were not totally redacted. But I'm going to tell you what happened after reveals and you will laugh and laugh and laugh as I did.
Hanukkah is going awesome y'all. I was correct that the kids are loving it, and the fun just keeps on coming :D. I am glad, however, that I instituted a 'no keepsies' rule for dreidel, because I didn't want it to end in tears like the bloodbath version my brothers and I played as kids. Given there was almost a punch thrown even with no keepsies, I feel this was wise. It's amusing to me that the family tradition of being utterly vicious and unreasonably competitive carries on (no lie, I actually won't play most board games with friends because I want them to actually still like me after). But yes, FUN. And latkes. And candle lighting (I did decide to not do the prayers with the lighting after all). And we made cookies with these Hanukkah themed cookie cutters I got, and then bit the heads off the tasty, tasty Maccabees (really, who thought up *that* cutter). I'm so glad I decided to do this again. :D :D :D Though re-reading everything I just wrote, between the dreidel violence and the headless Maccabees...it sort of sounds like Hanukkah with a serial killer family. Ooops?
Hanukkah is going awesome y'all. I was correct that the kids are loving it, and the fun just keeps on coming :D. I am glad, however, that I instituted a 'no keepsies' rule for dreidel, because I didn't want it to end in tears like the bloodbath version my brothers and I played as kids. Given there was almost a punch thrown even with no keepsies, I feel this was wise. It's amusing to me that the family tradition of being utterly vicious and unreasonably competitive carries on (no lie, I actually won't play most board games with friends because I want them to actually still like me after). But yes, FUN. And latkes. And candle lighting (I did decide to not do the prayers with the lighting after all). And we made cookies with these Hanukkah themed cookie cutters I got, and then bit the heads off the tasty, tasty Maccabees (really, who thought up *that* cutter). I'm so glad I decided to do this again. :D :D :D Though re-reading everything I just wrote, between the dreidel violence and the headless Maccabees...it sort of sounds like Hanukkah with a serial killer family. Ooops?
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Finally somebody worse than us! We were banned from playing board games at all ever again after the Christmas where my sister and cousin got into a hair-pulling, scratching, biting, blood drawn fight over Monopoly. Fifteen years later, the collective parents are still enforcing it with an iron hand.
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